[BegeMoT]

Gotta say, I picked up a broken one from work. It was going to be tossed out, and well I'll probably toss it out as well. The logic board on it failed and well, its about $250 for a used one, $500 for a new one, and there are several untested logic boards that will work for $80 to $100. Not really worth the cost of repair, I may sell the imac as a parts machine. The logic board failed in that it looks like either the ram or some portion of the video as the display is scrambled. I thought about attempting to reflow the logic board using the oven method, but didn't feel like getting into it now. Its a 1.8ghz G5, 1gb ram, 160gb HD.

But while I was working on the machine, I have to say I do like its build. Its slim, takes up basically zero space. And for what i would do every day with it, it would work. The CPU is powerful enough to do video compression, even though the video is subpar for gaming, but I don't game that much on PC anymore in the first place. Sure, I have a decent monitor, but it kind of pales to playing on a 52" display with a real home theater system. That and the couch is way more comfortable.

Money wise, I know its not effective. The home machine I built for about $300 blows it out of the water.

But there is something to be said for having such a small machine. The imacs take up as much room as my LCD does.

I wish I could build something like this. If someone made a case that would take a micro PC mobo or something like that I almost think it would be worth it. But the case wouldn't be cheap.