I used a 2008 Mac Pro until last year, it was old and MacOS 10.11 was becoming more and more out of date, and the hardware was starting to have problems. I still have it around, but don't use it much anymore. But I still use my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro, upgraded the HHD to a SSD, and upgraded the ram from 8GB to 16GB. It still works great.
Surprised the cmos battery in mine is still good. It’s a 2007 core 2 duo 17 inch iMac. Technically it’s a late 2006 model but was manufactured in 07 right before the new aluminum models came out. It sat unused and not powered on from 2016-2021 and then 2022-2024. I turned it on about a week or two ago and it worked fine. Had the correct time and everything
Thank you, for sharing this post of the first Intel iMac. In my collection, is this same model a "glossy" white 24-inch iMac All-in-One desktop. Apart from the larger screen, my 24-inch version has both a Fire-wire 400 port and a Fire-wire 800 port. However, I prefer to use my older "glossy" white 20-inch G5 iMac All-in-One desktop the most. This is because, it can run both Mac OS 9 software along with OS X PowerPC programs. (smile ... smile).
@@transitengineer I would like to get my hands on an iMac G5, but the capacitor issue they have makes me reconsider. The fastest PowerPC Mac I have is the 700mhz iMac G4. Getting a Power Mac G5 would be my ultimate goal for PowerPC Macs.
@@thecomputerexperiencechann5084 Thank you, for replying to my post. The capacitor issues appear to have been only on the first series that, came off of the assembly line. While, I have never had this type of issue. Yet, over the years, I have replaced the AirPort Card, the Hard Drive, and upgraded the memory. I am currently, on my third unit because, what always fails on each of my prior 20-inch G5 iMac's over time is, their video controller. Luckily, it does not fail all at once. It starts crashing the monitor's screen over a period of months until finally the screen, just stays black. A better iMac to add to your collection might be, the 24-inch Intel model that came right after the "glossy" white version. It is easy to spot because, its back is all in the color black which, I always thought was pretty cool. (smile ... smile).
Why they didn't choose Core 2? Because the Core 2 came out half a year after this iMac, d'oh! Wonder why they don't choose to build fusion reaction power plants now...
I know, june 6 in 2005. But Apple could have waited for Core 2 anyway. Only a few months... they could have sold PB G4 a few more months... iMac G5 64-bit got replaced by iMac Intel 32-bit. As computing power it was okay but that Mac couldn't use OS X 10.7. 10.6.8 was the latetest version, so sad. 10.7 required a 64-bit CPU. But it looks like iMac Early 2006 got Core Duo on Socket M. Not soldered. There's a 2,33 GHz C2D (T7600). This will not give a huge boost. But maybe this will allow you to install OS X 10.7? It's important to do the upgrade in the perfect way if you also wanna allow 4 GB RAM instead of max 2 GB RAM. Do you know if this upgrade will allow 10.7 on iMac Early 2006 with C2D instead of CD?
For the brightness issue, you can try looking at the event viewer and view the crash log, or you can disable automatic restart on system failure in the system control panel in Windows 7
this is the ultimate batocera machine! i have a 1tb hd with thousands of games and every gaming console from ps2 back although most ps3/xbox360 games work great too! you should make a build for a video!
It would be interesting to see if Batocera could run on it! I don’t think it would be able to emulate much above N64. As a nice small all in one computer and just having a controller plugged in, it wouldn’t be a bad use for it.
These are also ridiculously fragile internally. I brought myself a 24 inch example of one of these and took it apart to clean it and re paste it only to have it not do anything when turned on due to one of the graphics card pins being slightly chipped during reinstalling. Now I just have to turn it into a monitor and shove a core duo Mac mini inside of it 😂
I've got a Late 06 version of this. Its OG peripherals and its camera.Minus the media remote. Still works too, just had it set up not long ago and watched music videos like it was 2010 all over again. Just an all around good time. Im thinking my GPU is during though as in macOS only its got this artifact bar across the middle of the screen, hides under a window though. No matter what background I set its still got it. Weird
I moved to PCs for a decade before purchasing a Mac Mini G4 1.42Ghz back in 2005 to see how Mac OS had evolved. I was so impressed that I purchased an iMac 20" Core Duo 2Ghz in Feb 2006 with my overtime money - they were still selling G5 iMacs alongside. I upgraded it 2Gb of RAM and purchased Leopard and finally Snow Leopard. It ran like a champ, when I moved to a Macbook Pro late-2007, replacing my road warrior I gave the iMac to my wife to use. It always felt fast and responsive but was later traded for a mid-2007 Macbook as we had a small appartment at the time. Such a shame that it had such a short OS support timeframe and low memory ceiling, but this was an Intel limitation rather than Apple.
1:07 thats actually mini dvi. it was used on almost every apple laptop and imac made between late 2003 to around mid 2008
I used a 2008 Mac Pro until last year, it was old and MacOS 10.11 was becoming more and more out of date, and the hardware was starting to have problems. I still have it around, but don't use it much anymore. But I still use my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro, upgraded the HHD to a SSD, and upgraded the ram from 8GB to 16GB. It still works great.
Actually there's a later powerpc variant with the horizontal ports too. The two machines are virtually indistinguishable!
Accept they’re not because one draws like 100W more during load and gets ridiculously hot sitting on the desktop 😂
Surprised the cmos battery in mine is still good. It’s a 2007 core 2 duo 17 inch iMac. Technically it’s a late 2006 model but was manufactured in 07 right before the new aluminum models came out. It sat unused and not powered on from 2016-2021 and then 2022-2024. I turned it on about a week or two ago and it worked fine. Had the correct time and everything
Thank you, for sharing this post of the first Intel iMac. In my collection, is this same model a "glossy" white 24-inch iMac All-in-One desktop. Apart from the larger screen, my 24-inch version has both a Fire-wire 400 port and a Fire-wire 800 port. However, I prefer to use my older "glossy" white 20-inch G5 iMac All-in-One desktop the most. This is because, it can run both Mac OS 9 software along with OS X PowerPC programs. (smile ... smile).
@@transitengineer I would like to get my hands on an iMac G5, but the capacitor issue they have makes me reconsider. The fastest PowerPC Mac I have is the 700mhz iMac G4. Getting a Power Mac G5 would be my ultimate goal for PowerPC Macs.
@@thecomputerexperiencechann5084 Thank you, for replying to my post. The capacitor issues appear to have been only on the first series that, came off of the assembly line. While, I have never had this type of issue. Yet, over the years, I have replaced the AirPort Card, the Hard Drive, and upgraded the memory. I am currently, on my third unit because, what always fails on each of my prior 20-inch G5 iMac's over time is, their video controller. Luckily, it does not fail all at once. It starts crashing the monitor's screen over a period of months until finally the screen, just stays black. A better iMac to add to your collection might be, the 24-inch Intel model that came right after the "glossy" white version. It is easy to spot because, its back is all in the color black which, I always thought was pretty cool. (smile ... smile).
this is fascinating! too bad this model of iMac “died” too early bcs of its CPU choice, i wonder why they didn’t choose Core 2 Duo from the get-go
@@isthattee It is! I can’t say why for sure, but I think you could swap in a Core 2 Duo if you really wanted to.
Why they didn't choose Core 2? Because the Core 2 came out half a year after this iMac, d'oh! Wonder why they don't choose to build fusion reaction power plants now...
It's sad that Apple rushed Core Duo. They should have started the transition to Intel with Core 2 Duo!
@@cjeelde Apple started because they couldn’t make a G5 laptop, they announced the transition in 2005. This is a big change of all software
I know, june 6 in 2005.
But Apple could have waited for Core 2 anyway. Only a few months... they could have sold PB G4 a few more months...
iMac G5 64-bit got replaced by iMac Intel 32-bit. As computing power it was okay but that Mac couldn't use OS X 10.7. 10.6.8 was the latetest version, so sad. 10.7 required a 64-bit CPU.
But it looks like iMac Early 2006 got Core Duo on Socket M. Not soldered. There's a 2,33 GHz C2D (T7600). This will not give a huge boost. But maybe this will allow you to install OS X 10.7? It's important to do the upgrade in the perfect way if you also wanna allow 4 GB RAM instead of max 2 GB RAM.
Do you know if this upgrade will allow 10.7 on iMac Early 2006 with C2D instead of CD?
For the brightness issue, you can try looking at the event viewer and view the crash log, or you can disable automatic restart on system failure in the system control panel in Windows 7
With the leopard firmware updates and CPU flexibility these make fun XP vintage computers as well.
this is the ultimate batocera machine! i have a 1tb hd with thousands of games and every gaming console from ps2 back although most ps3/xbox360 games work great too! you should make a build for a video!
It would be interesting to see if Batocera could run on it! I don’t think it would be able to emulate much above N64. As a nice small all in one computer and just having a controller plugged in, it wouldn’t be a bad use for it.
@ it works fine for all systems below ps2. N64 is no problem, and I didn’t try GameCube but I think it will work
Ps2 works as well but newer than that the games get choppy
1:16 plastic will only bend for little time before it just breaks apart. Metal would bend if too weak.
These are also ridiculously fragile internally. I brought myself a 24 inch example of one of these and took it apart to clean it and re paste it only to have it not do anything when turned on due to one of the graphics card pins being slightly chipped during reinstalling. Now I just have to turn it into a monitor and shove a core duo Mac mini inside of it 😂
I've got a Late 06 version of this. Its OG peripherals and its camera.Minus the media remote. Still works too, just had it set up not long ago and watched music videos like it was 2010 all over again. Just an all around good time. Im thinking my GPU is during though as in macOS only its got this artifact bar across the middle of the screen, hides under a window though. No matter what background I set its still got it. Weird
Funny enough dos dude did make a pre-made image of os x lion which can run on the core duo macs yes full 32bit just look it up and it will pop up
wow, I didnt remember that core duo was 32 bit!!
It's crazy how these are now old enough that they all have dead clock batteries.
Change CMOS battery and make sure that Mac OS is fully updated to check all the firmware's updates
I moved to PCs for a decade before purchasing a Mac Mini G4 1.42Ghz back in 2005 to see how Mac OS had evolved. I was so impressed that I purchased an iMac 20" Core Duo 2Ghz in Feb 2006 with my overtime money - they were still selling G5 iMacs alongside. I upgraded it 2Gb of RAM and purchased Leopard and finally Snow Leopard. It ran like a champ, when I moved to a Macbook Pro late-2007, replacing my road warrior I gave the iMac to my wife to use. It always felt fast and responsive but was later traded for a mid-2007 Macbook as we had a small appartment at the time. Such a shame that it had such a short OS support timeframe and low memory ceiling, but this was an Intel limitation rather than Apple.
how small of an apartment did you move into that you couldnt fit a macbook pro in there? lmao
Windows 10 pls