Craigslist find of the day

[DavidS]

I just picked up a 2008 24" iMac, 2.8Ghz C2D for $200. On Mac2Sell.net, it lists it as worth $450.

The seller listed it as a Craigslist Auction - he asked for bids via email and said he'd pick the highest above $100. This is for my daughter, since I killed her 17" iMac C2D while trying to replace the LCD due to the vertical lines. http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1861479

[jdc]

Nice machine and not too hard to get into. Drop a SSD into it and should lay even longer.

Picked up the 20" version of that same model for $200 about 8 months ago -- runs zippy with 10.6.8 and 3 GB of ram.

[Speedy]

Nice find for a solid machine. Your daughter will love the extra screen real estate. And I second jdc's suggestion of an SSD.

[DavidS]

Speedy wrote:
Nice find for a solid machine. Your daughter will love the extra screen real estate. And I second jdc's suggestion of an SSD.

The only problem with the larger screen is that my son has a 2009 20" iMac and will be jealous that his little sister has a larger computer. I'll have to appease him that 1) his graphics card is faster and 2) the larger screen will not fit on his desk hutch.

[jdc]

Get him the SSD first. =)

My oldest has the 2007 24" model, and the younger one has a 2006 white 20" -- we tell the younger one its cuter.

[Buzz]

jdc wrote:
Get him the SSD first. =)

My oldest has the 2007 24" model, and the younger one has a 2006 white 20" -- we tell the younger one its cuter.

The 20" 2007 was a road apple... the late 2006 20"/24" iMacs were pretty darn good machines; woulda been better if they could use more RAM. The 24" 2007/'08's are very nice machines. Lucky kids.
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[jdc]

Id say all the 20" AL iMacs were road apples cause of the screen. They sucked something bad. Horrible crap screen.