Just Got: Apple iMac G3/600mhz (Summer 2001)

[miniMOJOman]

Just picked this baby up, she is beautiful!  I had the 400mhz SE when it was released, so this thing is awesome!!!!  

G3 600mhz

1gb Ram

80gb HDD

Airport Card

I think I might use it as a fileserver, is that a good idea?

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

It's a good idea if you think it's a good idea.

Biggest power consumption element on that will be the tube itself, but I'm assuming you'll sleep that most of the time.

And congrats!

 

[unity]

Nice! And I love that color.

 

[SuperToaster]

I always loved the graphite iMacs

 

[Schmoburger]

Very nice! I have a graphite Summer 2000 DV SE 500 that I tore down to a chassis and rebuilt a couple of years ago. Such a mint looking colour! This is when it had just gone back together.

There is a fairly lengthy post on the blog detailing the tear down and rebuild here on my blog if that is something that interests you.

So, how are the speaker surrounds on it?

 

[miniMOJOman]

Yea the graphite is my favorite color!

Speaker surrounds?  you mean how is the condition?? Looks like she is in perfect condition.  

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

He means the foam on the speakers, it is degrading?

 

[miniMOJOman]

OH! Gotcha,  Yah I have no idea, would I need to open it up to see?

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Well, you could play some tunes and see if it sounds terrible, or take a flashlight to the grilles and peek.

 

[Schmoburger]

Yep if heyre falling apart, the first time you play some fat tunes that push them to higher excursions they will start to crackle... The foam seems to just fall to pieces. I don't have a single iMac with two good speakers, which is a shame as they sounded great when they were new.

 

[miniMOJOman]

I was playing some old favorites on it last night.. blasted it to full volume, sounded good to me...  Quake 3 arena and Heavy Metal FAKK2..  I'll check it when I get home, didnt bring it in the shop today, think I might keep this one at home

 

[LazarusNine]

That's an awesome looking Mac. I just caught a glance at this one in the town I live, but I'm A ) "not allowed" to buy any more old Macs (*grumble*) and B ) not about to pay £45 for it. But maybe £25...No!

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=361230711971

 

[miniMOJOman]

Yah not bad!!!  What I really like about this unit is that it is SO quiet!  You can barely hear the HDD working, but other than that.......silence...

The airport card I put in it is garbage though... cant connnect to very many routers at all...

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

That's because the old AirPort card supports WEP or WPA only, and WPA is only under OS X. Most modern networks use WPA2 security.

 

[miniMOJOman]

Actually I am using an airport extreme router, and it has the ability to do WPA and WPA2 I believe.  But neither seem to work... Actually I had it working for about 10 minutes, then it disconnected, and I couldnt get it to even SEE any wifi..... maybe the airport died.. lol

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Is your router outputting 802.11b? Lol, it doesn't do G or N.

 

[miniMOJOman]

I am pretty sure the airport extreme router does abgn... but maybe ill need to refresh myself on its specs... im bringing another airport card home tonight and ill try that

 

[LazarusNine]

The Extreme does G; I'm quite sure of that. You could just have a dodgy connection/card. I've had a couple bad Airport cards over the years. I'll tell you, though, everything will seem easy compared to my hunting down a PCMCIA wireless card for my Lombard PowerBook. :O

 

[miniMOJOman]

Cant you get one from ebay for like 5$?  EDIT: Oh does it have to be a special apple pcmcia card?