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Wednesday, February 28, 2007


Yes,just both an iMac G3 and should recive it in a couple of days,
it only cost me 140euros(65£) on ebay.co.uk
the tecnical configuration is:

Processor Speed
: 500 MHZ

Hard Disk Drive: 20 GB

RAM
Installed 256mb(expandeble till 1 giga and in the beginning the imacg3 used to have 64mb and run os 9)

Optical Drive
YES

USB Yes( 2 usb,already both on amazon.co.uk a usb hub for 0,01 cent...rock'n'roll! )

Firewire
Yes (some model don't have that,so i'm glad this one does)

Modem Yes

10/100 Network Card Yes




Other On-Board Sound

Operating System 10.3( as i sayd before it was origially designed for os 9 but with the upgrade and everythng it can run os x)





warranty 30 Day RTB






i had to buy a usb keyboard separately, i found the original one for a relativly low price,i decided to go for the origial one coz it has a usb input(or 2,don't remember) and also the apple key. with the keyboard i got the original mouse as well.




but on amazon.co.uk i got for 0,01 cent a 3buttons mouse coz i was told that those kind of mouse pluged in a mac can work fine,with also the second botton abilitated.
the deal is that the right mouse click on mack can be done with ctrl+normal mouse botton.
anyways,we'll see..

still don't know if i'm going to install ubuntu on it or not,we'll see..

that should be about it..
well,i don't really aspect to be able to do much with it,
but it should be a pretty nice machine to use to surf the net, to watch tv shows, films,to use openoffice,skype,gaim(msn), and so on,specially coz the screen is amazing,much better then the wide screan once in my opinion,i mean is like watching to a tv.
also if isn't already installed i'll try to install garageband so that i can finally have a try doying my podcast about dyslexia:Dispodcast.
the reason why i got that machine is to bring it back to italy on june.
so that at home my brother and parents(as well as me) can have a reliable desktop to satisfy their needs.(which are really basic actually:surf the net,download pics from cameras,use openoffice and so on..)
unfortunately i don't think that machine will andle my experiment of tryig all sort of virtual machines on it and so on..lol.

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