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    I bought a used iMac!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Devon, Oct 26, 2006.

  1. Devon

    Devon Notebook Consultant

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    Well I had nothing to do today and was board, at a local computer shop sat a original Bondi Blue iMac, he wanted $50 bucks for it, a little high but for what a pain it would be to buy one on ebay and get it I thought what the heck. apon booting it to my surprise it was upgraded to 333mhz had 64mb ram, 6gb hard drive and a ATI rage pro 6mb, I put os 9.2 on it, had 8.5.1 on it. I also put various games and apps like quake 3, its runs ok at 640x480 around 30fps still fun though and I plan to put more on it, man I sure missed the macs. glad to be back
     
    Devon, Oct 26, 2006
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    gridtalker Notebook Virtuoso

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    Sweet so did you get it
     
    gridtalker, Oct 27, 2006
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    xbandaidx Notebook Deity

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    Imagine how cool and good the OS is now.

    OOooooooh. OS X!
     
    xbandaidx, Oct 27, 2006
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  4. Devon

    Devon Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah I got it, needs a keyboard though its wierd if you press the F key then f and d both apear at the same time its as if ER, DF, CV were stuck together as one key, no biggie though, up untel this mac the newest one I used is a PowerMacintosh 5500/275, I got a remote for it and used it primarily to watch tv and sometimes hook up a video game system and to record low quality video.
     
    Devon, Oct 28, 2006
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