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macgeek18

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So I was in an Intel only phase and didn't power on the PPCs for awhile. Well I booted up my iMac G4 and was playing an old game on it and got tired of the lag with only 768MB of RAM in that old girl. It's a 1Ghz G4 my most powerful PPC except for the eMac 1.42 that barely gets used. Well I went off the deep end on OWC and ordered 2GB of RAM for the iMac and 2GB RAM for the eMac and put the eMac in the bedroom. I even ran a 150' ethernet cable to the bedroom from my desk to the dresser for the eMac and ordered a USB wireless keyboard and mouse for it. So I put my entire DVD collection on an external drive and plugged it in and hooked up some speakers to it. So now I can watch movies on the eMac and just waiting for the RAM to arrive. Also ordered a dual 2.7 G5 and RAM upgrades for that for my main PPC setup at my desk. my wife is thrilled..... The only bummer is to justify the G5 I told my wife I was going to get rid of the parts iMacs I have. So goodbye to the ten variously messed up Intel iMacs in the closet. I love PPC. I started with them and I can't just let go of how amazing they are.
 
These days with the LCS leaks, and my not wanting to rebuild another one, I opt for the best Air Cooled system I could get. Early 2005 dual 2.0GHz is what I ended up with. Free at that, which was nice!

Enjoy the eMac more my friend! Hope you got one of those cool acrylic swivel stands for it!
 
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