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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 1396990" data-attributes="member: 4720">1) This is my work computer.  I'm not willing to sink my personal money into it.2) As far as our resident Mac experts have told me, there's no worthwhile way to upgrade the iMac beyond RAM, which I've done.  Twice.Nope.  My girlfriend's 6 year old Dell handles the world just fine.  This, however, is not the result of any superiority in PCs, but the result of the world being invested in IE on PCs.The beige G3s are more upgradable than iMacs.  Not as upgradable as the modern Mac boxes, which are actually quite nice that way.  I was bowled over the first time I opened a blue G3 case and saw that they had made working on your machine user-friendly.  Something Mac was not previously known for.Eh.  When I've browsed on OS 10 machines, I've not noticed any significant difference from PCs.  Outside of the sites, like most PC and console gaming sites, which only work properly on PCs.  But again, that's probably a design issue.Original outlay: $530  I did swap in my current drives and network card at that time, so that's for the case/power supply, motherboard, DDR RAM, and processor.  I have since installed a new hard drive.  New CD/RW.  One processor upgrade.  New heat sink.  Doubled the RAM.  I also updated to Win 2000, in order to address all that RAM properly.  Though that wasn't included in the $1000, because it didn't cost me anything.  Everything but the CD/RW is a quality component I picked up when it went on sale.  The CD/RW is pretty clunky, but it gets the job done and cost me $30.  The only thing it needs is a new graphics card.  So I'll probably exceed my projected costs this year, since I'm eyeing the Radeon 9600 XT, which will run me $250 by itself.Oh, and your iPaq experience is typical.  Compaq made the worst machines on the market.  You can get better performance out of a stripped down eMachine than out of the best Compaq ever built.  :shudders:At any rate, I appreciate the advice, guys, but I've seen OS 10 running on these first generation iMacs, and I don't want it.  Eventually I'll replace my box at home, and I'll be able to bring the old one to the lab and toss the iMac.  Or maybe I can attach some funds for new computers to our next grant proposal.</blockquote>

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