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Insanely Dead: My iMac is back
updated by rck, 2004-10-12

I bought an iMac back in 1998. Because it was cool. Connect just two cables and you're in the Internet. Yeah, right. It of course didn't work out like that.

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Keyboard Troubles

Did I mention, the iMac is a big heap of cheap plastic? Well I should have by now. Another fine example would be the keyboard. It's rather smallish, has some weird screws (two of one size, two of another) which are hard to unscrew (too much pressure) without damaging them.

And the clamps, which are on the bottom of the keyboard, only need to be looked at evilish enough: they'll break all by themselves.

But: I've fixed that all by myself! I've unscrewed that sucker, put the isolation back in place, screwed it back in place and secured the whole thing with loads of isolation tape.

It's not looking that bad and sure cheaper than the Apple Pro Keyboard Apple tries to sell.

Real mice for real men

Choose your mouse
apple - logitech - microsoft

I don't know which is the most annoying thing of my iMac. The mouse sure takes a place amongst the top. It's so annoying in fact, I didn't even bother to link it to a higher resolution image, it would be a waste of bandwith.

The mouse is all the cheap iMac design, sized down all the way. It's round, there's no way in holding it in a comfortable way. It's small, made for children's hands. And it's ugly.

But, I hear you say: You can connect any mouse you like! You're not limited to one single button, I in fact have a mouse with ten buttons connected to my Mac! Yes, I'd reply. If you wouldn't replace your iMac mouse with something more useful, your hands would hurt pretty soon. So it should better be possible, shouldn't it.

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  • Bad experience

    Posted on 2004-09-30 04:03:49 By Anonymous

    It's a pity you've had a bad experience with your iMac but mostly it just comes from lack of knowledge and some bad advice from your retailer although I don't know about the power-up problems.

    The RAM is dirt cheap as it's standard SODIMM or DIMM depending on the slot. It can be expanded to 192MB RAM which is barely passable for OSX and some people have had 384MB running ok. The video ram can be expanded to 6MB which will get you millions of colours at 1024x768.

    The empty port you mention is probably the mezzanine slot, not airport if you've a RevA iMac. There were only a few expansion cards for it as Apple killed the slot in the RevC iMac. IIRC there was a Voodoo2 card and a SCSI card.

    Have a look at http://www.lowendmac.com for more info. Should be a bunch of stuff on there.

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