After thinking it over and talking with my dad, I decided to keep it. My dad really doesn't want it, and while I would rather have a different mac, I decided against selling it (as I am not sure what the future will hold or how long my macbook pro will hold up) and at least for the short term, play with it a bit.
So since i had my 60GB SSD sitting around, I cracked open the iMac and proceeded to upgrade the 500GB HDD to the 60GB OCZ Vertex II. I got trim enabler and TRIM has now been enabled on the SSD.
The machine from a dead start, once the chime will be at the desktop in 9 seconds. Not bad for a boot?
that's with Lion
I can live with the iMac and really don't want to mess with selling at and I might as well not look down a free mac. It will suffice for many of my needs and will probably serve me (if I keep it) for a few years. I hit ebay and had a Mini-DVI -> DVI adapter sent to me for a total of $2.99 w/ shipping, so I can hook it to one of my spare monitors (like my 1920x1080) and run with dual LCDs. The internal will be fine but I could use the extra real-estate so I can share my ASUS HD LED display with the iMac and the touch of a button on the LCD it can switch to my PC when I need it. It will be a welcome improvement over the rather small LCD.
It's quick enough and can do quite a bit. I will leave any data storage up to my server with the Gigabit Ethernet network, which will make quick transfers.
The DVD Drive is on the fritz like I Recalled. It will burn/read DVDs, but will not burn CDs even though it will read them. The speakers are in very good condition but I will have it hooked up to my sound system.
One of the reasons I decided to keep it as it doesn't take up much space (same as an LCD) and it has the webcam so I can facetime with my friends while sitting at my desk. Beats taking out my macbook pro for that and finding a place to put it.
the SSD specs are at the bottom:
http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=571268&doc2=1&setCookie=true
So since i had my 60GB SSD sitting around, I cracked open the iMac and proceeded to upgrade the 500GB HDD to the 60GB OCZ Vertex II. I got trim enabler and TRIM has now been enabled on the SSD.
The machine from a dead start, once the chime will be at the desktop in 9 seconds. Not bad for a boot?
that's with Lion
I can live with the iMac and really don't want to mess with selling at and I might as well not look down a free mac. It will suffice for many of my needs and will probably serve me (if I keep it) for a few years. I hit ebay and had a Mini-DVI -> DVI adapter sent to me for a total of $2.99 w/ shipping, so I can hook it to one of my spare monitors (like my 1920x1080) and run with dual LCDs. The internal will be fine but I could use the extra real-estate so I can share my ASUS HD LED display with the iMac and the touch of a button on the LCD it can switch to my PC when I need it. It will be a welcome improvement over the rather small LCD.
It's quick enough and can do quite a bit. I will leave any data storage up to my server with the Gigabit Ethernet network, which will make quick transfers.
The DVD Drive is on the fritz like I Recalled. It will burn/read DVDs, but will not burn CDs even though it will read them. The speakers are in very good condition but I will have it hooked up to my sound system.
One of the reasons I decided to keep it as it doesn't take up much space (same as an LCD) and it has the webcam so I can facetime with my friends while sitting at my desk. Beats taking out my macbook pro for that and finding a place to put it.
the SSD specs are at the bottom:
http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=571268&doc2=1&setCookie=true