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Tweekster · 07-08-2003, 10:27 PM

Actually, you can pick up old (233mz - 333mhz) iMacs pretty cheap........you can find people that will give you an old one........very common problem is the flyback transformer......the Imac turns on, starts to boot, then powers down......a shop charges too much to fix the problem, so the owners buy a new machine and beg someone to take the old one.

Flyback transformers are $45-$80 and take about 1 hour of time to change out.........toss in a 500mhz/1Meg cache proc upgrade ($174), a 40G WD SE drive ($65) and load up OS X (10.2) and you have quite a nice machine.

I have one, kind of fun to play with

07-08-2003, 10:27 PM	#6
Tweekster Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: The Rockies Posts: 31	Actually, you can pick up old (233mz - 333mhz) iMacs pretty cheap........you can find people that will give you an old one........very common problem is the flyback transformer......the Imac turns on, starts to boot, then powers down......a shop charges too much to fix the problem, so the owners buy a new machine and beg someone to take the old one. Flyback transformers are $45-$80 and take about 1 hour of time to change out.........toss in a 500mhz/1Meg cache proc upgrade ($174), a 40G WD SE drive ($65) and load up OS X (10.2) and you have quite a nice machine. I have one, kind of fun to play with __________________ Dual 2400MP \| Dual 2.4 Xeon Last edited by Tweekster; 07-10-2003 at 10:14 PM.