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2013, March 7 - 10:55am

themacmeister

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Things getting better and better

I just found a cheap Core i5 Mid-2011 iMac to replace my Core i3 Mid-2010 model. Will be selling that one shortly.

Also, picking up original (small screen) G4 iMac (700MHz?) on Sunday. Owner says monitor arm is still firm, and looks like ODD tray has not discoloured-- SCORE!!!

I am also in discussions to buy a dual-CPU MDD G4 Power Mac from Hobart. Maxed out RAM and plenty of HDD space. With luck, it will still run OS9.2.2, if not, it is still a great computer. I may not be able to pick this one up for a few more weeks.

Still, 3 iMacs, an iBook, and shortly (hopefully) a dual-processor MDD G4 Power Mac!

PS. I have a pre-pentium NEC Versa laptop. Still works and boots to Win95, but it looks like 12MB CF card is broken. Battery is flat.

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2013, March 7 - 11:13am

Dimitris1980

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Recently i bought a Powermac G4 MDD 1.25 Ghz (not the FW800). It has mac os tiger and it can also boot from 9.2. It had 768 mb ram and i added two more sticks of 512 mb each. Great machine!!! Escape from Monkey Island, Railroad Tycoon 2, Myst Masterpiece Edition, Max Payne were some games that i tried and they ran like a dream. I also bought a GForce Ti 4600 with 128 mb ram but i haven't installed it yet. I also need the drives for Mac Os 9 (for tiger i don't know if i have to do sth). So go for the MDD G4. That is my opinion. My list of macs is the following:

1. Powerbok 540c, 36mb ram, Mac Os 7.5, 320 mb hard drive

2. Performa 6116, sonnet nubus g3 500 mhz installed, 136 mb ram, 4.2 gb hard drive, 4x cd rom drive, roland mt32 installed, Mac Os 7.6 & 8.1.

3. Imac G3 500 Mhz, 1 gb ram, Ati Pro 128 with 16mb ram, 40 gb hard drive, Mac Os 9.2 & Tiger.

4. Powermac G4 MDD 1.25 Ghz, 1,78 gb ram, 60 gb hard drive, Gforce 32mb ram (to be replaced by Gforce Ti 4600 128 mb soon), cd rw drive, Mac Os Tiger & 9.2

6. Imac Intel Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz (mid 2007), 4 gb ram, 250gb hard drive, 128 mb video card, 500gb external lacie hard drive, Mountain Lion.

2013, March 8 - 3:45am

themacmeister

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Hey Dimitris,

I believe that is the exact MDD I bought. I will be extremely happy if it boots OS9.2.2. It is the 32MB Geforce2MX. Mine has 2GB RAM (I think) and a DVD-Burner. Comes with spare HDDs and another burner.

2013, March 9 - 11:42pm

themacmeister

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The MDD G4 got sold out from under me (couldn't get there in time). Sigh.

Still, I am picking up the original 15" G4 iMac today.

Also, I am selling my Core i5 iMac. Don't have original packaging, so selling locally only. Should make a nice $300 profit on that

2013, March 10 - 4:59am

atarikee

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There's a dual 1.25 ghz MDD for sale here locally, for $120, that boots OS 9. I'm considering grabbing it...

2013, March 10 - 8:44am

themacmeister

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Grab it atarikee, make sure it doesn't have the third firewire800 port, those ones could not boot OS9.

The other two can, and they are nearly identical. The main bug with these (apart from power supply failures) was the noise/interference over the audio ports. This was a design flaw, no matter what Apple says.

2013, March 10 - 8:46am

themacmeister

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Got my G4 iMac today, and it is IMMACULATE. It may have come straight out of the box, it is THAT CLEAN!

Ordered the 512MB SO-DIMM, so will shortly have 768MB, which is plenty for my uses. Also using LeopardAssist to install 10.5.8 on it.

2013, March 10 - 9:23am

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MikeTomTom

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Congrats TMM! I've been wanting one of those for a while too, but am hanging off cos I'm eying up another old Mac at the moment.

2013, March 11 - 1:47am

themacmeister

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Here I am trying to install Leopard 10.5, but I did not have enough RAM (384MB).

http://i.imgur.com/CRnJzKJ.jpg

Look at how clean that iMac is!!! No discolouring on drive door, or top vents.

I was using an external USB DVD-RW to install (iMac has CD-RW only). Tried using latest LeopardAssist, but it does not bypass memory requirements. I currently have 10.4.11 and 9.2.2 installed. I will upgrade to Leopard when I have the RAM (shortly), but I will lose the Classic environment (not an issue when I can boot into OS9 at will). Will transfer the apps/data from the 20GB iBook shortly.