iMac question....

[SVPirate]

beller wrote:
A 600 MHZ iMac will be dog slow for most applications.

That depends what you run on it, and what versions. OS X up to 10.4 are all fine on a G3 of that speed, but non are earth shatteringly fast (10.4 is slightly faster than 10.3 in my experience but uses more RAM)Stuff like iTunes, Mail, Safari, and IM apps will run OK. Anything heavier will struggle though. You may get better productivity from it by using OS 9-era apps and running them through the 'classic' system in OS X, or trying to find very early (2001-03) era OS X native apps.

If you like OS X but find the machine slow then you can pick up a decent G4 Powermac for less than a lot these days

[SVPirate]

Oh, another word of sagely advice for G3 iMacs is get a nice low-noise fan and fit it under the 'handle' on the top to pull the hot air out from the unit, they are known to over heat in some circumstances, which in turn seems to damamge the analogue board (the high voltage PSU/CRT driver) and causes the machine to fail.