Two iMac G3/500MHz DVSE Snow machines are the only Macs (amongst 40+ left after a recent change of house) in this house that were bought new. Always-on for 6+ years, with their rear feet elevated on 18mm timber blocks to ensure adequate convection, they ended their active day-in day-out lives running 10.3.9/9.2.2 instead of the 9.0.4 that they brought with them. Text, Web, soundwave editing … they did it all. In the end it was only faster G4 processors and superior and larger ADC displays that supplanted them.

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