Scored a Perfect iMac G4 800MHZ

[MacManiac1701A]

Last night from Craigslist, the LCD is bright and the arm is tight.

The guy told me that this was hardly used.

I got it for 130.00 with speakers, mouse and keyboard.

 

[Mars478]

Nice score, one of Apple's more uniquer designs in it's production span. I will be getting myself one of those as soon as we get a teacher in my school a replacement desktop.

 

[MacManiac1701A]

Thanks... I've always loved this design, I've been search ebay but they are too much and the condition of some of them is horrible..

At least on CL I can haggle, ebay you cannot.

This isn't the fastest mac but I have a Mac Mini 2009, see my sig...

I just like the iMac...

 

[Mars478]

I want me one

 

[nick3012]

Nice! That price was great for what you got. They are really neat looking machines, quite radical.

 

[MacManiac1701A]

Thanks...

I just installed a 500GB Pata Western digital with 16MB cache 7200RPM for 76.00 at best buy.. cheaper than the internet...

I noticed the difference right away!!! the old seagate was 5400 but slow... Even web pages come up faster...

I'm happy.... VERY Happy!!!!

this is a very capable computer..

BUT when I took it apart it was LOADED with dust, I don't know how it even cooled!!!!

Replaced the thermal past also on the piece that needs it...

 

[IPNixon]

Nice score; the iMac G4 is one of my favorite designs from Apple. My (well, my family's) iMac G4 is probably full of dust by now; the fan always runs really loud. At some point I'm probably gonna crack it open and clean it out, probably followed by a reinstall of OS X; the copy of Tiger on it now was upgraded from the original Panther install from 2004.

 

[Temetka]

I've worked on those machines and I really like them.

A nice machine with decent CPU and GPU as well as a great design.

Congrat's on your score.

 

[ianj]

As much as I can't stand iMacs and all-in-ones in general, I love the adjustable-arm display on those things. I had to rebuild one at work the other week and only reluctantly sent it back because I enjoyed playing with the monitor so much.

 

[MacManiac1701A]

I do like the all in one's, I really never liked the original imac... I had one but never really like the design... the imac g5 bla..... emac too bulky......

the imac g4... AHHHHH!!!!! nice...

 

[Christopher]

As much as I can't stand iMacs and all-in-ones in general, I love the adjustable-arm display on those things. I had to rebuild one at work the other week and only reluctantly sent it back because I enjoyed playing with the monitor so much.

You must tell me how you did such a task. My iMac's arm won't stay in the "normal" spot if you know what I mean.

 

[MacManiac1701A]

I found this link for your arm problem.. hope it helps...

http://macosx.com/tech-support/mac/loose-monitor-arm/334015.html

 

[Christopher]

$300 bucks? No thank you!

 

[AusNick]

These are very nice machines.

I got given one a few weeks ago. A mate was having a clean out and I got lucky.

My machine has issues though, the pro speakers won't work for some reason, I suspect I've lost a channel and the socket might be a bit dodgy, that's no problem, my existing speakers plugged into the headphone port. And the display has one stuck pixel, though I barely notice it.

Other than that, this beast craps all over my G4/400 performance-wise.

I've now migrated, but for some reason, I can't get OS 9 to install.

The machine needs upgrades though. It's only got 512 meg of RAM, which it suffers with since I'm running Tiger, and the original DVD drive, a Pioneer DVR-104 which is loud and slow. And the takeapart looks scary.

I have to say I do miss the upgrade options on my G4 tower, and the desk space I used to have.

What got my attention was the noise, or the lack thereof, it's a very quiet machine.

More RAM and a newer DVD drive, and maybe a bigger hard drive, and this thing will go quite well I think. I just have to get the courage up to do the takeapart.

I'll have to see how robust the PSU is. I don't want to open this thing up and successfully open this thing up and install goodies only to have the PSU die on me.

Nick

 

[~Coxy]

The takeapart is really not too bad. You're right about the PSU in them though, they can be a little meagre.

Which model of iMac do you have?

 

[AusNick]

M6498

I suspect it may have been opened up before, an upgrade prior to delivery to the original owner? As it has 512 Megs of RAM, 256/256. Course I want to take it to the maximum 1 Gig.

Going bigger and better on the hard drive and DVD drive will be where I run into problems. I can live with it if I have to, just burns of anything will take forever.

I managed to get the thing to boot into OS 9 (copying the system folder from my G4 tower), and everything seems to work as it should, but I don't think the video hardware is being correctly supported, it defaults to the maximum resolution (1440x900) but only at 8-bit. This I can't live with, and support through Apple or anywhere seems to be lacking.

It really would have helped if I'd gotten the original install CDs.

Nick