Flickr Find: What to do with 50 iMacs

Do what I did (although with fewer). I received a donation of 8 imacs like these at my church. I installed xubuntu on them and have them networked in our little library for access to the internet and our online card catalog. It was fun to get working on the first one and after I just imaged the drives and it works great!

Chris

Get the damn monitors off the floor! Who puts the monitor face down on a cement floor? Who does that?

i also want one, but they won't give me one because they just don't care.

Sell them on Ebay at w/e price they can get it at than use that money for sum fieldtrip since stupid govt cut sum of that budget out. even 100 bucks would help out for sum trip for the class.

i would buy an imac for 10bucks

Sell it, or give them to museum, or to some people who interested in it.

if you can get Tiger to run on the imac, you get them on a network and you can make a node , if you have a cpu that runs Tiger Server, http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/xgridstanford.html
they could join them or make there own cluster. Seti@home is a good idea too. easyer to setup if you cant install Tiger.

What to do with them? I think one kid already found out what to do with these iMacs when they were moving them....


http://flickr.com/photos/connors934/304241409/in/set-72157594388509862/


USE THEM AS DOOR STOPPERS! :D

the first thing is to stop scratching the screens by placing them face down on that ripped up concrete.

I walk by this silly art project currently on display here in Seattle (at SU's Lee Center for the Arts, to be specific,) involving probably 25 Bondi blue iMacs sitting on school desks, each showing a slightly different video of the same kid's bust. So it's sort of like having a virtual classroom. I guess. With one student, copied 25 times. So I guess what I'm saying is, having 50 iMacs on your hands is like having 50 works of art ready to go. To the non-Mac public, those aren't obsolete machines; they're Icons of the Information Age! Why do grid computing when you can have silly digital art?

Donate them abroad. There are people/kids in places/villages that would benefit from these.