Worth remembering is that they won't have the horsepower to play a lot of modern video files, but they oughta handle streaming them to a device that will, if that makes sense?
Music will be fine though, and phone/ipad as a remote control would be nifty. Good homework/writing computer. Flash runs like an inside out dog on them, so less distractions for the kids. — Mike Linnett 07515877812 http://notacello.net On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:02 PM, steveC <st...@craftsathome.net> wrote: > Along those lines, I got a little “second wind” from my Graphite DV by > attaching a TV tuner to it and watching TV through it. Once Comcast went > full-digital, that was no longer an option, so my unit is also looking or > something else to do. It might make a decent terminal for another computer in > the house (ie running a remote desktop technology to access one of the more > modern computers in the house) but the resolution is not all that high these > days to do that. > > I think letting it act as some kind of media player is a decent role. You > might want to Google/Bing around a bit for other ideas… > > > > From: imaclist@googlegroups.com [mailto:imaclist@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Julia Brinckloe > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 3:58 PM > To: imaclist@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: What do you use your (old) iMac for in 2015? > > The snow is a little beauty. I would load a bunch of favorite photos and use > it as an art piece---run slideshows...a great piece for any room. > > If you want to sell it, I want to buy it. But don't sell it. > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Robert Alpizar <sen...@gmail.com > <mailto:sen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > I've got a 2001 Snow 500mhz DV iMac that I can't bring myself to sell or give > away, but I don't just want it to sit in the box. 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