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Hey guys. As you have heard, I recently bought a G4 mac mini from friends skunkie and polyvector. how awesome they are to have charged such a wonderful price for a great machine. I bought it used from them for $235.00. Being generous, since the two are so awesome and totally deserve it, I even tipped them 5 bucks making the total $240.00. The reason I got it for the low price is because the cd drive does not work anymore. That's ok becasuse I don't even really use cd's or dvd's because of the external (got it when i moved to my girlfriend's house.) It even has bluetooth and airport which are VERY useful for internet and offloading pictures from my cell phone. Oh the wonderful things you can get with money. I currently have the mac mini hooked up to the tv along with our wii, and my modded playstation. The slim ps2 would not fit in our entertainment center along with the charge station (for wii) and my ipod which sits next to the mini. The reason I have it hooked up to the tv is because I had to leave my 15" flat panel back home but I am looking forward to having my parents mail it to the girlfriend's house. Here are some pictures of the setup. Enjoy!

Why do people hate mac? Why do people hate PC? You know, PC doesn't only run just windows, it runs over 100 different Linux distributions also. And, PC CAN RUN MAC! Mac can run PC too, so why do people think "mac sucks" and "windows sucks?" I personally think "the people that say that suck." Honestly, I believe that the people who think the operating system sucks, frankly have never even spent 30 minutes using it. Mac has it's advantages. The most powerful pc is a mac. What I mean is, the most powerful computer that runs windows, is indeed, a mac. So why think mac sucks if that is true? So what if you have neon lights on your case, it's going to be under the desk where you cant see it anyway. if you're going to mod, mod your monitor. something that you'll be looking at, not something that will be tucked away under the desk in your den. Even games can be played on the mac now, Macs run Intel processors and can have windows installed natively. All versions of Mac OS X leopard are 129 dollars, compared to vista's "ultimate" version which all it is is a 400 dollar expense of "ultimate bloat-ware." Mac and PC both have their advantages. Mac and PC both have their downsides too. So why persecute which one is better? There clearly is no better. One will always do one small thing better than the other.

John

Ok, this is old news to me and I've finally got it all sorted out. You see, one of the problems with the iMac G3 Slot loading kind is the PAV board (power analog video board) is a daughter card on the logic board. The purpose of the PAV board is to put power and display to the CRT screen. The problem with it is, it dies in a few G3 imacs...Well, maybe more than just a few. What is displayed on my iMac's screen is normal, then for a few seconds it will turn a little yellow, and flicker from normal to a dim yellow shade. I guess I am the lucky one because most people with this problem get NO SCREEN at all. When this happens, you can plug in a external display and still be fine, but your screen inside the iMac just dies. What I have resolved with the helpful friendly people at Midwest Tech Recyclers on eBay is I am going to take out my upgrades (I bought some ram and put it in to have it at 512MB) Just send back the unit (cause they let me keep the keyboard, mouse, and power) and when they get it, they are sending me a new one. Sure I'll lose my stuff on the hard drive but who cares, it's all backed up on the external anyway. I just really have to make sure I get the memory out and the original ram (320 MB) Back in. I really do not recommend 320 MB of ram for Tiger on a iMac G3. What the problem is, is that it will eat it all soon, even if you are just listening to iTunes, running Mail, and using Safari/Firefox. Chances are you will have 4MB of ram free! With 512 MB of ram, you'll at least get a couple hundred MB free of ram. Apple says that 512 MB is the maximum ram for this iMac, but you can really fit up to 1GB of ram if I read correctly on http://www.macspeedzone.com/html/hubs/specs/imac/feb-01.shtml
It's the DV G3 400 in indigo and ruby, which is the one I have. I'm shipping my iMac back tomorrow and when they receive it, they will ship a new one. Awesome!!

Just thought I would take a screenshot of the laptop since I haven't shown off it's desktop in a while. I'm also working on my own custom icons with my tablet in GIMP! There are some shown in the screen. I also made a drippy paint dock indicator. it looks awesome.

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http://files.myopera.com/superlegoman/albums/324751/hand%20drawn%20laptop%20desktop.jpg

Some first screens of my new imac. How Awesome!This first one is a earlier one And this second one is my current one. The adium scribble over the chat bubble disappears when Adium is running and when you get a message, it draws a little ! sign inside of the bubble. How neat. The dock items are in order from left to right: Finder, Thunderbird, Firefox, Adium, iTunes, System Preferences, and Trash. The menubar items are Display, and Ram and CPU (iStat menus.) Additional shots will be added to the album.