Yesterday, I stopped by the Apple store at South Park mall, Charlotte and picked up the mid-range 24 inch iMac. This will be my first iMac and to honor such an event, I took some unboxing pictures.
What’s kind of interesting is that this is actually my second all-in-one Mac. My first one was the Power Mac 5500 running on the IBM PowerPC 603ev processor clocked at 225MHz with 64MB RAM and a 2GB hard disk. I later upgraded the machine to a PowerPC G3 processor and 128MB RAM. The system shipped with Mac OS 7.5.5 which I upgraded all the way to Mac OS 9. When Mac OS X shipped, I was unable to upgrade the machine to that OS due to he hardware limitations of the 5500 and it was for this reason that I ended up buying a Windows machine as I could simply not afford to buy another Mac (and Windows 2000 was looking quite promising).
For comparison sake, the iMac is running on an Intel Core 2 Duo processor clocked at 2.93GHz with 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 RAM and a 640GB hard disk. The machine is configured to boot Mac OS X 10.5.6 and Windows 7 Beta. How the times have changed…
Hi Steve,
LOL @ the first iMac. When were you using that? If I remember correctly I was using an Acorn A3000, or it might have been a BBC “B” at the time you had that
By: Mike Wilson on March 30, 2009
at 1:35 pm
How, what for a progress ;o)
Just a question, I bought this morning into broker’s shop an old 5500 set with 0S9 and wanted to switch back to the original system 7. Is there any way to get a copy / image of the original CD if you had it ? Best regards from France.
By: RUSTERHOLTZ on January 15, 2010
at 5:59 pm
i have a set of system 7 disks and system 8 cd and a system 9 cd
By: michael on March 2, 2010
at 9:39 am