Greville Whittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Moulton, Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ><snip> > >I thought about that, but unfortunately/fortunately, depending on how > >you look at it, Macs keep their value very well, especially iMacs here > >in NZ. To make a secondhand Mac worthwhile I'd need to sell or trade my > >current iMac - and I'm not willing to part with it. It's been a great > >little Mac and with a modest investment will keep running for another > >year or two. Or at least till a G5 iMac or eMac arrives on the scene. > > > >Regards, > > Jamie Kahn Genet > Hi Jamie, > > I picked up a bondi (rev a) iMac when the local uni (Waikato) were > upgrading one of their mac labs, after upgrading the hard drive and > ram it runs OS X acceptably, mind you I don't use the machine for a > lot of proccessor intensive stuff.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm definitely going to try out OSX and will certainly stick with OS9 if that does not work out. > BTW If your after an upgrade for your iMac theres a guy selling a > Sonnet Harmoni G3 500 (which will give your imac a 500MHz cpu and > firewire) on trade me, http://www.trademe.co.nz (Note: prices are in > new Zealand dollars, 1$nz = .66$us approx). There are also a lot of > second-hand iMacs at the $200 - $300 mark (again new zealand dollars). > > Grev Cheers for the heads up on the Sonnet Harmoni G3 500 card. It's not quite as fast as I'd hoped for, but the saving on shipping as it's in the same country will probably make up for that, if I'm lucky enough to win it. Regards, Jamie Kahn Genet -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Message scanned by the Sheriff -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
