Lucky LEM writer finds a $25 iMac at a thrift store

Well, we've seen some cheap macs here. How about this for a way overpriced iMac G3 on my local craigslist... Freaking rediculous. You won't believe your eyes. This joker is on Mac Crack if he thinks he's gonna sell this for the asking price...or I feel sorry for the person who gets suckered into paying it!!!
http://jacksonville.craigslist.org/sys/188375737.html

That's whta's amazing about the OSX macs - installing a newer OS on it actually speeds it up - no matter what version of the imac you have! I have a friend who had the 2G imac - switched to Tiger, runs faster! Pretty freakin' amazing - another thing if you said to a PC user, they think it's just another UFo story of no viruses and no malware - no way is that true :-)

I got a 1985 Macintosh 512K in perfect condition for free at a garage sale (http://www.guillermoesteves.com/blog/2006/06/23/apple-macintosh-512k)... completely useless, unless I someday have an urgent need of writing something in MacWrite, I guess.

I got a G4 12" PBook for $300 (867Mhz) last December, I thought that was a pretty good deal.

I think this guy beat me though.

I have no affiliation with them and have never bought one, but Compgeeks has G3 iMac's pretty consistently at decent prices. Sometimes they are also on sale.

http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=810

$50 to $80 for complete systems -- not too shabby.

craigslist regularly has deals similar to this.

Funny coincidence: Saturday morning, I was driving to work for an odd weekend shift, and found an indigo iMac by the side of the road. It's a slot-loading 2000 model, with only a 350mhz processor, no firewire, and no real way to upgrade. The only practical use I've found is getting the Connectix Playstation emulator to run on it.

BTW, has anyone ever tried swapping out the daughtercard on one of these USB-only imacs? It just doesn't feel like a real mac without IEEE1394.

Slow news day? I think yes.

iFelix: if anything a G5 would be mistaken for an *operational* fan heater, since it kicks out so much heat :)

I bought for my mom G3, 20gb hard drive space, 600mhz for $50. I put into it the latest os x and its run amzing. My mom had SO much issues with her stupid PC I broke down and got her the G3. Never heard of ANY issues since.