Checking in to let you all know that we had our first disposal machine in a while come through the shop yesterday. It basically involved stripping the hard drive out of it, transferring it to a newer machine and then leaving the remaining parts out on the side of the road for collection. Since it was under explicit instruction from the customer that this machine was to be disposed of, and nobody else wanted it, it left two options. Either I take it or we leave it out for collection in which case I take it anyway. Well the shop offered me the former so I picked it up as-is.
I was actually thinking about doing some work on this machine, transfer the panel across from my Core 2 Duo iMac and make it my main system, especially considering it has Bluetooth and Radeon X1600 Graphics, however i'd then lose the Core 2 Duo 64-bit processor (which, although it's a socketed CPU and therefore transferrable, is a total hell of a job to swap). I suppose swapping the CPU Isn't impossible, just tedious.
Still haven't a clue what i'll do with it. Something i'll look into fairly soon.
Doesn't look like there's much wrong with it at all. Some backlight bleed near the base of the LCD and a single pink line running up the LCD about 1 quarter of the way in from the right side of the panel. Logic board is good. RAM is good. No faults found with the graphics card or video circuitry.iMac Core Duo (Early 2006 17-inch)Intel Core Duo Processor @ 1.83GHz
2GB RAM
No Hard Disk (since installed a 200GB)
ATI Radeon X1600 Graphics 128MB
17" Widescreen LCD Display
Mac OS X Snow Leopard now installed
Box and Foam inserts provided
I was actually thinking about doing some work on this machine, transfer the panel across from my Core 2 Duo iMac and make it my main system, especially considering it has Bluetooth and Radeon X1600 Graphics, however i'd then lose the Core 2 Duo 64-bit processor (which, although it's a socketed CPU and therefore transferrable, is a total hell of a job to swap). I suppose swapping the CPU Isn't impossible, just tedious.
Still haven't a clue what i'll do with it. Something i'll look into fairly soon.