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DAY 1

I have owned my imac g4 for about a day now, and am ready to start the review.

I bought it on craigslist for 100 USD, and it included the imac, original keyboard, mouse, and speakers, a wacom tablet, a licence of photoshop 7, web develuping software, and Word.

First, photo album:

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My thoughts so far:

Looks incredible, better than the pictures.

Screen can adjust a ton, and it is incredible how it stays paralell when you move it.

Boots up and shuts down faster than my moms bloated 2008 imac, slower than my gaming pc (no ssd in gaming pc)

Browser included makes web pages easier to load faster, and loads faster than my moms imac.

Speakers sound AMAZING, and get loud.

Photoshop 7 plays well with the wacom tablet, and i can do the different sensitivity.

Mouse only right clicks, and can not scroll. Not a problem yet.

Web pages dont work that well, some scale down to a faster loading level, some just mess up. So, yeah.

I wont be doing to much web browsing until i can get a proper browser.

When screen turns off after a few minutes, the fan does too. Cool feture!

Need to tag you people @Darkman @tmcclelland455

Thats it for now, more to come!

Day 2:

Wow, had big troubles. Tryied to install debian, didnt work, installed it again, didnt work, spend hours trying to get mac osx bac on and finaly did! Also updated to Tiger 1.4

Minecraft cant run, outdated java, ill see if that can be fixed if i can figure out how to upgrade to 1.5

Youtube now works, but only suitable for audio, the video is 240p and choppy, audio fine.

Web browsing OK, not as bad as i thought.

Linustechtips works fine on it.

Later update: rma'ing my GPU, so now I will be only using the g4. So far, so good. Not too slow, great sound, but YouTube videos only in 240p :(

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Looks neat! Thanks for the review! :) Might even get one :P

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(no ssd in gaming pc)

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The mouse looks like an upside down soap dish.

I should add, you can't scroll or right click with it

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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U WOT M8

Spent the money on the iMac instead

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Might get one aswell :3 always wanted a legit apple product xD

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I should add, you can't scroll or right click with it

 

fuck that, I never thought I'd hear myself say this but I think a trackpad is better.

 

Are you going to use a different mouse?

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I like it. Although I am glad Apple moved away from all the plastic...

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fuck that, I never thought I'd hear myself say this but I think a trackpad is better.

 

Are you going to use a different mouse?

Eh, i havent founda need yet, havent done much web stuff.

I can always hoook up my g602

 

I like it. Although I am glad Apple moved away from all the plastic...

There is more plastic on modern imacs!

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Eh, i havent founda need yet, havent done much web stuff.

I can always hoook up my g602

 

There is more plastic on modern imacs!

But... THE ALUMINIUM!!!

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But... THE ALUMINIUM!!!

The only aluminum in modern imacs is the stand!

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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I love it, its beautiful!

 

But honestly the new iMacs are stunning as hell, especially with the trackpad and wireless keyboard

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It looks really nice for such an old machine...

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I love it, its beautiful!

 

But honestly the new iMacs are stunning as hell, especially with the trackpad and wireless keyboard

I like the g4 better

 

It looks really nice for such an old machine...

IK. i feel its better at doing most non web tasks than my moms imac, thats probably just because hers is so bloated

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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IK. i feel its better at doing most non web tasks than my moms imac, thats probably just because hers is so bloated

If you could get some more RAM it would probably be good at web tasks too

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If you could get some more RAM it would probably be good at web tasks too

Looks like the most i can get is 1gb ram

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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OOOh, after a few minutes of not usings it, when the screen goes blac, the fan turns off.

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Looks like the most i can get is 1gb ram

Ouch thats not much...Oh well I guess it can still be used for other stuff.

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Ouch thats not much...Oh well I guess it can still be used for other stuff.

Yeah. I might get the 1gb, as it wont be to much money. Photoshop 7 runs fine on it.

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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The only aluminum in modern imacs is the stand!

 

Actually, there is the back and screen "chin". Nearly the whole thing is aluminum. 

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Actually, there is the back and screen "chin". Nearly the whole thing is aluminum.

no it's plastic that looks like aluminum

Unless something changed.

Our iMac with the disk drive and no SD card slot is all plastic other than the stand

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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no it's plastic that looks like aluminum

Unless something changed.

Our iMac with the disk drive and no SD card slot is all plastic other than the stand

 

Thats the old iMacs. New ones are completely aluminum. 

 

http://www.apple.com/imac/design/

 

Trust me. 

(I have one. Please don't kill me.)

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Thats the old iMacs. New ones are completely aluminum. 

 

http://www.apple.com/imac/design/

 

Trust me. 

(I have one. Please don't kill me.)

Ah ok.

We have an older imac, and its just plastic that looks like aluminum.

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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I like how that mouse has still been the same up to new computers from Apple

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