The hard drive on i4est, my mid 2007 24" iMac has died. Since I got
min4est, my mac mini, I've been using it as a secondary machine, because
it has such a nice large monitor. It would be fairly straightforward to
replace the hard drive and DVD (which died a while back), or even boot
it off an external firewire drive. However, to be honest, it doesn't
really fit my needs. I'd be much better with a laptop as a second
system, which I could take on photo road trips, or even just nicer
monitors on my Linux box.
The display is gorgeous, and it's nice for web surfing, displaying photo
slide shows and similar it just doesn't have the horsepower for
processing large numbers of big photo files, particularly on external
drives. I hear that with an SSD, they actually zip along pretty well.
I don't know, off hand the actual value of this system with the dead
drives. I've been booting it off the drive I just took out of Zab's
macbook pro, and it works fine like that.
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.21f4
Serial Number (system): YD82006VX89
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-001EC20A47C7
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Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est)
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