IMac g5s are pure bliss to work on.
My grandparents gave me a broken imac g5 17 and for about $100 I replaced the
power supply. It was about half an hour of labor tops (but I also installed a
hard drive, and re opened it because I had forgotten to plug in the power
supply *facepalm*)
Emacs...
On Feb 28, 2010, at 3:41 PM, Austin Leeds wrote:
I'm thinking about buying some broken iMacs (any model but G3) off
eBay for refurbishment. Has anybody here been in their iMac and tried
to repair it, and how easy was it? Would it be worth it?
Probably not.
G3 iMacs could probably not be
G4 Imacs weren't designed by satan, he outsourced after designing the
dual-USB Ibook. I much rather take apart a G4 Imac(typing on one now
that I've done a teardown/rebuild on several times) than that Ibook.
The G3s Emacs aren't worth it and the G5's and up are fairly easy
in comparison.
At 2:41 PM -0800 2/28/2010, Austin Leeds wrote:
I'm thinking about buying some broken iMacs (any model but G3) off
eBay for refurbishment. Has anybody here been in their iMac and tried
to repair it, and how easy was it? Would it be worth it?
Be very careful working out the logistics. It's a
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Austin Leeds
firepowerforfree...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking about buying some broken iMacs (any model but G3) off
eBay for refurbishment. Has anybody here been in their iMac and tried
to repair it, and how easy was it? Would it be worth it?
If you're going
On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:46 AM, John Musbach wrote:
Who cares about being rich? If he has a passion for what he's doing,
all he needs to do is charge enough to break even counting the costs
of utilities and
Overhead
whatever wage he has assigned himself.
Commonly known as 'profit'.
Barring
At 10:04 AM -0700 3/1/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Now, chancing upon a surplus auction or such and getting 5
pallet-loads of iMacs
I seem to have a difficult relationship with Murphy... Every time I
find someone offering a pallet'o'Macs, it's either right after I
donated my bank account to
On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Dan wrote:
At 10:04 AM -0700 3/1/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Now, chancing upon a surplus auction or such and getting 5 pallet-
loads of iMacs
I seem to have a difficult relationship with Murphy... Every time I
find someone offering a pallet'o'Macs, it's
