Yes, I put Panther on it (including this latest round of updates over the past few days). Right now it's a lean, clean Apple-only machine. No third-party stuff whatsoever, just what comes with the Panther install.
My Mom hasn't received it yet...will be after Christmas when she can concentrate on it a bit. She's already clearing a space on her desk, so...
I have to say, I'm VERY impressed. I've basically been on it all day (and quite a bit Friday night, yesterday (Saturday) morning and some late last night and it's doing everything.
I have 384MB RAM on it, but I've pretty much had Mail, Safari, iTunes and Sherlock open and running this entire time (as well as Address Book and iCal on a couple of occasions) and it's handling it all very nicely.
Exposé isn't as smooth as on my PowerBook, but I suspect that's a lot to do with the 8MB graphics? It works, just a tad herky-jerky. But barely noticeable, to be completely honest.
As I said, I'm VERY impressed, considering! A four-year-old Mac running the very, very latest Mac OS and not a trainwreck in sight.
It had a warranty repair done on it about 2 years ago, a replaced hard drive. Cool thing, they stuck a 20GB model in instead of the 10GB that's supposed to come in these first-generation fruit slot-loaders, so that's cool!
For surfing, e-mailing, listening to music, writing, iCal, Office and light graphics, it's great. Heck, I had it for two years and totally used Photoshop and Illustrator for every mockup I drew, every infographic I created, every freelance job I did, every retouching assignment I had, etc.
Thanks pscates - good info to know. I also like the way you're setting it up and putting it thorugh it's paces before the handover. I might follow your lead there - it will surely help prevent a few "teething problems" when my parents are confronted with this new way of interacting with a computer!
yeah, i've found that old machines really do a wonderful job if they have a pile of RAM in them. although some of the eye candy is slow, that's about it.
it's stable, works really well as a server. not sure i'd want to do things constantly on a slower machine like that though.
Mac+, I just now went to eBay, typed in "snow iMac" (trying to find one of the last models with the highest speed/biggest hard drive, etc.) and quite a few popped up.
Also just did a look for "iMac" and "iMac" DV and TONS of them are out there. The 400MHz iMac DV models (like I have) seem to be going for the mid/upper $200's...
I went and looked a few up within Australia. Is there any way you can keep track of an auction? Or do you have to keep revisitng the same page again and again throughout the day?
I have never actually used eBay in my life - don't let murbot hear that though.
Though I've never used this feature, it looks like if you're logged into eBay, you can add auctions to watch via a link under the item number (near top right) on the item description pages. Then go to your "My eBay" page and look at "Items I'm watching".
Alternatively, I think you can use Sherlock to do it as well.
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My Mom hasn't received it yet...will be after Christmas when she can concentrate on it a bit. She's already clearing a space on her desk, so...
I have to say, I'm VERY impressed. I've basically been on it all day (and quite a bit Friday night, yesterday (Saturday) morning and some late last night and it's doing everything.
I have 384MB RAM on it, but I've pretty much had Mail, Safari, iTunes and Sherlock open and running this entire time (as well as Address Book and iCal on a couple of occasions) and it's handling it all very nicely.
Exposé isn't as smooth as on my PowerBook, but I suspect that's a lot to do with the 8MB graphics? It works, just a tad herky-jerky. But barely noticeable, to be completely honest.
As I said, I'm VERY impressed, considering! A four-year-old Mac running the very, very latest Mac OS and not a trainwreck in sight.
It had a warranty repair done on it about 2 years ago, a replaced hard drive. Cool thing, they stuck a 20GB model in instead of the 10GB that's supposed to come in these first-generation fruit slot-loaders, so that's cool!
For surfing, e-mailing, listening to music, writing, iCal, Office and light graphics, it's great. Heck, I had it for two years and totally used Photoshop and Illustrator for every mockup I drew, every infographic I created, every freelance job I did, every retouching assignment I had, etc.
it's stable, works really well as a server. not sure i'd want to do things constantly on a slower machine like that though.
Also just did a look for "iMac" and "iMac" DV and TONS of them are out there. The 400MHz iMac DV models (like I have) seem to be going for the mid/upper $200's...
I went and looked a few up within Australia. Is there any way you can keep track of an auction? Or do you have to keep revisitng the same page again and again throughout the day?
I think he's part owner or VP.
Alternatively, I think you can use Sherlock to do it as well.