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Best place or website to buy an iMac G3?

Check pawn shops. There's bound to be an idiot pawn broker in your area that had one brought into him and didn't think to check out how powerful it was, bought it for $100, and is now desperate to get rid of it.

I just love how stupid people can be. They see an iMac and no matter how old it is, they assume it's modern.
 
Found a few cool macs at pawn shops, the prices there weren't so great. I've actually picked up a G3 tower from the side of the road before. Other than that, I'd check goodwill - you never know what they have.
 
The thrift shop near where I live had a slot-loading blue iMac for 30 bucks. You might try looking at such a place.
 
Sometimes, school districts will be upgrading and getting rid of old iMacs. I'm typing this right now on a snow iMac G3 600 MHz with 10.4.11 that my landlord gave me for free. He got it from someone he knows that takes them off the local school's hands. Some places have rules that don't allow school-property computer equipment to be sold, however, so YMMV. Sometimes the ones that can't sell them will be willing to give them away. More than one person I know has gotten a Mac that way.
As far as websites go, I'm seriously considering buying an eMac from an eBay seller. Just makes sure they have a DOA policy, good reviews, and shipping that isn't horridly inflated.
 
MrCheeto said:
Check pawn shops. There's bound to be an idiot pawn broker in your area that had one brought into him and didn't think to check out how powerful it was, bought it for $100, and is now desperate to get rid of it.

I just love how stupid people can be. They see an iMac and no matter how old it is, they assume it's modern.
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Except he's going to be asking $130 for it so he doesn't lose money. I would suggest checking out garage sales and estate sales.
 
Um, you can buy them on Craigslist for $20 each, all day long.

10 seconds of surfing found me this-

Apple iMac G3 Model M5521 - $50 (Chandler)

500MHZ
512MB
20GB
CD-RW
OS X 10.4.11

Here's another 450Mhz for $40-

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quantum003 said:
Um, you can buy them on Craigslist for $20 each, all day long.

10 seconds of surfing found me this-

Apple iMac G3 Model M5521 - $50 (Chandler)

500MHZ
512MB
20GB
CD-RW
OS X 10.4.11

Here's another 450Mhz for $40-

3na3mc3p55O15W25R3a6607bed805d29f1312.jpg


3kb3o73l05Y05Z05R0a66c7e7e41df8e71486.jpg
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Maybe in your area not mine.
 
That's what I try to tell people, too, but they insist that it is not my location, but that I'm, quote, "Doing it wrong!"

XD
 
MrCheeto said:
That's what I try to tell people, too, but they insist that it is not my location, but that I'm, quote, "Doing it wrong!"

XD
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Haha exactly people need to understand that there's many area's in the world lol.
 
What are you looking for specifically? Working or not? Slot loading or tray? Something you can actually use for mail and web surfing or just a collection piece? Color preference? What part of VA are you from? I've got a bunch of G3 iMacs and I may get rid of a few.
 
The iMac's firmware is stored on the same card that holds the CPU and memory chips.Then update the firmware in the other iMac.When the Mac didn't anything at all,I played with the memory.Put out a slat en placed another.The the Mac start up from hard disk,but no screen.
 
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