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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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Conclusion

Great, another Mac hater, I hear you say. Such a jerk. Well, you're wrong. I wouldn't take all the hassle, if it was just about ranting about it. I could have all the ranting fun just by telling about web articles and without investing money in the whole mess.

I'm pissed up about my piece of crap I bought 6 years ago. And I'm even more pissed, that apple would continue to sell some overhyped, overpriced hardware. Look at the cube, for example. A nice thing to have, like a iMac without the screen. But did you read the price tag? Insanely great, indeed.

If you read this far you might as well write your comments below. Please do. Maybe you even know someone, who can fix my iMac? For little money? Or maybe even for free? That would be even more instanely great.

Reference

Informatik-Forum for Mac

nice discussions, german

Insanely Great - the website

Macintosh portal

Insanely Great - the book

a book about mac history

iMac FAQ

Mac Repair Manuals
                     
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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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