The $20 iMac G4 (yep, it happened again.)

[Adamscomputerrepair]

That's a great find on the G4, for sure! I have always wanted one, but I'm really not sure where I would put it and what I would do with it. I would love to put one in the kitchen, the small 15-incher, but I am almost certain that if my wife left and returned to see an iMac on her kitchen counter that it wouldn't stay there for long ha ha! I wish they had stuck with that design when they added the G5 processors to the iMac, it would have made such an iconic design stay a lot more relevant for a lot longer. Still, I bet the fan noise would be pretty horrific in such a small enclosure for the CPU etc.

I think what I’m going to wind up doing is connecting it to my media server. My fiancée and I keep cooking videos saved on a partition of my server. It would be kind of cool to use it as a video player in the kitchen. That, or I’ll use it as a dedicated jukebox. Haven’t decided yet.

 

[bobesch]

Now that brings back memories. Back at school we had an exchange student assistant German teacher from Husum. He was a very tall, stocky pastor's son, nice but very dull and not very worldly. He grabbed our standard German coursebook one day and decided he was going to pick a lesson from it at random. He managed to open it on a section devoted to Ostfriesland and a page full of rather cruel East Frisian jokes. I have NEVER seen anyone look so disappointed and crestfallen in all my life. He just stared open mouthed at this book (printed in Germany, no less) for what must have been half a minute while all of us sitting close by (small class) tried our very best not to catch each other's eye and burst out laughing. We felt this weird mixed emotion of hilarity, sympathy, tension and embarrassment all at the same time. I still remember that to this day.

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