G3 iMac of any use?

[disconap]

Just to add to all the positives, we have an indigo imac in the office that our interns use, it's perfect for anything not too intensive (I actually think it runs Filemaker and browsers better than my sawtooth). We use it mostly for music and for data entry, email, and web browsing. But follow the advice in this thread--up the RAM! Also, I never suggest running anything higher than 10.2 on a G3 (unless you have at least a gig of RAM)--no steadfast rule, I've just found that the later OSs tend to be processor hogs, and sometimes the G3s seem to struggle with them. Again, just advice, and I'm sure there are plenty of people on here who would argue with me on that...

 

[Dustintendo]

my parents have a snow 700mhz g3 imac that they bought on ebay not too long ago... it needs a new hard drive though, as the one in it is very noisy

 

[DakotaGuy]

I have 2 of them in my 5th grade classroom along with some PC's. They are the last 2 Macs left in the school. One is a Blueberry DV 400Mhz and the other is an Indigo DV 450Mhz. The Blueberry has 320MB of RAM and the Indigo has 512MB of RAM. Both have 10.3.9 on them. The kids love them and we have to draw names to see who gets to use the "cool" computers and who has to use the PC's. It is funny.

 

[senseibiz]

I have a question..... My friend purchased an imac snow 500mhz.
he wants to purchase a wireless router that would work with it.
right now its running the lates os x. he would like to get a wireless router to hook up the xbox 360 wirelessly with the xbox adpater.
I don't think he wants to spend $200 on the airport extreme base station.

any ideas on wich wireless router he can use with the imac.

your help is appreciated..

 

[disconap]

Pretty much every base station wll work with Airport or any other wireless network. Just go down to Best Buy or your local electronics store, grab the one you want, and ask a salesman if it's Mac compatible (geenrally they are).

As for routers, the imac used the original airport card, which sells for around $120 now that it's discontinued. But you can use many different kinds of wireless networking solutions; there are knock off versions of that, PCI cards (pointless for you, of course) or the easiest solution ($45-75, depending where you find it) is the D-link DWL122 (I use it with our imac, it works quite well). There are other models, but I haven't tested them...

 

[yoak]

Just a little update.
I don´t work in this place anylonger as I´freelancing, so I sent the tech guy a sms today asking if the would part with their iMac now since the finacial year is over. (They had to keep them in storage for book keeping reasons).
Good news, he was ready to "serve" me an iMac as he so kindly put it. I can pick it up in the next couple of days

PS Since this thread was started, I have ordered 20" iMac that I expect on my door in the next couple of days. Where to put them all

 

[sunfast]

Just a little update.
I don´t work in this place anylonger as I´freelancing, so I sent the tech guy a sms today asking if the would part with their iMac now since the finacial year is over. (They had to keep them in storage for book keeping reasons).
Good news, he was ready to "serve" me an iMac as he so kindly put it. I can pick it up in the next couple of days

PS Since this thread was started, I have ordered 20" iMac that I expect on my door in the next couple of days. Where to put them all

You've fallen on your feet there. Wish my work had old macs lying around

 

[yoak]

I know, it´s amazing.
They had anotherone next to it (older tray loading) quite beaten up. It felt sad to see them there, so I´m glad I could give one of them a new home.
I´m thinking of putting it into my daughters room, she´s only 6 months, but better get used to mac´s I suppose

 

[yoak]

I think I have forgot to mention that I did boot it up and everything seemed fine. No keyboard was connected so I only saw that everything came up on the screen. Guess it´s good enough for now

 

[aquajet]

P.S. I've only seen one poster on MR who ever had a 700mhz iMac G3. Would love to see one of those up close.

I used to have one. It looks just like any other slotload iMac.

 

[yoak]

That machine will run the latest OS, can take up to 1 gig of ram, you could upgrade the hard drive too if you wanted. What to use it for depends. It could be a music server, secondary computer in another room. Nice little machine really. i've got an older iMac than that and it still works fine for what I need it to do.

Excuse my ignorance, but I never had more than one computer before. How would I go about to use it as a music server?
From what I understand the Graphite iMac has at least 13gig HD, so I could quite a bit of music on it