Visited my parents last week in Western VA; they are iPad users now and asked that I remove their old iMac 8,1; (core 2 duo and 1Gb RAM) Not much of an OSX fan, and this version was substantially out of date. This is a 2008-9 vintage. It still had the AOL fat client on it. lol!
Brought it back to CT, refreshed it with $55 of memory bringing it to 4Gb; loaded up Linux Mint 18.1 MATE and now have a snappy machine with working sound, camera, wireless and bluetooth; it is completely usuable machine.
Not going to recommend dumpster diving @ the recycling center, but if there are freebies on CL, certainly worth a look. 4Gb of memory in 2008-9 isn't anything most people would have purchased, so just refreshing it can certainly extend the life of the machine for 5 years or so.
-T
Brought it back to CT, refreshed it with $55 of memory bringing it to 4Gb; loaded up Linux Mint 18.1 MATE and now have a snappy machine with working sound, camera, wireless and bluetooth; it is completely usuable machine.
Not going to recommend dumpster diving @ the recycling center, but if there are freebies on CL, certainly worth a look. 4Gb of memory in 2008-9 isn't anything most people would have purchased, so just refreshing it can certainly extend the life of the machine for 5 years or so.
-T
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