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What To Do With Lampshade iMac...
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Goodyear, AZ
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The iMac G4 I gifted to my in-laws when I upgraded to my G5 has returned to my home. The in-laws have returned to the Windows world.
That's fine. I detest being the family tech support anyway. Your Dell laptop works for you? Great for both of us. Seriously!
That being said, anyone have any ideas for what to do with an iMac G4? I thought of putting it in the living room as a media appliance. But a G4 won't run Front Row. That's now less cool.
Other than saving it to use as baby's first computer (my son is now 3), anyone have any neat and practical ideas? It's still a pristine machine. It has 1 GB of RAM, no dead pixels and is cosmetically flawless, but with a G5 iMac on my desk and a Core2Duo MacBook in the room, too, it's a little redundant.
Ideas?
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Put it in the kitchen. The swiveling head makes it ideal for any cook who wants to move around the kitchen while reading recipes on the net.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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But a G4 won't run Front Row. That's now less cool.
Oh but it will......
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Follow the instructions EXACTLY, and prepare to be amazed.
The perfect solution and IMHO a very appropriate deployment for such a sound bit of kit.
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Aron Peterson 
Put it in the kitchen. The swiveling head makes it ideal for any cook who wants to move around the kitchen while reading recipes on the net.
This is the exact reason why I want one.
But they're still too expensive to justify the cost. 
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Join Date: May 2000
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Originally Posted by cmd
Oh but it will...
Very cool. I now have Front Row running on the lampshade and on my G5 iMac. On the G5, the experience is just like it is on my MacBook. On the G4 it's crazy slow & choppy... Even with nothing else running, 1 GB of RAM and a fresh OS X install. Still cool though. Thanks for the tip!
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by DigitalEl
Very cool. I now have Front Row running on the lampshade and on my G5 iMac. On the G5, the experience is just like it is on my MacBook. On the G4 it's crazy slow & choppy... Even with nothing else running, 1 GB of RAM and a fresh OS X install. Still cool though. Thanks for the tip!
It runs fine on my 533 MHz G4.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Vancouver B.C.
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Turn it into Music center console, e-mail/web terminal for general use.
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