In early 2000, I bought my mum an iMac DV 400Mhz. About four months ago, I upped it from 128 to 512MB and installed 10.2. For whatever reasons, it refused to run 10.3, but it purred along for a couple months running 10.2...until the hard drive died.
I was able to shoehorn in an 80GB drive (I did have fun trying to find a good 5400RPM model), and once again installed 10.2.
I wouldn't want to run Final Cut Pro on it, but for email/web surfing and word processing, it's fine.
I believe the DV cost $1200 in the spring of 2000, that's ~$270 per year of use. It was $100 for the RAM and $75 for the HDD.
The DV models are still viable low-impact desktops. Having the firewire is a Godsend, being able to boot off an external LaCie made the second resurrection much less of a headache.
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In early 2000, I bought my mum an iMac DV 400Mhz. About four months ago, I upped it from 128 to 512MB and installed 10.2. For whatever reasons, it refused to run 10.3, but it purred along for a couple months running 10.2 ...until the hard drive died.
I was able to shoehorn in an 80GB drive (I did have fun trying to find a good 5400RPM model), and once again installed 10.2.
I wouldn't want to run Final Cut Pro on it, but for email/web surfing and word processing, it's fine.
I believe the DV cost $1200 in the spring of 2000, that's ~$270 per year of use. It was $100 for the RAM and $75 for the HDD.
The DV models are still viable low-impact desktops. Having the firewire is a Godsend, being able to boot off an external LaCie made the second resurrection much less of a headache.