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Blueberry 333mhz iMac G3

Big Bird

Well-known member
iMacs on eBay have gotten ridiculously cheap, to the point that paying for shipping is often substantially more than the item itself.

That's a nice find, though, if it's local. Slap a version of OS X Server or *BSD on it and you've got a pretty nice web server. One of my hobbies is setting up servers on computers of all vintage. It's a strange hobby, so I understand. :)

 

MacMan

Well-known member
Very nice price :D
Definitely! The G3 iMacs have now fallen into that catagory of computer obsolescence where they can be bought for next to nothing. Give it about 5 or 10 years though and they will become collectables and novelty "retro" items (hence why I'm hanging onto my Indigo iMac G3).

Nice conquest!

 

Patrickool93

Well-known member
I picked this up today on the way to a road trip like vacation. Stopped at a garage sale along the way and, what did I find? The sealed manuals/apple stickers/setup guide, etc for a Slot loader. Dug deaper, and I found the disks. OS 10.1.2 and 9.2. With iMovie 2 which I had been looking for. Got to the Hotel, lugged up the iMac and iBook. I wiped the iMacs drive, and installed 10.1 using the CD's :) A little slow on 96MB's but still cool. So I'm at a hotel, with an iMac in the desk :p I got a WiFi bridge from the front desk and I'm typing this on my iBook. After I got the iMac set up I realized the router is in my room, so I plugged in the iMac with a ethernet cable and surfer the net in OS X 10.1 :) Overall a good iMac, with a few fugly sticker on it. Can't wait to get home to upgrade the RAM :) btw, I'm in Mansfield, Ohio right now...

 

LCGuy

LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Definately...my iMac is a 333, like yours, and its a lot faster under 10.2 than 10.1 on any amount of RAM.

 
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