Hey, Well I'm New
I found this forum and couldn't resist to join.
My first question is I have a Rev B iMac most of it's guts are all right except the cd drive,front casing (Power Button Jammed and the spring broke).It worked fine until a relative played with it and deleted the extensions, and the thing of that is I don't have the orig. mac os 8.5 disks for the machine just the mac os 9.2 disk that I bought brand new. I thought I could restore the computer by starting up on the 9.2 disk but the firmware will not update.
Is is worth it to restore this classic or go and buy a DV Se Mac?
New Some Questions
July 15, 2007 - 1:14pm
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New Some Questions
I forgot to ask In a Rev B Mac what is the maxiumum memory, the reason for asking is that I would like to install os x 10.1
An original iMac G3 (first release) can only go up to 256 MB RAM. Some later versions of iMac's can hold up to 1 GB. I'm not sure if I'm right. I got this information from this site: http://www.apple-history.com/
You can see what iMac you have and determine the maximum RAM.
The tray-loading models can support 512MB RAM. However, achieving this requires using two (at this point) rather hard-to-find double-sided 16-chip 256MB DIMMs. Single-sided 256MB SO-DIMMs will only be seen at half capacity. (Or not be recognized at all.)
I strongly recommend you don't spend any money on upgrading a Rev. B iMac, or to a lesser extent any CRT iMac. It's not a question of *if* the built-in monitor will eventually fail, it's *when*.
--Peace