Apple iMac Indigo 15 in. (M7669LL/A) Mac Desktop
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- Form Factor: All-in-one
- Operating System: Apple MacOS 9.1
- HDD Size: 20 GB
- Installed Memory: 64 MB (SDRAM)
- Display: 15 in.
- Processor: PowerPC G3 500 MHz
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Lime Green, of course
Pros
The Lime Green is AWESOME in my dining room! (kidding!) It's a Mac. It's easy. It builds confidence.
Cons
Freezes more than my back deck. Incompatible with most peripheral "non-essentials" like HP printers and Olympus digital cameras.
Recommended it?
Yes
I have an iMac. I call it the Lime Beast. Mostly I like it, but I know that is because I perceive myself to be too stupid to use anything but a Mac.
I have been putting this epinion off for as long as the site has been operational. However, since I can find nothing else already linked tonight, and am tired of submitting "suggest a product to epinions" forms - here goes. (please don't burn me at the high tech stake for my glaring and obvious lack of technical knowledge. I worship at the lotus feet of all of you other reviewers who live/eat/breathe electronics and computers.)
I resisted all things computer-related until my last job in Calif. required me to use one. We had a Mac network. Lo and behold, I grew to love computers, due to the self-confidence I gained in my growing proficiency with Macs. Most of us were on PowerBooks. So when I moved to Colorado and realized I had to either get email or continue to write arm-numbing letters to friends in Calif, of course I got another PowerBook.
Time passed, it served its purpose. And then, suddenly last Spring, my back went out for two weeks and I discovered eBay and the internet BIG TIME. It soon became clear that my puny, slow, constantly crashing laptop was not keeping up. The iMacs had recently enjoyed their deb-ball-coming-out-soiree, so I ordered me up one!
Yes - it is faster. Yes - it has more memory (I knew enough to tell them to give me a full 64 MB before even shipping it). Yes, it is very green. And, contrary to other epinions I have read, the funky keyboard and mouse don't bother me at all (it is really nice to use a mouse again after the very "interesting" track pad and roller ball gizmos on the PowerBooks I previously used).
The downsides? It still crashes a lot...actually, I think the correct term is FREEZES. Comes a moment, more in some weeks than others, when for no obvious reason the entire screen locks up, and no alchemical blend of magical keyboard combinations can loose it. It throws up the most interesting and random sets of error codes to me, and if I have forgotten to shut "her" up, a very annoying woman who apparently lives in my computer pipes up to tell me what she thinks the problem is. The dog barks - I think there is an intruder in the house-it is unnerving.
At that point, there is only one thing to do: the time-honored paper-clip-in- the-side Re-start Ritual. It took me a few weeks to even find that teeny little port/hole on the side. I thought the iMac might not even have a re-start hole. I had taken to just pulling the power to clear it.
In addition, and most frustrating of all, is the fact that I bought an Olympus, "Mac Compatible" digital camera last Spring on eBay to use with the Beast, and Olympus is still not able to ship the part that I seem to need to their vendors. That is another epinion, but if anyone out there has found a digital camera compatible with the iMac, please email me! As it was, I had to get a Keyspan USB thingey mabob to interface my HP Deskwriter 680C with the Beast.
I don't know. It's not like I have a ton of options. Mac is so user- friendly for the technologically impaired and easily intimidated. I concede all technical brain power to all who go before me in epining on this Beast. I can only contribute one computer challenged woman's voice.
I have been putting this epinion off for as long as the site has been operational. However, since I can find nothing else already linked tonight, and am tired of submitting "suggest a product to epinions" forms - here goes. (please don't burn me at the high tech stake for my glaring and obvious lack of technical knowledge. I worship at the lotus feet of all of you other reviewers who live/eat/breathe electronics and computers.)
I resisted all things computer-related until my last job in Calif. required me to use one. We had a Mac network. Lo and behold, I grew to love computers, due to the self-confidence I gained in my growing proficiency with Macs. Most of us were on PowerBooks. So when I moved to Colorado and realized I had to either get email or continue to write arm-numbing letters to friends in Calif, of course I got another PowerBook.
Time passed, it served its purpose. And then, suddenly last Spring, my back went out for two weeks and I discovered eBay and the internet BIG TIME. It soon became clear that my puny, slow, constantly crashing laptop was not keeping up. The iMacs had recently enjoyed their deb-ball-coming-out-soiree, so I ordered me up one!
Yes - it is faster. Yes - it has more memory (I knew enough to tell them to give me a full 64 MB before even shipping it). Yes, it is very green. And, contrary to other epinions I have read, the funky keyboard and mouse don't bother me at all (it is really nice to use a mouse again after the very "interesting" track pad and roller ball gizmos on the PowerBooks I previously used).
The downsides? It still crashes a lot...actually, I think the correct term is FREEZES. Comes a moment, more in some weeks than others, when for no obvious reason the entire screen locks up, and no alchemical blend of magical keyboard combinations can loose it. It throws up the most interesting and random sets of error codes to me, and if I have forgotten to shut "her" up, a very annoying woman who apparently lives in my computer pipes up to tell me what she thinks the problem is. The dog barks - I think there is an intruder in the house-it is unnerving.
At that point, there is only one thing to do: the time-honored paper-clip-in- the-side Re-start Ritual. It took me a few weeks to even find that teeny little port/hole on the side. I thought the iMac might not even have a re-start hole. I had taken to just pulling the power to clear it.
In addition, and most frustrating of all, is the fact that I bought an Olympus, "Mac Compatible" digital camera last Spring on eBay to use with the Beast, and Olympus is still not able to ship the part that I seem to need to their vendors. That is another epinion, but if anyone out there has found a digital camera compatible with the iMac, please email me! As it was, I had to get a Keyspan USB thingey mabob to interface my HP Deskwriter 680C with the Beast.
I don't know. It's not like I have a ton of options. Mac is so user- friendly for the technologically impaired and easily intimidated. I concede all technical brain power to all who go before me in epining on this Beast. I can only contribute one computer challenged woman's voice.
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