toptenmaterial Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 I bought what I believe is a first generation iMac from the Goodwill depot connected to my work. All of the previous content has been wiped clean but the OS is still intact! I think that everything works. My thoughts so far: this is a cool little computer (though perhaps not so little). When I turn it on, I immidiately hear the CTR firing up; reminds me of a television. The computer is fast, much faster than my laptop which is about ten years newer. I suppose that the OS is very lean and there are no programs booting up at startup (there are hardly any programs at all on the machine). Audio quality is WONDERFUL. The speakers in this beast really hit, and the sound is crisp and clear. So what else can I do with this beast? Any cool games or creative apps for a Mac of this vintage? And do I dare update iTunes? Comment and discuss! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 (edited) is is mac os 9.2 or X? there is a pile of stuff that will run on it very well in 9 as its an older OS so theres years of backlog from the entire PPC family ... theres a bunch of stuff for OSX as well but now your reaching upto the multighz G5 era where the original imac's can be a bit lacking in horsepower course theres not much stopping you from getting them both and multibooting, maybe even toss some linux on it Edited May 20, 2013 by Osgeld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptenmaterial Posted May 21, 2013 Author Share Posted May 21, 2013 It's X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Dart Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 You can certainly put OS 9.2 on there; the Classic environment was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dripfree Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Yea get some quake going on there...... and oh oh the REAPER BOT MOD! I passed on one of those at value village the other day. They wanted 6 bucks for it. It didn't have the keyboard or mouse or I'd have grabbed it. It was a nice green. I think that value village thought it was just a monitor cuz they had other crappy monitors for the same price. I always hope I'll find an old atari or commodore in with the 99 cent keyboards at goodwill but that's probably dreaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toptenmaterial Posted May 23, 2013 Author Share Posted May 23, 2013 Found a really old monochrome Apple monitor the other day... I was getting ready to toss it in my trunk when I saw a bed bug carcass on it. Fuck that. Can I load modern iTunes on this beast? Do I dare? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendawg Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 iTunes 11.0.3 for OSX requires OSX 10.6.8 minimum....doubtful a first gen iMac could run that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 Ohhh god!!!! Off topic, but don't bother with iTunes 11. It does worse than suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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