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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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Fast forward to 2004

Today, as I mentioned, I took it back. It isn't working still, doesn't want to power up at all and just takes up valueable space from Andreas' father. This of course, wasn't the reason for me taking it back. It was all about a thread on the Informatik Forum (warning: german language), which made me think about my iMac again. And I wanted to try out the all hyped Mac OS X.

It wouldn't be too fast, the iMac wasn't fast back in 1998 and sure isn't of today. But it should be useable at least to a certain amount, because the iMac is said to be MacOS-X compilant. So I decided to take it back and try my best to make it running again.

Flo to the rescue

I took the iMac with me to GHL, where Flo and I updated the web server today. We replaced an outgrown, old harddisk with a new 80 GB model, making two dedicated partitions for /tmp and /var as well.

Flo helped me with disassembling the iMac and also read through the repair manual. As a technican, he's used reading such descriptions and helped me out a couple of times already.

It's quite interesting to see, how the iMac is built. My iMac doesn't differ too much from a common PC. One difference is: The parts don't only look cheap, they feel very cheap as well. And fragile. Consequently, the cover on the side of my iMac got lost somewhere already.

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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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