Th...ese older Macs still have a lot of life left in them, if you know how to pick the right ones. Most of them will come with tiger or an older version of OSX installed. However, you can update any G4 with about 512mb of ram and 800ghz processor to 10.5 (Leopard). These "lamp shade" Macs make great low cost entry level macs for anyone who needs a computer that can go on the internet and do basic word processing work. This is definitely not the newest or fastest Mac, but is great for use by young students, children, or for basic web browsing. It has a 15-inch LCD which is mounted on an adjustable arm above a hemisphere containing a full-sized, tray-loading, optical drive and a sixteenth-generation CPU (the PPC 74xx-series). When running newer versions of Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard), the iMac G4's GeForce4 MX GPU is not capable of Core Image rendering. This causes some minor graphical issues. One such issue would be the lack of the Dashboard (Mac OS) ripple effect when a widget is introduced. Another would be an opaque menu bar in Mac OS X Leopard.
It's important... to understand that this is an old computer using a processor architecture that isn't supported anymore. But if you like vintage computing, you really can't beat this. It's completely unlike anything else out there, it was amazingly well thought out and very powerful for its day, and in my humble opinion it is the most beautiful desktop computer ever built. Well worth the money.
It’s a great little computer. I’m excited to have it.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This computer is a beast for being built in 2002. It surfs the web a...nd runs almost flawlessly. The only draw backs are the outdated OSX and there not being any backup CDs (to change pervious passwords).
It was just as I expected and wanted this machine for an art piece o...r swap out all the internals with new parts because the design of this iMac is simply beautiful!