>thriftstores will sell ishit for 3 bucks each
kek
>>54788815
They are shit.
>>54788815
what are you gonna do with that 14 year old computer?
You got scammed by 2.99$
>>54788831
sell it as an ironic hipster photoframe for $100
>>54788831
It could work nicely as a paperweight, an expensive paperweight.
thrift stores are pretty good for finding audio gear but not much else
>>54788831
MAYBE use it as an extra monitor?
>>54788815
>ancient powerpc imacs
the average poo loo smartphone is more powerful than those
They belonged to a library, school, or business. They were rode hard and put up wet for years before somebody dumped them at a thrift store.
>>54788865
Can you even do that? I don't think you can do that. You'd have to "engineer" a input port somehow.
Only thing I can see using that for, is for whatever purpose it was designed for 14 years ago. It makes a nice general purpose office computer running whatever software was new in 2003. It would be great for businesses just to keep up with their menial shit.
Aww shit are those some PowerPC iLamps?
I bet some macfags would pay more than three dollars to take them off your hands
>>54788837
/thread
>>54788815
Make sweet lamps and sell them for $300
>>54788918
Aside from the fact that it's a physical apple advertisement, that is pretty fucking sweet.
Maybe jam an itx setup in the base...replace the screen with a modern touch panel perhaps. Really this particular design seems a bit suited for a touchscreen setup.
Seriously they have unique cases...gut it and use it for something. I'd buy one just to experiment
>>54788815
i sold a few of those on ebay for ~$100 each a couple years ago
But who's DW?
It's free hard drive space for porn if you need it
Oh here's a simpler idea.
Just replace screen with any decent Android tablet...add mouse and keyboard and instant cheap secondary desktop/web browser/media player...
jesus fuck this thread is underage
>>54789516
OK, what would you do with them Grandpa Jobs?
>>54789309
This is my thought. The design is awesome and way more interesting than basically anything we've seen since, but the hardware has aged like cheese.
Pop in a higher resolution LCD panel and some form of compact modern PC and you'd have something both usable and unique. For bonus points, remove the optical drive but leave the flap in place and outfit the slot with a hotswap HDD bay (or even two if you're using laptop drives/SSDs).
>>54788815
You overpaid by about $10, they should be paying you just to get rid of them.
>>54788815
I spent like $5 on all mine, the recycler will practically give shit away to me.
Lent my high-end '02 17'' model to my grandma's store as a point of sale box, did a pretty good job of it but I eventually took it back and swapped it out for something a little better for quick web surfing, put it work as a nice looking terminal, email/wiki surfer and mathematica box.
PC133 hobbles the shit out of the earlier ones though, still good goers but pretty painful as a web surfer with Camino/TenFourFox.
>>54788886
It's not even a standard connection to the motherboard. Don't waste you time trying. I'd also advise to be careful opening these up because of how the heat pipe is glued to the CPU and GPU. They're embedded on the motherboard and if you man handle it you can rip them right out. The insides are spaghetti. Everything sits on top of one another with the PSU divided into two parts on the top.
>>54789530
download a bunch of software from macintoshgarden or other abandonware sites
use it for basic productivity, music production, photoshop, whatever, still does the same shit it always did, the only thing they're really bad for is mindless content consumption because the modern web is a bloated out abomination
>>54789309
Good luck getting anything useful in that space that doesn't look like total fucking shit.
people buy that crap for 100$
>>54789759
Several people have modded iLamps with decent success in the past. It's not too terrible as long as you're not married to keeping the PSU inside the dome.
>>54788831
wait 30 or 40 years and sell it as vintage
the saddest thing about this is that they probably bought new iCrap
>implying that they don't get their shit for free
>>54788815
ill stick with my samsung syncmaster tyvm
>>54788815
>buying ishit for 3 bucks each
i wouldnt even accept it for free
>>54789789
Making an actually good one can be pretty involved, though.
Every time I see some half-ass gaymer on /g/ posting about modding PPC Macs all I can picture is a frankensteined horror with a giant ass mangled hole in the back and spaghetti all over the place.
>>54788831
Put Linux on it.
>>54789910
Surely they mean 4.99
>>54790092
Oh no question, it's still quite a task no matter how you approach it. If I were planning to do a mod of that sort I'd make a point of getting decent with a soldering gun and gaining a decent understanding of port pinouts first.
>>54789619
This.
I'm a massive macfag, but when someone tried to pawn tone of those heaps of trash off on me Immediately declined the offer. They're literally not worth the time of effort and belong in a recycling facility.
>>54790125
Yeah, it was $5.37 with tax or something like that. I don't know why, but the employees in that store don't use punctuation.
It came with only one intact antenna though, but that's okay since I want to put high gain ones on anyway.
>>54790319
>They're literally not worth the time of effort and belong in a recycling facility.
That depends on what you want to do with them.
OS X and OS 9 both have pretty big software bases and some pretty neato/fun shit to mess with, and there are plenty of "basic" jobs where a lampshade iMac would be just fine and look really nice while it does it.
