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musika

musika

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Hey all

I just ordered myself a nice little iMac G4 15 inch, 1 Ghz, 512 MB of RAM, 80 GB Hard drive on Amazon for $55 (+$20 shipping). Just for my collection/love of the design and also I'll keep it in my room for music, light browsing, email, documents. Not my main computer of course.

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How does this sound for $55? I'm absolutely stoked to get this thing, come this Friday. I'll update you guys and girls with my setup come Friday.

Cheers!
 
One thing I love about Apple is just this. No matter how old they are, they're still exciting and fun to use.

I once used a G3 iMac as an alarm clock and jukebox. I miss the darn thing :(

Excuse me, gotta finish shoveling these 5-year-old HP's into the trash.
 
Looks like a nice iMac G4! I have one, pretty much exactly the same spec's except mine has a 17" LCD. It's awesome to use and it hasn't given me any real problems at all. It boots up really fast as well, so I use it quite frequently to check email and such. Mine runs Tiger 10.4.11 as well.

As far as browsing, it does fine. Youtube is OK at 240p, but if you try to go higher it tends to get a little choppy (but thats expected). All the other sites I use seem to do OK. I'm sure adding additional RAM would help (I think the 1GHz models can go up to 2GB) but I haven't got around to it yet.

Congrats again on your purchase! :apple:
 
That's a great deal for an iMac G4. Be sure to upgrade it to 2GB of RAM to milk the most performance out it. I used to have a 17" 1.25GHz iMac G4 and I wish I still had it today. Congrats on the good deal.
 
92WardSenatorFE said:
Looks like a nice iMac G4! I have one, pretty much exactly the same spec's except mine has a 17" LCD. It's awesome to use and it hasn't given me any real problems at all. It boots up really fast as well, so I use it quite frequently to check email and such. Mine runs Tiger 10.4.11 as well.

As far as browsing, it does fine. Youtube is OK at 240p, but if you try to go higher it tends to get a little choppy (but thats expected). All the other sites I use seem to do OK. I'm sure adding additional RAM would help (I think the 1GHz models can go up to 2GB) but I haven't got around to it yet.

Congrats again on your purchase! :apple:
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Awesome! I can't wait to set it up and all. I won't be installing flash on it, as I'm sure it'll be worlds more stable as an HTML 5 player.

I just adore the design of these things, it's stunning.
 
iDecker said:
One thing I love about Apple is just this. No matter how old they are, they're still exciting and fun to use.

I once used a G3 iMac as an alarm clock and jukebox. I miss the darn thing :(

Excuse me, gotta finish shoveling these 5-year-old HP's into the trash.
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I couldn't agree more. It's so much fun.
 
congrats on your purchase. i agree with everyone else on the love for old school Macs. my MDD g4 is highly used in my set up. i'm actually streaming WWE Raw on it as we speak. this thing is greaaaat
 
ghett0tech said:
congrats on your purchase. i agree with everyone else on the love for old school Macs. my MDD g4 is highly used in my set up. i'm actually streaming WWE Raw on it as we speak. this thing is greaaaat
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Sounds great! I had to look up the MDD, I embarrassingly didn't know what you were talking about (Mirror Door Drive PowerMac G4). The first thing Google was showing me was MDD - Major Depressive Disorder. Not something I associate with Macs! It's great your machine is running so incredibly!
 
musika said:
Sounds great! I had to look up the MDD, I embarrassingly didn't know what you were talking about (Mirror Door Drive PowerMac G4). The first thing Google was showing me was MDD - Major Depressive Disorder. Not something I associate with Macs! It's great your machine is running so incredibly!
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i did get lucky. i'm about to pair it up to a 22" Apple Cinema Display.. i have the studio display right now, can't wait to get the 22". check out the pic i just posted on the mac setups photo thread.. best display apple ever made
 
musika said:
Hey all

I just ordered myself a nice little iMac G4 15 inch, 1 Ghz, 512 MB of RAM, 80 GB Hard drive on Amazon for $55 (+$20 shipping). Just for my collection/love of the design and also I'll keep it in my room for music, light browsing, email, documents. Not my main computer of course.

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How does this sound for $55? I'm absolutely stoked to get this thing, come this Friday. I'll update you guys and girls with my setup come Friday.

Cheers!
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great find!
which seller did you use as I would love to have one at that price!
 
csixty4 said:
That's a great price for one of those. When I was looking for one to add to my collection a year ago, I rarely found one under $150.
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Yeah all the others I saw on Amazon were going for hundreds. I actually started looking, gave up because it was too expensive, so I was browsing for an old iPod nano 2nd gen (almost completing my nano collection!), and decided to once more check up on the iMacs and found this little guy and was just so excited!
 
musika said:
Yeah all the others I saw on Amazon were going for hundreds. I actually started looking, gave up because it was too expensive, so I was browsing for an old iPod nano 2nd gen (almost completing my nano collection!), and decided to once more check up on the iMacs and found this little guy and was just so excited!
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so; did this person have more then one?
where are you? US? Canada?
 
wrinkster22 said:
great find!
which seller did you use as I would love to have one at that price!
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The seller is Smith100 on Amazon. But that was the only iMac he was selling. He's selling a couple other old Apple hardware but they are selling for a little higher than what I bought the iMac for.
 
musika said:
That's the only one he's selling, unfortunately! I'm in the US. I wish you the best of luck in your journey in finding one of these! Keep us posted!
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Ha thanks :)
the problem is most of the American Sellers won't ship one to canada :(
I would love a 15"
1) because it is cool
2) because I am a fanboy
3) it would be the perfect media player (with my external HD)
 
Good find. I suggest putting Leopard on it with 2Gb of ram and a new hard drive. The stock hard drives are a bit on the slow side. When opening it up, make sure you replace the heat sink grease on the mount points. It is very important that you do that. Also when inside, you might want to replace the PRAM battery so you don't have to open it up again.

For a browser, I suggest TenFourFox. It's really fast on G4 Macs and kept up to date. Media playback wise, I suggest VLC 1.1.12, the new 2.0 version isn't as good with playback at this time. It won't be able to playback most HD stuff, but shouldn't have too many problems playing SD content.
 
musika said:
That's the only one he's selling, unfortunately! I'm in the US. I wish you the best of luck in your journey in finding one of these! Keep us posted!
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I just found this locally for $170. Trying to see if it is worth it.

It has USB 1.1 can it play content from my external hard drive (USB 3.0)
it is either 480p or 720p
 
wrinkster22 said:
I just found this locally for $170. Trying to see if it is worth it.

It has USB 1.1 can it play content from my external hard drive (USB 3.0)
it is either 480p or 720p
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Likely not. Even if USB 1.1 has enough speed, 700Mhz isn't going to produce anything watchable.
 
They make great iTunes jukeboxes and the Apple Pro speakers sound amazing. Good for light web browsing and other light computer work. Also great art piece.
 
Intell said:
Likely not. Even if USB 1.1 has enough speed, 700Mhz isn't going to produce anything watchable.
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I don't want to agree, but I kind of have to.

I have an 800Mhz and it is a choppy playing video.
It has no trouble with DVDs, though. So I may just need to play with my HandBrake settings.
 
minifridge1138 said:
I don't want to agree, but I kind of have to.

I have an 800Mhz and it is a choppy playing video.
It has no trouble with DVDs, though. So I may just need to play with my HandBrake settings.
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that is unfortunate; do tell if it works out for you :)

Intell said:
They make great iTunes jukeboxes and the Apple Pro speakers sound amazing. Good for light web browsing and other light computer work. Also great art piece.
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what do you mean by iTunes jukeboxes?
I want them just to play my content from my external hard drive, what specs do i need? 1ghz? They look amazing
 
wrinkster22 said:
what do you mean by iTunes jukeboxes?
I want them just to play my content from my external hard drive, what specs do i need? 1ghz? They look amazing
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Sadly I don't think any amount of changing Handbreak settings will make videos play back nicely on 700/800Mhz without it being really tiny and bad looking.

An iTunes jukebox is a machine that just sits around for the sole purpose of playing music via iTunes. Very little power is needed for this, I have an old 350Mhz G3 iMac that plays iTunes music all day long. Works very well and sounds great.
 
Intell said:
Sadly I don't think any amount of changing Handbreak settings will make videos play back nicely on 700/800Mhz without it being really tiny and bad looking.

An iTunes jukebox is a machine that just sits around for the sole purpose of playing music via iTunes. Very little power is needed for this, I have an old 350Mhz G3 iMac that plays iTunes music all day long. Works very well and sounds great.
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THat sounds cool, although I do not really have a need for that (My iTunes library [Music] is >3gb.
What specs would I need for 480p? The 1ghz?
thanks so much Intell.
 
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