I had, until recently, near 'nuff identical (8/2001 and 3/2002) Indigo iMac/500s, with 768 and 1024MB of RAM, side-by-side on my desk and running 10.3.9/9.2.2 and 10.4.11/9.2.2 on partitions. Very handy for eBay last-moment bidding. Tiger was marginally faster, but their stability was near rock-like in both cases. Tiger was my Web machine of choice because of its greater security. Both have now been superseded by a G4/1GHz DP MDD with Tiger, not least because its multiple drive capacity allows dual booting of Tiger and Jaguar, the latter formerly running on a Snow iMac/500/1GB (7/2000) for the sake of Spark XL 2.8.2. The MDD can also handle a 20" ADC display.

All three iMacs remain in good order, and will make perfectly useful desktop appliances for those to whom I give them away. I lived happily with one or other iMac as my principal machine for nearly 8 years, but nothing now would tear me away from my ADC displays.

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