Was this iMac a good deal?

[Peterson8765]

I just bought a late 2006 17-inch Core 2 Duo iMac from a guy off craigslist for only $100. The funny thing is that he posted it as an iMac G5 originally because he didn't know the specs of the machine until he looked. The specs are a 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 160GB hard drive. The iMac is in great shape and he also included an apple keyboard and a third party mouse with it as well. The only bad thing is that I don't think he used it very much because it only has Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.11) on it. Should I upgrade to Snow Leopard and then after that upgrade to Lion? But anyway, was this a pretty good deal for the price?

 

[Steve121178]

For $100, yes it's a good deal.

 

[yjchua95]

I just bought a late 2006 17-inch Core 2 Duo iMac from a guy off craigslist for only $100. The funny thing is that he posted it as an iMac G5 originally because he didn't know the specs of the machine until he looked. The specs are a 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 160GB hard drive. The iMac is in great shape and he also included an apple keyboard and a third party mouse with it as well. The only bad thing is that I don't think he used it very much because it only has Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.11) on it. Should I upgrade to Snow Leopard and then after that upgrade to Lion? But anyway, was this a pretty good deal for the price?

I think you should bump the RAM up to its maximum of 3GB. You can put 4GB in, but the Mac will only address 3GB. Lion's a resource hog so you'll need all the RAM you can get.

Snow Leopard is the XP of Apple. Stay on it 🙂

 

[Phildo]

Snow Leopard is the XP of Apple. Stay on it 🙂

This.

Snow Leopard is the last OS X that has Rosetta, which allows you to run older software. Which most software that you'll use on that Mac will need.

Mac OS 10.6.8 is what you want.

 

[thekev]

It was okay, but what does it matter now? If you're concerned whether something is a good deal, the time to consider it is prior to purchase. If it was a G5, it would have been overpriced.