So a few months ago I bought an iMac from the thrift store to play around with, mostly because I have never used one before. I really bought it to teach myself how to repair and upgrade them. So, in the beginning it was a stock rev.a Bondi ( 233 Mhz G3 / 4gb HDD / 32 mb RAM / 2 mb VRAM on OS...
So I am almost done pimping my iMac.. from the stock 233 G3 / 32mb RAM/ 4 Gb hard drive to a 466 Mhz G4 / 256 Mb RAM / 75 Gb hard drive. However, it still has the stock 24x cd-rom. I see many of the slot-loading 4x DVD-ROM drives that have been pulled from other iMacs on eBay. Can i swap my...
I won this on ebay today:
I plan to add it into my rev. A Bondi iMac. Ending price was $76. Did I get a good price on it? Also, what kind of performance boost can I expect?[/img]
So I have an iBook SE 466 Mhz that I bought 8 years ago. Is there anything I can do with it nowadays? I had it running OS 9.2.2, but Firefox doesnt run on that.. and IE 5 is demon-spawn horrible... i have the RAM maxed to 320 mb. I have tried Mac OS X 10.1.2, but it's mind numbingly slow...
Over the years the local Deseret Industries thrift store has supplied me some amazing Macintosh finds. Here they are!
hardware:
Macintosh IIcx (4mb ram / 40 Mb hdd / Nubus video card/ my cousin used it as a linux server)
Power Computing Power 110 (32mb ram / 1gb hdd/ sold it to a mac dealer...