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Originally Posted by crockett
I will agree, if you are looking for a nice door stop, the iMac is quite handy. I was looking for the best way to get the most out of the $2k I spent on my iMac, that died just out of warranty a year later.
For a long time I left it on my desk next to my PC monitors. I did this so I could see my reflection in the 27 inch screen, and call my self a dick head if I ever though of buying another Apple product. This was quite successful and served it's purpose when I was tempted to buy a new iPhone a few month ago.
I figured now that I had learned my lesson, I could finally move on to a better use for my 27 inch iMac. Sadly I don't have a boat nor a lake to sail it in, so boat anchors are out. I do however, have this pesky door in my office that always wants to close it's self.
With great skill & a healthy DIY attitude, I managed to remove the stand from my 27 inch iMac and create a fully functional iDoorstop. I'm now quite certain that I have managed to get my money's worth from my iMac.
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That's unfortunate and rare. I have owned no less than 20 macs and have only needed to replace a hard drive on 1 once and back in the days when Ma clones were out for a year, I bought one and it broke too but under warranty. In my office at NETbilling, I have an original imac on the floor that still runs well but far too slow to use obviously, a G4 mac 400 (also runs perfectly but too slow, a Mac pro G5 (runs perfectly still also) and a newer mac mini that is pushing a 32 inch cinema display and and 22 inch monitor both and did it right out of the box with an adapter I bought.
Apple products run exceptionally well and the OS is fast and stable. There is something to be said for designing the OS and the hardware to run together instead of the clusterfuck that PCs running windows seem to be so often.
BTW - at NETbilling we replace PCs in our call center every couple of years as they just start to blow up, burn up power supplies, drives die etc.
We never have to do that with the Macs.
Mitch
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