Free Imac

[doomsriker]

When I Found a posting for a free Imac on craigslist, I was understandably skeptical. My first assumption was that it was either stolen or a scam. As I would learn later What was pictured was an imac G5, which is not worth much anyways, but the story is much more interesting than that. I called the guy up and arranged to meet him in a public parking lot in daylight just in case. When I arrived, a very polite middle aged man stepped out of a 1980s station wagon. He explained that he was a teacher that had used the computer in his classroom. He also brought along two more Imacs and said those were "broken" but mine if I wanted them, after all they were donated to him by parents so he had no monetary investment in them.   Containing my excitement as I noticed the aluminum body on one of the two additional Imacs I said "yea sure, I fix things". Finally, I thanked him shook his hand, said "have a great day", and drove off with my haul. When I got home I tested the computers and found, after a little tinkering with the OS that they all worked just fine. I was ecstatic. So, I decided to keep the aluminum core 2 duo machine and sell the G5s at my local used computer store. They only gave me 30$ for the two, but who cares, money. And I turned around and used that money to buy 4 gigs off ram for my new Imac, which will allow me to upgrade to el capitan. So all told, I ended up with a 2007 20" Imac with a core 2 duo and 1 gb of ram absolutely free. Furthermore, even after the 22$ for more ram, if you consider the 30$ I made, i'm still 8$ in the green on this project.  This is one apple product that was not overpriced. This post was written on my new Imac. (update to come when the 4gbs of ram come and I update to el capitan) (please excuse the badly lit photos of the G5s, I only took a few photos before selling them)

[Zando_]

WOW! Nice find! And beautiful iMac!

[Guest]

Dang bro nice. I should look for free stuff on Craigslist more often to try and find stuff like this.

[DrMacintosh]

Damn, nice. 

 

 

[NumLock21]

Nice!

 

This sharing of your awesome story must made you forget to cover up your real name.

 

[doomsriker]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Nice one Andrew

 

This sharing of your awesome story must made you forget to cover up your real name. Andrew

 

noticed that right after posting but figured whatever lol

[NumLock21]

Just now, doomsriker said:

noticed that right after posting but figured whatever lol

quick edit post to cover it before anyone else sees it.

[doomsriker]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

quick edit post to cover it before anyone else sees it.

its too late, the world knows 

[doomsriker]

10 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

WOW! Nice find! And beautiful iMac!

Thanks! I was shocked at the great condition of this 10 year old Mac TBH. 

[NumLock21]

6 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

its too late, the world knows 

so far only 29 people have know it out of the 7 billion, there is still chance.

 

I like how you meet up at Lucky Supermarket. Well that day was your lucky day.

 

Update

41 random strangers now know your name

[doomsriker]

6 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

so far only 29 people have know it out of the 7 billion, there is still chance.

 

I like how you meet up at Lucky Supermarket. Well that day was your lucky day.

 

Update

41 random strangers now know your name

lol, its a pretty common name though. Throw a dart at a board of boys names and you have a good chance of hiting Andrew.  

[NumLock21]

5 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

lol, its a pretty common name though. Throw a dart at a board of boys names and you have a good chance of hiting Andrew.  

Yeah Andrew is a pretty common name, but for you, everyone now knows, your Andrew with the free iMac.

47 people now. 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47 47

[doomsriker]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Yeah Andrew is a pretty common name, but for you, everyone now knows, your Andrew with the free iMac.

.........my doors have been boarded for the coming mobs. 

[Ordinarily_Greater]

17 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

Thanks! I was shocked at the great condition of this 10 year old Mac TBH. 

Yyeah my friend did an upgrade but basically just making the old case MacG5 to contain new system with 1080Ti FE