Sadly the tray loader pre-dates any sort of Apple Hardware Test CDs...IIRC they came in with the Summer 2000 imacs. I've noticed that in the months before it died, its been tak…

Have you run it through an apple diagnostics disk to have it check everything? I know it sounds weird, but a looping ASD has found many a tricky thing for myself. Also, even with …

Well last week I powered up my iMac to discover it had gone deadskies. It'd boot to the Apple logo (Jag 10.2. 8) , and then freeze, and display static. (like a bad digital TV pi…

I've just ordered a Panasonic UJ-841 DVD-RW for the Lombard. $AU55 inc shipping from the UK and with warranty

The original iBooks (and the later ones, to a lesser degree) were quite difficult to extract the hard drive from and leave the machine looking as it did before it went into surgery…

Update: Just did the RAM/HD swap in the iBook and installed OS 9 no problem. And then discovered all my OS X CDs are pooched. Ordering some new ones. Note to Apple: getting to …

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The other BW G3 and my original BW G3 are now gone. The G4 450 Dual and G3 450 work great. It feels good to give back to Freecycle. I showed the person who picked up one of them…

well, i am happy to report (and unhappy about doing that) I have replaced the Combo drive with a straight DVD Drive. I got enough machines I can burn CDs with, and all I really ne…

Well done! Low End Mac is currently building up people's success stories about Leopard installations on unsupported machines and are looking for folk to report on their finding…

it's running leopard It runs pretty smoothly. I am surprised how well it runs actually. It's nice having two machines that run leopard I now have a desktop mac and a lapt…

Be aware that the eMacs were around during the time of the capacitor plague, so that might be something you want to check into. If you're handy with a soldering iron, it shouldn't…

Yeah, I know about that. While I was in, i checked for ANY signs of that stuff. I gave it a thorough check out. Checked connections, components/etc... Right now, the only probl…

Be aware that the eMacs were around during the time of the capacitor plague, so that might be something you want to check into. If you're handy with a soldering iron, it shouldn't…

I picked up a 1.25ghz eMac off of these boards a while back. Its a nice machine. I mainly use it as an internet radio and I do any scanning I need to do on it. It has the airpor…

well, i delved into the machine, and upped the HDD to 80GB now. it made a HUGE speed increase. Anyways. It was VERY frustrating working on it, because I had to put it back toget…

G4 dual + free = awesome! Congrats.

When I first installed 10.4, it was slow as hell. I mean, apps took like up to 4 minutes to launch. After doing all the updates, and repairing permissions (that was REALLY screwe…

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well, i left the keyboard and mouse, forgot to tell you about that. The mouse they used was a hocky-puck mouse (they got a mini and moved the mouse to that) and the spare keyboard…

uh.. no leopard. people are reporting video problems with the GFX card in these. So tiger it will be. As far as optical drives... Well, the CD/CD-RW functions work I think the…

Very nice price for a decent machine. I remember lusting over these in computer shops several years ago! The CRTs in the eMacs are very crisp IIRC. Getting Leopard on it should…

That's what I use as my main system... mostly for graphics and audio. Very nice for $130. ISTR having some issues with the optical drive at first, but they went away with one of th…

I've got a 700MHz eMac. It is a good system. I don't use it much any more since though. I upgraded and Hard Drive and DVD drive in mine, they are quite a pain to get you. B sure t…

I am picking up an eMac 700Mhz off of Craigslist for $130. it was $135, but since I am the only one serious about it, and am picking it up today, he knocked off $5. specs: eMa…