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well now...... on my travels I have managed to get a Lampshade 17inch 1.25 iMac with speakers running OS X 10.3.9 in good condition for the total cost of a case of beer and take it away....... it was a genuine sale as it belonged to a clients son who just wanted to have it go to a good home.......

I have cleaned up the files on the hard drive, added a stick of 512ram which I had, that fitted, updated the files, and now running my music files, which are on a external hard drive with a link to itunes along with JBL desk top speakers.

Tomorrow I am going to find out the cost of an airport card and a upgrade with the OS to OS X 10.4.11. With the research I have done, this computer will run quite happy with this upgrade....... then photoshop, then then..... great having new toys.....

Sounds great! I'm getting my Macbook Pro tomorrow and hopefully it'll run as well as your iMac is even when it reaches that age.

If you don't mind me asking, why not upgrade to Leopard?

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Graham
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Macbook Pro, very nice...... Leopard, from my research, can make the fans a bit noisy...... but will make some more inquiries

Now that's something they don't mention in the commercials!

Thanks for the reply Big Pix!

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Graham
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I ment the upgrade OS on the Lampshade iMac will make the fans a bit noisy....

sorry for the confusion

That's how I understood it! Now I'm confused....

Just kidding.

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Graham
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fans noisy when....max out the ram and this will not happen

the reason fans come on is people running processor hungry programs like photoshop with say 1-2 GB of ram, and when the ram is full the processor works harder causing the fans to come on and cool them down.

solution more ram..

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Mark Osborne
My life through an iPhone

....... thanks, but this old iMac is max out at 1.25g

if its that old then possibly open it up and clean out the heat sink and fans of the years of gunk that the system has sooked in, giving the system better air intake and needing less use of the fans.

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Mark Osborne
My life through an iPhone

Congratz on a great purchase!

I'm a Windows user since day 1 or should I say, after being through DOS in different variations..lol.

Never really tried a Mac and if I swore off computer gaming as a hobby, I might switch to Apple simple to reduce the amount of time I spend fixing and cleaning up.

Vista - which I was stupid enough to install on my wife's new PC (D'oh!) is pure hell..lol. Have XP myself.

Anyway, sorry for the tangent. A case of beer is definitely a reasonable price for you, the buyer

Cheers!

Its the best switch i have ever done, and that's coming from a windows user since the 3.1 days. You'll love it, and remember it has bootcamp within osx so you can easily run xp/vista if you so wish from the system.

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Mark Osborne
My life through an iPhone

I have just picked up today the lampshade iMac after I had an airport card added and the latest software....... all working just fine.......

I'm a Windows 3.1 oldie too =D sure i was only 4, but hey, my old 286 was a machine back then =D

then a 386, then 486, then Pentium 90 =D lol.

Windows 3.1 for workgroups - Played Doom - that was enough for me.


We use those iMacs at school for photography. Firstly, they dont open my RAW images, secondly they are slow, thirdly the screens small.

>_< - what makes it worse - there is a Apple mac Dual G5 with a 23" screen sitting right at the other end of the room which is hardly used - its a Teachers Only machine apparently :/


Good luck with it - hopefully its faster than the ones we got to use =)

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Canon EOS 5DmkII + BG-E6 + Canon EOS 40D + BG-E2N + Canon EOS 33
Canon 17-40 F/4L USM + Canon 24-70 F/2.8L USM + Canon 28mm F/1.8 USM + Canon 70-200 F/2.8L USM IS + Canon 85mm F/1.8 USM
Canon Speedlite 580EX II + Canon Speedlite 540EZ + 2 x Nikon SB-80DX
Cactus V2s Wireless Trigger - 5 x Cactus V2s Wireless Reciever

MY FLICKR!

Bah, as Thomas would say, you youngsters.

Coming from the world of CP/M and MS-DOS I can remember being totally blown away by Windows 2. A GUI and task switching - heaven! However, I would like to take this opportunity to deny any rumour that I cut my computational teeth on Charles Babbage's Difference Engine.

Bob.

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OM-D E-M5 + ED 12-50mm, H-PS14042E, H-F007014E, L-RS014150E, M.ZUIKO DIGITAL 45mm 1:1.8.
Gitzo GT1541T, Arca-Swiss Z1 DP ball-head.
Astrophotography: TEC 140 'scope, FLI ML16803 camera, ASA DDM60 Pro mount.

Bob, is it true that you are changing to NIKON and Mac's.....