Thanks for watching! Note: When I say this was the "cheapest iMac" Apple sold I'm not counting the slightly lower spec variant only sold to the educational market. If you wanted to buy a new iMac straight from Apple's website back in 2009, this was your cheapest option :)

@IntelAU

2 жыл бұрын

I love the old iMacs! Love the content, always a fan!

@The_JohnF

2 жыл бұрын

Would that be the emac?

@yxles

2 жыл бұрын

@@The_JohnF yup its the eMac but it doesnt make sense to consider it here since you can't just buy it straight out of Apple's Website

@psivewri

2 жыл бұрын

@@The_JohnF pretty sure the emac was discontinued years earlier.

@giorgio5789

2 жыл бұрын

why not upgrading the cpu as well? to one with more cache memory

You know it's Australian when Spider uses Macs for their web development

@itz_puppy8701

Жыл бұрын

LOL

@oreodualshock5005

Жыл бұрын

This is wordpress

@vijaynandyapgol6593

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

@0w3nn

6 ай бұрын

Nice puns

@NBOceanliners-ships

5 ай бұрын

😂😂

Two things that never get old 1)Eucalyptus oil 2) old-school runescape

@derblaubaer

9 ай бұрын

haha fr😂

I do remember this video haha, lovely blast of the past. I had a 2008 model which included a 3.06GHZ Core 2 Duo, Nvidia 512MB GPU and I believe 4GB of ram :)

@cheeseman498

2 жыл бұрын

i have the early 2008 model with a 2.66 ghz core 2 duo, 500gb hard drive, 4gb of 800mhz ddr2 which was awfully slow, abd a defective ati radeon 2600 pro which would show artifacts all over the top of the acreen

@dangerousdeo5113

2 жыл бұрын

@@cheeseman498 Aww no that is gutting, the ATI cards are so prone to failing. I have been lucky with mine. Are you going to consider restoring it? :)

@Lubzy

2 жыл бұрын

Still better than my pc

@Zebra_Paw

2 жыл бұрын

patch it to High Sierra. You will have no issues with Apple and 3rd party apps due to the GPU being officially supported in the OS

@samuel_ford04

2 жыл бұрын

@@cheeseman498 you need Samsung SDD :)

I still use this exact Mac with Monterey using OpenCore Patcher. The GPU is supported and it works fine with 8GB RAM and SSD

@Zebra_Paw

2 жыл бұрын

Now they introduced Beta Blur so you can use Monterey without glitches. Also photobooth doesnt work. Easy fix: take the photobooth from Big Sur

@lorenzo.delbello

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zebra_Paw Yes, I use the latest version of apps that doesn't require only Metal GPU, like Photoshop 2020 and older Final Cut

@Zebra_Paw

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorenzo.delbello OK, cool then! But iMovie 10.1.12 does not run in Big Sur and later.

@lorenzo.delbello

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zebra_Paw No, I had the same problem with Final Cut, the icon appears with the "stop" logo. But on KZread there is a simple way to run it using Terminal and it runs just fine. I have edited and exported a video without any problems even in latest Monterey 12.3.1

@Zebra_Paw

2 жыл бұрын

@@lorenzo.delbello But you need terminal everytime you launch it?

I just scored the same for 25€, including the original packaging. It's now sitting on my repairwork desk, and works like a charm :) 4GB RAM and an SSD sure make it usable again.

@lefteris.adamou.1

2 жыл бұрын

Where could you find it for that price?

The spider completes web development on this iMac way better than me.

@syedia

2 жыл бұрын

Favourite part of the video

“Spiders like to use macs for their web development” GOLD!

In the States, that spider is known as a house spider or cellar spider, and "Daddy Long Legs" is reserved for the spider that's also called the "Harvestman". The cellar spider is very GOOD for your home, and the daddy long legs is completely harmless!

Top 1 reasons why Psivewri is one of the best youtube channels: He doesn't kill spiders, relocates them properly

@Brian-jv8iy

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but relocating them to your toolshed 😟 Haven’t seen spiders in the last 3 years honestly, weird, and I have no close by neighbors and just nature all around

@goqwertygo

2 жыл бұрын

@@Brian-jv8iy one of the first and only techtubers that I've seen that doesn't get all squeamish when seeing a spider and or webs in PC cases😄

@mavicman21

2 жыл бұрын

Well he lives in Australia so he knows how to deal with spiders.

@sgeggbub1008

2 жыл бұрын

@@mavicman21 Exactly, everyone from other places completely freak out though realistically, the spider in question is not more harmful that the average fly

My som grabbed me a 2008 model from his job at a recycling center a few weeks back, and i loved upgrading it. I want to do more on it , but i didn't go far enough to redo paste yet

@imixmuan9081

2 жыл бұрын

dosdude 1 patcher and Catalina or any flavor of XFCE Linux and you have a very usable machine in 2022.

love the content man, keep it up!

I bought a 2008 24 inch iMac, for 50 dollars in a goodwill store while thrifting. I put in a ssd, maxed out the ram and used the dosdude patcher to run modern os. It is still a good PC for most situations.

LOOOOL Turns out spiders like to use Macs for their WEB DEVELOPMENT. GMFU. good one sir.

These macs are pretty cool. I recently bought one in brand new condition, the last owner said he bought a computer in 2007 and used only once so it came with original box (the serial number matched), never used original: keyboard, mouse, cleaning cloth, remote, manuals books and cd instalation disc. He even gave me wireless magic keyboard 1 and wireless mouse with box and in perfect condition. Maybe someone can think that i overpaid for it paying 250usd but i live in contry that is pretty imposible to buy fully functional computer for less then 250usd.

@yourfriendlysubaruoutback

2 жыл бұрын

If it was in mint condition, and with everything you said, 250 was a great price.

@dieforyourecords.

2 жыл бұрын

Not trying to start anything but impossible( I'm just correcting ppl (;

@yourfriendlysubaruoutback

2 жыл бұрын

@@dieforyourecords. It's not entirely far-fetched. The guy he bought it from could have been a computer enthusiast and already had a main computer, so he just put it in storage, thinking he would use it some day. 15 years later, he finds it after forgetting about it, and sells it.

@dieforyourecords.

2 жыл бұрын

@@yourfriendlysubaruoutback I was correcting gabrynios comment because he said imposible instead of impossible but yeah your right

“Web development” you genius lmfaoooo

Love watching how passionate you are when it comes to old Apple hardware. I hope this one sells at a good price :)

Very good you sold this off to charity, everything just for people that need help. 💗

They should rename ucalyptis oil to psivewri oil

I bought on of these from reboot for $120 and put in an SSD ( thanks to your video) I still use it for email, web and KZread. It works great and a real bargain. I've seen a lot of these at Cash converters in Adelaide too.

I use two of these early 2009 machines as my main desktops. They are still great and there is still a lot you can do with them. Mine are 24" models, which I prefer.

@danhutchinsonbackup

Жыл бұрын

I have the 20 inch version and I'm actually quite surprised at how useable it still is today. I even use it as a secondary computer and it lives right next to my late 2015 iMac which is my main computer

Amazing video bro I love it amazing job!

ANOTHER great episode. There's very little more satisfying on KZread than these cool productions.

Enjoyed watching you as always :-) Would be fun to see you do a iMac late 2009 cleaning and maybe upgrading it

Amazing Channel Love The Great Content

True legend ❤️ amazing stuff 😉

Thanks for saving the spider

i currently daily drive a mid 2007 24in iMac and it works amazing for its age.

I'm using this with Monterey :) This model is fully supported with Opencore Legacy Patcher and it runs perfectly fine.

Nice. I have a 9,1 that is still one of my daily drivers. I keep it in my kitchen for when I need to reference things, for recipes, and have my work O365 account on there so I can easily keep in touch with the office and such. It's the old iMac I have that's still a daily driver. I also love the fact it still has an optical drive. I have the Catalina patcher on it, and for what I use it for, I have no complaints. I also have Remote Desktop to jump into the two PCs I have on my network, and of course I can easily screen share with any of the other Macs I have on the network... which is also a cool way to get modern use out of the the older CRT iMacs and the eMac if you want a cool conversation piece ;)

I picked up the same Imac broken for like 5 bucks and turned it into a Display for my Windows PC and Im currently watching the video on it haha

awesome job

I installed Monterey on one of these (along with other similar era Macs). It runs fine with 8GB RAM and an SSD.

Cheap and Apple in the same sentence doesn't match 😂😂😂

Nice video keep it up

awesome! we picked one up for free on freecycle, and since macos isnt my favourite, i popped it open and put in a hard drive with windows 10 on it, shes great and runs pristinely.

@Techlevel1534.

6 ай бұрын

Running windows 10 on a core 2 duo isn’t the best experience

@riotix1196

6 ай бұрын

@@Techlevel1534. honestly it isnt but at least the os was optimised for security updates and newer programs

Hi there this a great video, I have similar Imac but when I put the new SSD in I got a grey folder with ? flashing and I cant get it to load the Mac OS X whatever I do, any ideas?

I love these old iMacs, the fact that you can still use boot camp and have a dual operating system makes them very usable in 2022.

watching from the Philippines! :)

i have about the same exact iMac as my main computer, it's still very usable and i managed to install high sierra on it using the dosdude patch, it runs perfectly fine on it and i would definetly recommand re-benchmarking the iMac using a newer version of MacOS

@ulunkwulunk

2 жыл бұрын

How much did it cost to buy?

@sourg3294

2 жыл бұрын

@@ulunkwulunk i paid a bit too much at 150 euros but it was on perfect condition since it was refurbished

I love these videos

I have the same and it’s been having thermal issues since 2011. I think the ATI Radeon used to overheat and then the processor too. Then it would suddenly shut off.

I had this when I was younger... used to love it 😂

You are such a fan of iMac computers.

I actually watched the old video two days ago because I actually picked up a 24 inch model from the same year and I was looking for upgrade paths

Repairing an old iMac from my sister-in-law. Thanks for the overview and web development pun!

Cool iMac, I have a Compaq Presario V3000 Laptop

my high school still had these a couple of years ago, they probably still have them today

The thumbnail scared me lol im arachnophobic

Great job sir

The spiders is really good at web development 😎Even he doesn't want to leave the iMac

I have this same year iMac that I use at home, if I want to upgrade the ramp, can I simply just pull the ram out swap it for a bigger ram or is there other steps I need to do? Also, if I upgrade the RAM, what are the benefits I assume it will run faster and be able to handle certain tasks better.

I recently got several iMac A1224s (Mid 2007, Early 2008), and I really enjoyed cleaning them! I wish to get my hands on this Early 2009 model (A1225), since it comes with DDR3 RAM. As always, this is a great video!

@EvilTurkeySlices

2 жыл бұрын

I fairly recently started my Mac collection with a 2006 core duo iMac. It now has been flashed as a core 2 duo iMac and has 3gb of ram. I also bought a 2010 MacBook Pro, two PowerBook g4(one titanium, one 17 inch), a 2011 iMac, a 2007 MacBook Pro 17 inch, and an iMac g5.

@kielagut

2 жыл бұрын

@@EvilTurkeySlices that’s great! I also did that iMac4,1 project, updated the firmware, upgraded CPU to a C2D, SSD, and 3GB RAM! I used Boot Camp to dual boot Snow Leopard and Windows 7 (haven’t figured out how to white list the logic board so Lion can be installed).

@EvilTurkeySlices

2 жыл бұрын

@@kielagut I just have snow leopard installed now. I used to have windows XP as well but the hard drive died and I haven’t gotten around to setting it up again. Also how did you get windows 7 working? I tried 7 32-bit but I couldn’t get the graphics drivers working. Even from the official snow leopard disk.

@kielagut

2 жыл бұрын

@@EvilTurkeySlices I downloaded and installed Boot Camp v3 on my Windows 7 installation, it was able to successfully install all required drivers. I think the audio driver was the tricky part, but Boot Camp also managed to make it work somehow.

subscribed for a giveaway a year ago stayed because of your passion towards obsolete hardware ❤️❤️

0:31 The joke is really funny!

Hey Psi, your video got recommended to me, I had no idea you're in Adelaide too! I have some old tech you could borrow if you wanted to make a video on it; anything you're particularly interested in?

Use OCLP to update to Mac OS Sonoma

The mac I have is from 2012 and its the mac mini which I already installed the latest Ubuntu Linux over it and erased the mac os it had. It already feels smoother with the ram upgrade too to 8gb.

Australia and spider is an unbreakable patnership

i still have 2008 iMac i bought few years ago it was very clean i upgrade from 2 gb to 4 gb its still works great i test games on it i bought from gog most of them do work ok

@danhutchinsonbackup

Жыл бұрын

I have an early 2009 iMac 20 inch which lives next to my 21.5 inch late 2015 iMac. I use my early 2009 iMac mainly to play old versions of Minecraft which don't work properly on Monterey. But work fine on El Capitan

It looks so good the curved bezel

Your uploads make me happy Today I had a crap day, but you managed to fix it ^-^

I have an old iMac, like 2011 but it runs well. I’d like to install the newest OS but it’s too old. Any tips?

cool keep of the good content

I should have you restore the Power Mac G5 I found in a landfill. I'm sure that will be a challenge.

good boy PUP🐾😉😄

I have the iMac from late 2011 (education market edition). I still use the mac (macOS High Sierra 10.13.6) to this day. Currently planning for an SSD upgrade by the end of the year.

@Techlevel1534.

6 ай бұрын

You can use opencore legacy patcher to install Mac OS 14 Sonoma on it. My 2011 iMac runs Sonoma perfectly and pretty fast. It has a SSD and quad core i5.

@mustasheolll2020

4 ай бұрын

@@Techlevel1534.I was thinking of hackintoshing my Dell Optiplex 990 which is my main computer, but I gave up and may get a M1 Mac mini or a new one. I do have an M1 Macbook Air but it’s more of a household computer.

Spiders like web-development too!, Nice!!

Can we have a link to the original video?

"Web development" 😂

¡More, and more, please! XD

I have that exact same model iMac and I have 8GB of RAM with it running macOS Catalina

make a video of you laptop collection. that will be so cool

The spider web development joke caught me off guard I got whiplash

0:30 LOL (joke of the day):))))

I have that iMac and the truth is that computer is still fantastic! my mac has 4gb ram and 1tb ssd.

I tried to erase and reload OS X on mine and it’s saying it won’t boot up anything now ht should I do with it? It’s got to be worth something to someone ?

Omg dude just kill the spider lol

These things are great windows retro gaming pc. Big nice displays great speakers decent graphics for the time. Buy one while they are cheap

1:49 a wahobowter bowtle

I love a 24 inch 2009 iMac with an upgraded metal GPU, 8 RAM, 1 TB SSD, and a core 2 duo 2.66 ghz and I use it everyday as my main computer on macOS Monterey patched on it!

Hey tried resetting my imac A2125 , started not uploading on the load bar on start up , took forever and would never boot up -- now it’s completely blank and is making a beeping noise every few seconds , not the 3 beep the “” the one that beeps every few seconds ….it’s running El Capitan help if you can thanks ❤

I have the same SSD on my laptop, it's decent for a cheap DRAM-less drive. :)

I would have looked at updating the cpu, I think there is a model of intel chip that can use the same socket but can run mojave. Its the chip in one of the mac laptop models.

I have an 2007 mid iMac, it will be compatible with 8GB for the RAM memory? :O

Hi! I have same model, early 2008 20" C2D 2,66ghz. mine has issue with GPU thermal sensor. It reads 129 degrees celsius all the time and it is, let's say, okay in non graphic tasks, but in all other tasks are sooo slow. how can I give my mac a second life? No service was brave enough to take my mac in and service it properly. I guess just thermal sensor has to be replaced...

Oddly enough I've just got a free early 2008 imac from the father in law. Core2 duo 2.6 (i have a 3.0 but Im holding off as its involved to get to the CPU!!), upgraded the ram to 6Gb (max possible), dropped in a 500G SSD, and a patched version of High Sierra. Runs Pro Tools 11 just fine

0:32 classic pun

Kudos for sparing Mr. Spider.

How did you prepare install usb? I have tried many version of OS but still couldn't get pass through the login to apple account.

I have a media PC that i never really used but somehow after less than a year, the fans are clogged with dust

"Used by spiders for their web development" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

i have same imac with same upgrades

Well that spider in the thumbnail seemed to really like that imac

@Psivewri what is the music used in this video?

wow you are great :)

I want one too

What's your intro/outro music love it

Can you use that machine as an external monitor for a laptop? Or is the screen hardwired to the circuits of the actual computer?

@DerChrissixx

2 жыл бұрын

unfortunately i think its the latter one

looks like it’s connected to the web well enough