I know a lot of people with one of those old “flavored” iMacs sitting around. I even have one myself. But what to do with it? Not so long ago the HD on it died and I got a bigger one and more RAM installed which brought the whole machine back to life. Bob Levitus gives the same advice in the Houston Chronicle:
In the end, I recommended keeping the iMac, but
adding a bigger hard drive and more RAM. I speculated that upgrading to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther might offer additional
speed, but wasn’t as important as the RAM and disk.F11 moves all your windows off the screen so you can quickly glance at your desktop. F10 shows you every open window in an application. F9 shows every open window for every application that isn't hidden or in the dock.
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mrjerz said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
I have looked everywhere for a really easy way to set this up, but i there a good site that you guys know of that details how to turn one of these things into a server running PHP? I am having a really hard time trying to figure it out, and would love to do it with my iMac.
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Will said 10:56PM on 7-05-2005
My friend gave me an older generation iMac that had OS X 10.1 or 2 with ram upgrades and I was really surprised at how smoothly it ran.
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rett said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
I've using an old 333mhz iMac as a the main router for my home LAN using 10.2.8 with the help of a nifty little script from macosxhints that that activates net sharing at start-up.
It's wortked like a charm. I'm also running a number of the built-in services like web sharing and samba and I'm running itunes to share music with the other computers in the house.
I tried using 10.3 server for a bit, and it's pretty damn cool. I had a much easier time fi nding articles online about setting up a 10.2 box as a server. O'Reilly has a great series of articles on setting up apache and even installing php on 10.2.
Here's the url for the o-reilly articles http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/04/apache_jaguar_pt1.html .
Oh, and I should mention that I upgraded the iMac to 512mb ram and threw in a 27gb hard drive (don't forget to make a <8gb partition for booting from).
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Jeff Thomas said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
I have an old iMac bought when they first came out. I want to sell it along with an iDock and all the goodies that came with it. What would be a reasonable asking price? It has OS 8 on it.
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PC Guy said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
It took you over three years to figure out that a computer can be upgraded?
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Lee-Anne said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Does anyone know where to get the 120 GB HD (online) that is mentioned in the article? Thanks!
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