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I am not a computer person. However, I am a junk person, and I knows good junk when I sees it. Two days ago I spied three Apple puters in the electronics recycling bin, and decided to drag them home. Apple puters are a rare sight in this neck 'o the woods. One is a A1186 and two are A1224's. Both "all in ones" boot up and I was able to connect and browse the web (bought a cheap keyboard and mouse),but they both want the os restored, so I'm guessing they were wiped before dumping. The 1186 powers up, but I will need to get a monitor and cables to go further w/that. There is a 500 gig hard drive that has "new 2/25/15" written on it. On one of the removable PCB there is a pair of two gig memory (?) banks. On the other is a pair of 4gig banks. The vid card is an Nvidia p345.
I have never liked MS but that's what I've always used. I tried an open source OS once, but couldn't make it work. I use an ipad for most of my web time now.
My question is, do I keep them and play with them for kicks, or would they just be black holes sucking time and money ? I would have to buy an OS if I wanted to use them I guess. Should I try to find them a new home ? I'm really kind of far out (two hrs south of Pittsburgh, where the nearest Apple Store is). Or maybe just sell the removable bits and move on. Thinking out loud and kicking it around....
Best,
I have never liked MS but that's what I've always used. I tried an open source OS once, but couldn't make it work. I use an ipad for most of my web time now.
My question is, do I keep them and play with them for kicks, or would they just be black holes sucking time and money ? I would have to buy an OS if I wanted to use them I guess. Should I try to find them a new home ? I'm really kind of far out (two hrs south of Pittsburgh, where the nearest Apple Store is). Or maybe just sell the removable bits and move on. Thinking out loud and kicking it around....
Best,