I think the power supply modules have failed on my computer. It died suddenly during use. Anyone have broken iMac with parts they might be interested in selling?
Doug
ingoldd@sympatico.ca
there's one on used ottawa at the moment. 500$ tho, extremely overpriced. not sure he knows its not worth that anymore!!! i wouldn't pay more then 130$ at the most for that model.
hope that helps you out!
I agree he's over priced, but these are getting very hard to find. And I don't think I've ever seen a working one go for less than $200. I actually love the way they look. I have two of them! I might eventually sell one of them, if I can decide which one I want to keep. Definitely not for parts though. I got my second one because I was going to swap the 17 inch screen with the 15 inch screen on my 1 GHz, but when I took them apart, I saw that I would have to do some major surgery. I'm not going to do that to two working systems that I love!
Quote from: TechnoDweeb on November 17, 2009, 10:13:57 PM
I actually love the way they look.
Yeah, the iMac G4 aka 'iLamp' was definitely a classic design that has held up well since it's introduction in 2002. I think the quality of the arm was such that it was too costly to continue that or similar designs.
(http://lowendmac.com/imacs/art/fpimac2.jpg)
I do love how easy it is to re-position the screen and say, bring it closer to you, or push it back out of the way when you're done. It's a G4/PPC, so no Snow Leopard, but Tiger 10.4 should be fine, and some folks have got Leopard 10.5 working. Still a fine-looking machine for casual browsing/email/word-processing or iTunes.
PS. An amusing iMac G4 Shopping Ad from back in its day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYutehhGknI
PPS. For aficionados of trailing edge hardware, lowend.mac (http://lowend.mac) is a must-bookmark site: 15" iMac G4/700 MHz, 800 MHz (http://lowendmac.com/imacs/15in-imac-g4-700-800-mhz.html)
Sacrilege! But couldn't resist. Now this is a real 'lampshade' model:
(http://files.macbidouille.com/mbv2/news/news_11_09/DSCF0017.JPG.jpg)
...from How to Recycle an iMac Luxo (http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/11/04/how-to-recycle-an-imac-luxo), hardmac.com, 2009/11/04