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screen held with magnets ? ah the steve jobs era, now tim cook glues everything to the point itll break if u try and repair anything uself and apple charges £500 for a bit of glass
MacBook Pro 2012, every upgradable, powerful, portable, lovable design iMac 2012, chunky, slow processor, pretty bad graphics chip, limited ram upgradability, not portable + a nightmare of every highschool art student (not sure if they used them all over the world but every school I went to had these big Chungus iMacs in the art and graphics design labs and oh boy were they slow)
It's because people think their old laptop with 4gb of ram and a 500gb 5400rpm hard drive is worth more because of the apple logo. Oh, and the displays are sub hd, 1200x800 is not hd, 1280x720 is.
The last few years of mac design where Apple was still holding onto the idea of usability was fantastic - Great upgradable iMacs, upgradable Macbooks with decent ports, a Mac Pro that was both not a trash can and actually relatively affordable even for the average user - even the Mac Mini was upgradable to a certain extent. The fact that so many people are still using these is as testament to how important upgradabilty is, but I guess that's why Apple suddenly turned against the idea - they want you keep buying new hardware, even if the old would still be fine if it had a bit more RAM and such.
@@monum I'm partial to the iPhone 3GS so 2009 came to mind... But yeah, the physical designs came out in 2003 (Power Mac->Mac Pro), 2007 (iMac), 2008 (MacBook Pro and iPhone), and Snow Leopard which came out that year had the same exact UI as Leopard from 2007. So, I guess 2007 would be more of a sweet spot for looks, 2008 or 2009 for hardware. Already in late 2009 we had the glass-to-the-edge iMac, which kinda doesn't do it for me.
@@jonstechchannel I usually donate my old tech to relatives or kids in need. Of course before send the computers away I do simple cleaning (dust, thermal paste) and OS reinstall. Giving those machines a second chance to be again useful makes me feel good. :)
2009 computer in 2019: Totally usable 1999 computer in 2009: Seriously meh 1989 computer in 1999: lol what's this crap? 1979 computer in 1989: Oooh, an Apple ][! I remember those! 1969 computer in 1979: What is all that equipment in my house? I can't even find the bathroom! 1959 computer in 1969: It's old, sir, but assuming we can get the right power hookups for it, it can still help with our ballistics tables. 1949 computer in 1959: What the heck is this? Why did you just put a huge stack of relays in the storage room? 1939 computer in 1949: Nice Curta calclulator. I'll set the numbers if you crank the handle
I serviced a large bunch of these iMacs a few months ago. Relatively easy to work on. They can take up to 10.11.6 El Capitan too. I also forgot to connect some things or connected them wrong too so I had to do a lot of reassembling
I'm writing this from my mid 2011 21.5'' iMac i bought in 2012. I swapped the HDD with a SSD two years ago and it works great for being a model from 9 years ago. The only downside is that it's stuck with macOS High Sierra.
Very nice, two weeks ago i found an imac 24" from 2007 in a dumpster, it work well but now i'm asking me some question, did i need to change the CPU ? And which one should i put ? Did you have any advice or opinion on the necessity of this ?
My friend used to have this machine. I remember begging my parents to buy me one, but they said no, so I had to work part time. It was the sweetest day of my life at the time when I finally saved enough money to buy an iMac. Can’t believe that was 10 years ago. Memories
These Macs are bulletproof if looked after properly. My 2008 24” has been left on daily since the day I bought it. Still runs as smooth as butter, not failed once and is still perfectly usable for fairly complex tasks. Has cost me about 20p per day to run. Feels like it will run forever.
Very cool video of this machine. I am glad you share your "MISTAKES" when working on these machines. Would you kindly take it apart one more time and upgrade the CPU? Just a thought for another video.
i love to watch these because i want to be a coder and other computer stuff i love that u take it apart and clean it so i can learn about stuff like floppy drives and motherboards plz keepup with the good work
When lockdown started I started using one of these for my work at home duties, wich mostly consist on checking mail and using Teams, the rest I just remote into my office PC for the powerful tasks. This iMac is slow by today standards, but for typical use it's fine. I did upgrade to an SSD, 6 GB of RAM and also had the video card upgraded from the 128 MB 2400 XT to a 256 MB 2600 XT.
I've been watching your videos for a few weeks now, but what ultimately made me subscribe today was your amazing RUclips thumbnail guide you went over.
I have quite a few Macs from 2007-2011 still in use today and none had any problems so far. Their built quality is WAY BETTER compared to the latest Macs which exhibit all kind of hardware problems from time to time...
Did the same thing on an early-2008 20inch iMac. With it's 2.4Ghz Core2Duo, 6gbs of DDR2 ram, and a lil' 128gb SSD, it's running Catalina surprisingly nicely!
Well done cleaning and restoring the 20" Early 2009 iMac! I have a 24" Early 2008 iMac which is STILL my main computer after 11 years. Over its lifetime I've maxed the RAM from a paltry 2G to 6GB and swapped the 500GB HDD for a 240GB SanDisk SSD. Earlier in the year the ATI Radeon 2600 Pro 256MB GPU died. Fortunately I sourced the exact same model iMac (the top end model, mine's the next one down) on Gumtree 20 minutes away, dead HDD and bad cosmetics selling for parts. I first disassembled my iMac and gave everything a good clean. Then I swapped out the entire logic board with its 2.8GHz C2D CPU to the top-of-the-line 3.06GHz, swapped the dead GPU with the top end NVIDIA GeForce 8800GS 512MB and swapped the LCD display too, which was in great shape. I now practically have a new iMac! That said, it's showing its age. It's stuck on El Capitan, Safari runs slow although 1080/60 RUclips videos plays smoothly. Chrome is a little slow if multiple tabs are open. Google maps in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari is a slideshow, although the Google Earth app and built-in Maps app works absolutely fine. CSGO used to play well a few years back but now it's a slideshow. Outside of those situations the computer works great. I will be using it for the next year or two but I do anticipate finally getting a new iMac.
@@dragontechroyale4k447 pay 700 dollars for a phone with the same specs as a 300 dollar one. only difference between them being the software, the hardware design and the 400 dollar apple tax.
I’m mixed on that one. I was looking a lot at pc and Mac prices for Black Friday, and a factory refurbished 2019 13” MacBook Pro with a 4 core i5, 8gb ram, 128gb ssd cost as much as a surface pro, thinkpad, or xps with the exact same specs. Can you get a slightly better gaming pc for that $1,100 price tag? Yes. But you can’t really travel with a gaming pc like you can with a laptop, or even an iMac.
To be honest if this Motherboard could take Core 2 Quadro, using one of them would be a good idea. These CPUs now are cheap as dirt and yet have much better performance over Core 2 Duo.
When I heard you saying 42 degrees I was like "That seems cold", cuz I thought that Australia like USA uses Fahrenheit. Well, I was wrong, you literally have the temperature I have.. ..on 20th day of June.
Only the US uses Fahrenheit, and even then, a lot of our science and industry types use the metric system. NASA is all-metric now, to the best of my knowledge. Computer core temperatures are almost always expressed in Celcius, even in the U.S. All of the US scales (Fahrenheit, miles, etc.) are defined based on metric scales, and no longer based on the old definitions (although very, very close to the old values). So the entire world is pretty much metric, only the U.S. has a facade of using an imperial scale (which is actually defined by metric units)
Australia went to fully metric measures in 1973, having switched to decimal currency in 1966. However imperial measurements are still used for marketing purposes with Tyres (like the rest of the world, Michelin TRX metric sizes never caught on). In the days of CRTs, they were all sold in centimetres, but since flatscreen technologies have reverted to being marketed in inches. Apparently the smaller numbers inches are expressed in are easier for consumers to remember, which was a reason given for the failure of Michelin TRX Tyres as well. A 16” tyre is easier to remember than a 390mm tyre
love your work... i also live in australia, i have just picked up a 2010 iMac 21.5 and would like to pop a SSD into it. we aren't as blessed here as the US for access to economical SSD's, so what do you suggest domestically ? cheers
My 2008 version still in use with 6gig ram and 250gb ssd. only thong i had to do once was replace the backlight power supply (IIRC) as there was a a dull area.
I'm actually watching this video with this same exact iMac ! I've been using it since 2009, it still works great, even if it's not as fast as before (changed the RAM from 1GO to 8GO). Can't believe i bought it 1099€ and now it doesn't cost anything anymore, how sad is that
found one for $50 dollars on craigslist, brought it home, set it up, reinstalled macOS (was used at a school and was locked up) and now I use it all the time.
Hi! I'm a new subscriber to your channel. I love your the passion about restoring apple products, but started wondering what do you do with all those restored computers?
I have an iMac (early 2009). It used to be my main computer for a long time until I upgraded my pc in around 2015. I still have it in my closet to this day and open it once in a while
Yep , same here , upgrading tomorrow but she has been an amazing journey . Have seen friends go through many computers that still don't hold up as well as the 2008 Imac .
These are some of the best looking (and functioning) computers Apple has ever produced. It's great seeing them getting a new lease on life with these restorations. I personally have a 2011 Core i5 21.5" that I love and hope to put a Core i9 in someday to keep it peppy.
it is all about the ssd. If you put an ssd in any old computer + also give it a good clean with new thermal paste it will instantly become much more usable.
I have a late 2009 27" iMac and after two failed HDDs (one under warranty, the other not), I bought a 1TB SSD and had it installed. Love it and after 11 years it's still going strong. I reckon I will have it for the rest of my life. I'd like to change out the screen though because there are some faint vertical lines on it that you can see only on a dark screen. But they are so faint it doesn't bother me that much. I don't know why people say these only last a few years. They can last forever with only a few parts changed and mine is proof.
Yep , same here , upgrading tomorrow but she has been an amazing journey . Have seen friends go through many computers that still don't hold up as well as the 2008 Imac .
Nice video! I am still using the same machine for basic work. I wrote my phd thesis on this mac, but also played half-life 2 for example. And way too much minecraft... All in all a good investment. 😁
I just came over from Austin's video featuring you, and find it kinda hilarious that I'm watching a video about a 2009 iMac whilst using a 2009 iMac (21.5", 3.06GHz C2D, 16GB DDR3, GeForce 9400, 500GB HDD) that I got nearly a year ago refurbished off eBay for like $130 AUD.
I just bought a 2009 iMac as well a couple of days ago and on the display you can see white faint lines on the screen, I also saw it on your display as well. Is this a Graphics card failure or just need to install a new display?
HI mate, I just watched this video today and noticed that just like the day you filmed this, today was again42 degrees in Adelaide as i was watching this too. Hope you stayed cool today...I spent the whole day in the air conditioning. All the best. Steve from Adelaide.
Glad to finally get another video out to y'all 👌 Don't think I mentioned it but the iMac had 4GB of ram 🙂 Going to try and get a video out every week, enjoy!
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screen held with magnets ? ah the steve jobs era, now tim cook glues everything to the point itll break if u try and repair anything uself and apple charges £500 for a bit of glass
Bro can i contact you need some Help
is this machine upgradable? like the ram etc?
I love your videos 👍👍 how would you pronounce your name though?
I have one of these bad boys which I need to repair in my 12 faulty macs series on my channel , check it out if you get a chance
Gonna take that thumbnail advice thanks
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Austin Evans hi I’m subscribed
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@@RamLaska AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I bought bosisto’s due to this channel
I feel calmer and happier, already!
2012 IMac - $400
2012 MacBook Pro - $1000
eBay Logic.
There is much more demand for laptops on eBay vs office desktops
*S T O N K S*
MacBook Pro 2012, every upgradable, powerful, portable, lovable design
iMac 2012, chunky, slow processor, pretty bad graphics chip, limited ram upgradability, not portable + a nightmare of every highschool art student (not sure if they used them all over the world but every school I went to had these big Chungus iMacs in the art and graphics design labs and oh boy were they slow)
Like the Robot said, in the first Lost in Space tv series "It does not compute", the price disparity. As Spock would say "It is not logical"
It's because people think their old laptop with 4gb of ram and a 500gb 5400rpm hard drive is worth more because of the apple logo. Oh, and the displays are sub hd, 1200x800 is not hd, 1280x720 is.
An underrated iMac. 2009 was probably Apple's finest year in design.
The last few years of mac design where Apple was still holding onto the idea of usability was fantastic - Great upgradable iMacs, upgradable Macbooks with decent ports, a Mac Pro that was both not a trash can and actually relatively affordable even for the average user - even the Mac Mini was upgradable to a certain extent. The fact that so many people are still using these is as testament to how important upgradabilty is, but I guess that's why Apple suddenly turned against the idea - they want you keep buying new hardware, even if the old would still be fine if it had a bit more RAM and such.
@@theblah12 I wholeheartedly share your view. I have an iMac mid 2011; it was my first and will be my last Apple product I purchase!
I think this was a 2007 design...
@@monum I'm partial to the iPhone 3GS so 2009 came to mind... But yeah, the physical designs came out in 2003 (Power Mac->Mac Pro), 2007 (iMac), 2008 (MacBook Pro and iPhone), and Snow Leopard which came out that year had the same exact UI as Leopard from 2007. So, I guess 2007 would be more of a sweet spot for looks, 2008 or 2009 for hardware. Already in late 2009 we had the glass-to-the-edge iMac, which kinda doesn't do it for me.
I still use this iMac
i dont want to imagine how many computers this man has...
I doubt He would keep them. Eeck!
@@WarriorsPhoto I think he has storage for a lot of thesep
I mean all of of computer guys have far too many computers, it hurts to think about how many I have....
Jon's Tech Channel Me three. :(
@@jonstechchannel I usually donate my old tech to relatives or kids in need. Of course before send the computers away I do simple cleaning (dust, thermal paste) and OS reinstall. Giving those machines a second chance to be again useful makes me feel good. :)
Haha, I laughed so hard at your thumbnail creation tips xD
Toooo
2009 computer in 2019: Totally usable
1999 computer in 2009: Seriously meh
1989 computer in 1999: lol what's this crap?
1979 computer in 1989: Oooh, an Apple ][! I remember those!
1969 computer in 1979: What is all that equipment in my house? I can't even find the bathroom!
1959 computer in 1969: It's old, sir, but assuming we can get the right power hookups for it, it can still help with our ballistics tables.
1949 computer in 1959: What the heck is this? Why did you just put a huge stack of relays in the storage room?
1939 computer in 1949: Nice Curta calclulator. I'll set the numbers if you crank the handle
the reason why a 2009 computer is usable in 2019 is because it has a better cpu since technology evolved really fast in the 2000s
@@haru9666 it's a joke
2019 computer in 2029: "rofl this cant even turn on"
A 1999 pc in 2009 would be unusable for internet
R.L. Dane 2019 computer in 2029: just start on please just start
“The original sticker covering the apple was still stuck on”
*rips it off*
Old people: has a heart attack
He shouldve cleaned it first THEN remove it
Yall are 5
@@stormie909 how?~
@@izzy.cecilia LMAO I don’t remember making that comment. Tbh it doesn’t make sense
@@stormie909 LOL
It's nuts how diminishing returns plays into computers being priced years later, like my God man, $50 and not just for this, but for more... wow.
ur comment ain’t famous!
it wasnt worth 1999$ when it came out either, just retards think it was LoL
I still use one of these! My dad got one for free at his work, it’s great for music production
My dad also got one of this for free at work! Does it run smoothly for music production?
Always fun and relaxing to watch you take apart, clean, and restore these old machines.
I serviced a large bunch of these iMacs a few months ago. Relatively easy to work on. They can take up to 10.11.6 El Capitan too. I also forgot to connect some things or connected them wrong too so I had to do a lot of reassembling
I'm writing this from my mid 2011 21.5'' iMac i bought in 2012. I swapped the HDD with a SSD two years ago and it works great for being a model from 9 years ago. The only downside is that it's stuck with macOS High Sierra.
upgrade it with more ram if needed
you can always run a patcher to get it upgraded to macos monterey or even ventura
not gonna lie, you place cleanliness as 1st priority instead of actually reviewing and upgrading
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Very nice, two weeks ago i found an imac 24" from 2007 in a dumpster, it work well but now i'm asking me some question, did i need to change the CPU ? And which one should i put ?
Did you have any advice or opinion on the necessity of this ?
My friend used to have this machine. I remember begging my parents to buy me one, but they said no, so I had to work part time. It was the sweetest day of my life at the time when I finally saved enough money to buy an iMac. Can’t believe that was 10 years ago. Memories
These Macs are bulletproof if looked after properly. My 2008 24” has been left on daily since the day I bought it. Still runs as smooth as butter, not failed once and is still perfectly usable for fairly complex tasks. Has cost me about 20p per day to run. Feels like it will run forever.
the quality of your videos is amazing. I love the chill music that makes a comfy vibe. just 14k away from 100k. ♥️
Now 100k
Now 180K
It's amazing that the design doesn't look old. Futuristic design.
Very cool video of this machine. I am glad you share your "MISTAKES" when working on these machines. Would you kindly take it apart one more time and upgrade the CPU? Just a thought for another video.
i love to watch these because i want to be a coder and other computer stuff i love that u take it apart and clean it so i can learn about stuff like floppy drives and motherboards
plz keepup with the good work
When lockdown started I started using one of these for my work at home duties, wich mostly consist on checking mail and using Teams, the rest I just remote into my office PC for the powerful tasks. This iMac is slow by today standards, but for typical use it's fine. I did upgrade to an SSD, 6 GB of RAM and also had the video card upgraded from the 128 MB 2400 XT to a 256 MB 2600 XT.
I've been watching your videos for a few weeks now, but what ultimately made me subscribe today was your amazing RUclips thumbnail guide you went over.
I still have this iMac and use it regularly despite the fact that I build a custom one. It still works fine
did u have to take it apart to clean it?
This got randomly suggested to me. It’s so satisfying to watch !!
7:38 that boot sound feeling...😂😂👏
i feel u
I have quite a few Macs from 2007-2011 still in use today and none had any problems so far. Their built quality is WAY BETTER compared to the latest Macs which exhibit all kind of hardware problems from time to time...
Try Dosdude1’s macOS Catalina patcher to install macOS Catalina on unsupported macs
iOS 5 nope
FlamingKillerMC it probably does not because it's optimized for it.
FlamingKillerMC not get slowed
Marc lluminate Yeah their is a tutorial on his channel and all of the graphical performance is fully working
@iOS 5 With an ssd and maxed out ram no.I'm running Catalina on a mid 2009 Macbook Pro 4gb and ssd runs flawlessy.
Watching this on the same machine! C2D 2,66 Ghz - SSD - 8 gigs of RAM. Still holds up really well, it runs High Sierra using Dosdude1's patcher.
When you said "10 years ago" I thought about 2000... Time goes by fast
I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that 1997 (the year I graduated) was 22 years ago!
Becky Lawson ok boomer
@@LeopioReborn Lol shut up fortnite kid. Time does go by fast...
@@LeopioReborn Nope, no boomer here... but if I was, it would just mean I know more than you.
@Nramanoodles Seriously, ENJOY IT.
I'd give anything to go back to my HS days!
Nice Mac Review. good to see these old machines still up and running.
Did the same thing on an early-2008 20inch iMac.
With it's 2.4Ghz Core2Duo, 6gbs of DDR2 ram, and a lil' 128gb SSD, it's running Catalina surprisingly nicely!
Well done cleaning and restoring the 20" Early 2009 iMac!
I have a 24" Early 2008 iMac which is STILL my main computer after 11 years. Over its lifetime I've maxed the RAM from a paltry 2G to 6GB and swapped the 500GB HDD for a 240GB SanDisk SSD. Earlier in the year the ATI Radeon 2600 Pro 256MB GPU died. Fortunately I sourced the exact same model iMac (the top end model, mine's the next one down) on Gumtree 20 minutes away, dead HDD and bad cosmetics selling for parts. I first disassembled my iMac and gave everything a good clean. Then I swapped out the entire logic board with its 2.8GHz C2D CPU to the top-of-the-line 3.06GHz, swapped the dead GPU with the top end NVIDIA GeForce 8800GS 512MB and swapped the LCD display too, which was in great shape. I now practically have a new iMac!
That said, it's showing its age. It's stuck on El Capitan, Safari runs slow although 1080/60 RUclips videos plays smoothly. Chrome is a little slow if multiple tabs are open. Google maps in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari is a slideshow, although the Google Earth app and built-in Maps app works absolutely fine. CSGO used to play well a few years back but now it's a slideshow. Outside of those situations the computer works great. I will be using it for the next year or two but I do anticipate finally getting a new iMac.
7:40 that little movement of satisfaction 😉
EdgyShooter an advert came up when I pressed your time
I love how he got very happy @ 7:40 when the sound came back
I just realized when he talks he always gives that smirk when he smile
I like seeing restoration of old Apple products. This video is great....
"Does More. Costs Less."
Well that aged like milk.
Now it's "Does less, Costs more"
what about the iPhone 11 and 16" MBP...
@@dragontechroyale4k447 pay 700 dollars for a phone with the same specs as a 300 dollar one. only difference between them being the software, the hardware design and the 400 dollar apple tax.
@@dragontechroyale4k447 and also i could build a pc better than than the 16 inch macbook pro and it would cost me less than 1k
I’m mixed on that one. I was looking a lot at pc and Mac prices for Black Friday, and a factory refurbished 2019 13” MacBook Pro with a 4 core i5, 8gb ram, 128gb ssd cost as much as a surface pro, thinkpad, or xps with the exact same specs. Can you get a slightly better gaming pc for that $1,100 price tag? Yes. But you can’t really travel with a gaming pc like you can with a laptop, or even an iMac.
not gonna lie these cleanup videos are Super satisfying to watch
To be honest if this Motherboard could take Core 2 Quadro, using one of them would be a good idea. These CPUs now are cheap as dirt and yet have much better performance over Core 2 Duo.
Awesome video! Still using my 2009 iMac.
"The original sticker covering the Apple logo is still stuck on." That's the most Asian thing I've ever heard in this video.
@jake vibe check
Heh, I do the same with my guitars' pickguard.
Weeb stfu
@@albanianbatmapper3300 lol piss off wanker
I kind of wished he used it more that’s what I really came here for
When I heard you saying 42 degrees I was like "That seems cold", cuz I thought that Australia like USA uses Fahrenheit. Well, I was wrong, you literally have the temperature I have.. ..on 20th day of June.
Only the US uses Fahrenheit, and even then, a lot of our science and industry types use the metric system. NASA is all-metric now, to the best of my knowledge. Computer core temperatures are almost always expressed in Celcius, even in the U.S.
All of the US scales (Fahrenheit, miles, etc.) are defined based on metric scales, and no longer based on the old definitions (although very, very close to the old values).
So the entire world is pretty much metric, only the U.S. has a facade of using an imperial scale (which is actually defined by metric units)
@@RamLaska liberia and myanmar* use imperial too
Australia went to fully metric measures in 1973, having switched to decimal currency in 1966. However imperial measurements are still used for marketing purposes with Tyres (like the rest of the world, Michelin TRX metric sizes never caught on). In the days of CRTs, they were all sold in centimetres, but since flatscreen technologies have reverted to being marketed in inches. Apparently the smaller numbers inches are expressed in are easier for consumers to remember, which was a reason given for the failure of Michelin TRX Tyres as well. A 16” tyre is easier to remember than a 390mm tyre
love your work...
i also live in australia, i have just picked up a 2010 iMac 21.5 and would like to pop a SSD into it.
we aren't as blessed here as the US for access to economical SSD's, so what do you suggest domestically ?
cheers
It looks modern by today's standards!
No wonder you falling in love with these imacs XD
Watching these old machines getting back to life is so satisfying 💙
I Have The Same Computer As That & I'm Commenting On It!
My 2008 version still in use with 6gig ram and 250gb ssd. only thong i had to do once was replace the backlight power supply (IIRC) as there was a a dull area.
Plastic still on a 10 year old computer sounds like my parents computers!!😂
I was literally thinking about one of your videos 30 seconds ago, then this came out. Can't wait to watch it!
You should do a collection tour.
I'm actually watching this video with this same exact iMac ! I've been using it since 2009, it still works great, even if it's not as fast as before (changed the RAM from 1GO to 8GO). Can't believe i bought it 1099€ and now it doesn't cost anything anymore, how sad is that
Wait... that’s my computer xD
found one for $50 dollars on craigslist, brought it home, set it up, reinstalled macOS (was used at a school and was locked up) and now I use it all the time.
A graphics school in my town just replaced most of these iMacs with new ones. I might try to get one of them😂
Apple really knows how to do timeless design. This computer still looks fairly modern and I wouldn’t mind having the smaller size iMac on my desk
I might be crazy but isnt “grounding” yourself to the very board you’re working on utterly useless?
No, it equalises the charge between you and the board preventing any sudden discharges, same way you ground yourself to the case when you build a pc.
Yes. Ground *means GROUND* aka "mains earth" here in the UK.
@@dylanhopkins3640 in case of a pc case (punny...) you would ground yourself to the psu, not just the case
If you touch a local ground and discharge any static you have, you can then safely touch the chassis and ground to it. No problem.
Honestly the chance of static discharge is the chance of being hit by a lightning bolt and run over by a car in an underground bunker.
Hi! I'm a new subscriber to your channel. I love your the passion about restoring apple products, but started wondering what do you do with all those restored computers?
"the Design has held up well" because it hasn't changed in10 years substantialy😂😂😂😂
A lot thinner and nearly impossible to get inside though.
🏳️🌈 Lillian Charles 🏳️⚧️ yes, sadly
i do really enjoy your resurrection vidos. i learn a lot about the inside of macs too. thanks
What was the CPU? (what core 2 Duo?)
Still going strong on my Mid-2007 iMac. Great video mate!
It’s my birthday today!!!
The best b day because you uploaded :)
zehshi happy birthday
Ima Notatroł • 6 Years Ago thanks :)
MarcoC978 thanks!
I have an iMac (early 2009). It used to be my main computer for a long time until I upgraded my pc in around 2015. I still have it in my closet to this day and open it once in a while
I have my 2008 iMac and. It still runs to this day.
Yep , same here , upgrading tomorrow but she has been an amazing journey . Have seen friends go through many computers that still don't hold up as well as the 2008 Imac .
Wow.. 2009 still rocking "iMac " loves your videos a lot.. wish i was in Australia!!!
6:02 Fan Spin!
How to see if the Apple Mac works...
These are some of the best looking (and functioning) computers Apple has ever produced. It's great seeing them getting a new lease on life with these restorations. I personally have a 2011 Core i5 21.5" that I love and hope to put a Core i9 in someday to keep it peppy.
9:26 now i see it, finally
This videos are very well edited,entertaining, and very informative all I would like to say is thank you for making videos
This is the computer my family still uses to this day
Is there a reason you used metho to clean off the thermal paste and not alcohol?
Would using liquid metal have helped lower the gpu and cpu temps?
So you're telling me a 10 year old mac is still very usable while a 10 year old PC is borderline useless now?
If you have a PC that cost 1999$ in 2009, then it will still be very usable.
Le Docteur mac works better for longer it seems. I still prefer pc tho
it is all about the ssd. If you put an ssd in any old computer + also give it a good clean with new thermal paste it will instantly become much more usable.
Opticon could not agree more
I have a late 2009 27" iMac and after two failed HDDs (one under warranty, the other not), I bought a 1TB SSD and had it installed. Love it and after 11 years it's still going strong. I reckon I will have it for the rest of my life. I'd like to change out the screen though because there are some faint vertical lines on it that you can see only on a dark screen. But they are so faint it doesn't bother me that much. I don't know why people say these only last a few years. They can last forever with only a few parts changed and mine is proof.
Person: How many computers do you want?
Psivewri: Yes
How do you clean the glass ? I have a 2008 & a 2010.
I still use the 2008 iMac 😅
can you play 1080p youtube vids ?
Laser Beam yes
Yep , same here , upgrading tomorrow but she has been an amazing journey . Have seen friends go through many computers that still don't hold up as well as the 2008 Imac .
Harry Hoban & The Brothers Kane Same here. Modern Cromebooks don’t stand a chance to my old 2008.
I can’t believe you took that sticker off of the Mac 😱 I would have never taken it off! 😂
Same
how does my late 2009 macbook score over 100 points higher in cinebench than this imac from the same year?😂
Better mobile processor probably since this was the base model, ergo the cheapest.
Axel Brito yeah but it is fairly easy to upgrade. My mother iMac was upgraded to a 3.0Ghz Core2Duo... it a normal lga775
Your content is therapeutic...
10:00 look the monitor!
I dont see anything
Lmao, love his sense of humor at the end. 😂
is it me or can u hear him licking his mouth after every sentence
Its crazy how old apple tech still looks modern.
Ah. A calming restoration video to start my day.
Nice video! I am still using the same machine for basic work. I wrote my phd thesis on this mac, but also played half-life 2 for example. And way too much minecraft... All in all a good investment. 😁
So satisfying watching this video.
i love seeing the insides of macs and pcs! thanks for making this awesome content
Finally a tech RUclipsr with a sence of humour
These iMacs bring me back such good memories.
Love these iMac restore videos!
Your Videos are so elegant. Greetings from México
Wow you just called out every single youtuber that just point with arrows and circles in their thumbs.
I like that
I just came over from Austin's video featuring you, and find it kinda hilarious that I'm watching a video about a 2009 iMac whilst using a 2009 iMac (21.5", 3.06GHz C2D, 16GB DDR3, GeForce 9400, 500GB HDD) that I got nearly a year ago refurbished off eBay for like $130 AUD.
I just bought a 2009 iMac as well a couple of days ago and on the display you can see white faint lines on the screen, I also saw it on your display as well. Is this a Graphics card failure or just need to install a new display?
Nice video well done - nice to see an Aussie doing these.
I do like the look of iMac PCs.
HI mate, I just watched this video today and noticed that just like the day you filmed this, today was again42 degrees in Adelaide as i was watching this too. Hope you stayed cool today...I spent the whole day in the air conditioning. All the best. Steve from Adelaide.