So my Apple collection grows...

Skyboat · 3 Sep 2011 at 22:18

...for all of 10 seconds

Ex-Uni clearance machine that I sourced from an old friend. Minus a few scuffs and marks it's like nearly new!

I had originally planned to take it back to Uni with me for light tasks and development work but my old man seemed impressed by it so called shotgun on it to replace the ageing oversized tower I built them a few years back. Had a play on Tiger for all of 5 minutes before installing SL on it and now up and running beautifully. You'd never think it was a 5 year old machine.

pingwing · 3 Sep 2011 at 23:14

That is pretty sweet! Might have to do a similar thing for my mum as she's had her eyes on my old mbp for a while now (and I want sandy bridge at some point).

Was it expensive?

Skyboat · 3 Sep 2011 at 23:38

pingwing said:
Was it expensive?

£250. Came in a 2011 iMac box but with the original keyboard and Mighty Mouse and to my surprise an extra 1GB of RAM already installed. Just need to get the security stickers off the back

rarryawn · 4 Sep 2011 at 00:49

Not bad at all

Is it a new Intel jobby or one of dem PowerPCs?

Skyboat · 4 Sep 2011 at 01:17

It's a Late 2006 C2D model, specifically the last fully plastic iMac and the first to be fully compatible with Lion

Rameses · 4 Sep 2011 at 01:17

Brother in law still has my old iMac, was the first intel iMac. Absolutely fine as it was when new! I kinda miss it, I liked the white design.

Enjoy!

Deleted member 77746 · 4 Sep 2011 at 09:59

The old ones look horrible compared to the new ones but things progress for a reason

Have fun.

Alpherah · 4 Sep 2011 at 10:32

Bargain for that price!

pingwing · 4 Sep 2011 at 13:10

Thats a pretty sweet price

theheyes · 4 Sep 2011 at 21:07

I had the original Core Duo iMac, and while the graphics card was crap and the wifi was seriously buggy out of the box it was a great machine. Sold it to a mate for £450 a couple of years ago and it's still in use. I went back to PCs on the desktop after that though.