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What to do with an iMac

Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:16 am

Someone just gave me a Rev. C iMac blueberry. What the heck can I do with it? Right now it has 32M of memory. I'm willing to spend about $100 on it.

Now what? Will it run OS X? Or should I run Linux on it?
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Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:57 am

OS X is a hog and not as speedy as OS 9.
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Wed Jan 29, 2003 4:01 am

Agreed that it's a hog. But OS 9 is creaky and ancient and digging up enough useful software would cost money :). I would kinda like to see Unix/Linux on it, would be much more useful to me.
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Wed Jan 29, 2003 4:35 am

How about kindling?


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Wed Jan 29, 2003 7:57 am

Beef it up to at least 256MB and it'll run OS X. It won't be terribly fast but it will run.
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Wed Jan 29, 2003 11:12 pm

I'll give it a whirl Steel. But I think I'll try Yellow Dog Linux first. :) It's free :D. I'd hate to pay 130 bucks for a slow OS. Will let everyone know how it goes.
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Thu Jan 30, 2003 12:07 am

Id say yellow dog linux, then if you want get the ram...maybe for "testing" puposes you go borrow OS X :lol:
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Thu Jan 30, 2003 1:40 am

I'm getting the RAM either way. 32M isn't enough for anything nowadays
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Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:57 am

You could always do something 'entertaining' and post the results on <a href="http://www.tech-report.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4975">this</a> thread... :)

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