I have three of them on my farm, bought for $25 each, and after replacing them with SSD and installing Ubuntu, they work great. It has an excellent screen and good speakers and I need them to run one application that connects to the home server and I do everything on the server and these are just computers-terminals. The original keyboard is very nice and can be used even with work gloves, but the original mouse is a nightmare.
I have a 17” early 2006 model that I have upgraded to a core 2 duo and flashed it to be the 5,1. I have it running Lion currently. They make pretty nice windows XP machines with Bootcamp as well. The fans are max speed because the hard drive was likely replaced, and they didn’t put the temp sensor back on the new drive.
@@cynonexus it’s very easy to bend the brackets that hold the bezel on as you have to put a fair amount of force on them to unclip them. They are in the vents in the back.
If you have a working disc drive in these iMacs, putting Snow Leopard on it and using Front Row as a DVD player with the white/aluminum Apple Remote is the way to go!
@@cynonexus Absolutely! Oh, and also, It would be very interesting if you could make a video about a 12 inch MacBook. Writing the comment from it right now and it seems like a really nice !actually! portable laptop.
I own both a "glossy white" 20-inch G5 iMac and a "glossy white" 24-inch Intel iMac system. Keep the G5 iMac on OS X 10.4 Tiger and, the Intel iMac on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard both desktops have MS Office, Apple Works, iLife '09, iWorks '09, and support watching and recording digital TV channels over the air using my Elgato EyeTV 500 system. And yes, your statement was correct Snow Leopard was the best ever Apple computer operating system (prior to trying to make the operating system look like an iPhone OS or iPad OS (smile ... smile).
upgrade the ram, SSD, then use the opencore installer to hack in a newer version of MacOS. i got an 8,1 iMac (2008) and its running Mojave and FIrefox ESR as the browser, and it is fine for productivity, web browser, slicing prints, running my laser engraver, email etc.
@@weelebaseknowles4410you can upgrade the 32-bit Core Duo models to a 64-bit Core 2 Duo and then flash it to properly support the 64-bit CPU and the max 3-4gb of ram. Although you cannot update the efi from 32-bit to 64-bit.
My whole music library, over 300gb of music is into one of those running snow leopard, why, Front Row …timeless
Nostalgic for sure
I have three of them on my farm, bought for $25 each, and after replacing them with SSD and installing Ubuntu, they work great. It has an excellent screen and good speakers and I need them to run one application that connects to the home server and I do everything on the server and these are just computers-terminals. The original keyboard is very nice and can be used even with work gloves, but the original mouse is a nightmare.
Maybe this is the perfect computer to try ubuntu and see how it goes
I have a 17” early 2006 model that I have upgraded to a core 2 duo and flashed it to be the 5,1. I have it running Lion currently. They make pretty nice windows XP machines with Bootcamp as well. The fans are max speed because the hard drive was likely replaced, and they didn’t put the temp sensor back on the new drive.
I did not think of that, to add the fact the bezels were lose too, definitely has been replaced! Great thinking!
@@cynonexus it’s very easy to bend the brackets that hold the bezel on as you have to put a fair amount of force on them to unclip them. They are in the vents in the back.
If you have a working disc drive in these iMacs, putting Snow Leopard on it and using Front Row as a DVD player with the white/aluminum Apple Remote is the way to go!
Still have it, planning on using it as a photo album display haha
This machine needs a linux! And congrats with the first sponsor!
@@mexdy3915 hahaha you noticed! Thank you! Very picky sponsors and flexispot has been great so far!
@@cynonexus Absolutely! Oh, and also, It would be very interesting if you could make a video about a 12 inch MacBook. Writing the comment from it right now and it seems like a really nice !actually! portable laptop.
@@mexdy3915 I saw one on Craigslist and wanted to pick it up! Don’t worry it’s on the list haha they’re just overpriced for what they are imo
@@cynonexus yeah you absolutely right about their price. Cant wait to see it in future on your channel:)
Need Linux are stupid Moran 😡😡😡😡
I have the g5 iMac (without iSight camera). it's pretty fun, however slower than my iMac g4 and emac with g4...
G5s are your personal heater
@@cynonexus absolutely !! 😂 g5 runs hot and has horrible performance.
I have always, loved my 20-inch G5 iMac. However, in 2014, I use it only as a stand alone device (smile ... smile).
I have that same model, unfortunately mine was damaged in shipping, it also needs a recap as it freezes after a while using it.
I own both a "glossy white" 20-inch G5 iMac and a "glossy white" 24-inch Intel iMac system. Keep the G5 iMac on OS X 10.4 Tiger and, the Intel iMac on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard both desktops have MS Office, Apple Works, iLife '09, iWorks '09, and support watching and recording digital TV channels over the air using my Elgato EyeTV 500 system. And yes, your statement was correct Snow Leopard was the best ever Apple computer operating system (prior to trying to make the operating system look like an iPhone OS or iPad OS (smile ... smile).
Awesome mac video!😁
Thanks! 😁 glad you like it!
thank you sir!!!
Glad you enjoyed!
upgrade the ram, SSD, then use the opencore installer to hack in a newer version of MacOS. i got an 8,1 iMac (2008) and its running Mojave and FIrefox ESR as the browser, and it is fine for productivity, web browser, slicing prints, running my laser engraver, email etc.
Unfortunately this is limited by its efi but the 2007 models can run oclp
@@cynonexus apparently the 07's can be upgraded if you upgrade the CPU
@@DaiAtlus79the absolute newest you can get running on it is El Capitan, and that’s with major hacks and without any hardware acceleration.
Might make a decent Monitor with an aliexpress kit
Maybe but I do think you’d be better off getting a much never 2012-2013 iMacs for $80-100 more
Can’t u uparge them to 64bit
One way to find out lol but no because it’s on the logic board
@@cynonexus that strange
@@weelebaseknowles4410you can upgrade the 32-bit Core Duo models to a 64-bit Core 2 Duo and then flash it to properly support the 64-bit CPU and the max 3-4gb of ram. Although you cannot update the efi from 32-bit to 64-bit.
Uhhh yeah. They may have listed it at $100, but it's definitely not worth that. $50 maybe.
$20 is even not worth it
So nice to see a welcome message partly in Russian - Добро пожаловать ))))
Wish Apple would do setup intros again!