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Life Expectancy of iMac
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<blockquote data-quote="Algus" data-source="post: 1561960" data-attributes="member: 319021"><p>The big bottleneck on these older machines is their limited graphics capability, which is a nonissue if you are only using your computer for basic tasks: office use, web browsing, music, etc. A friend of mine who is a photographer still uses a 2007 iMac for basic photo editing and it is adequate. Many of these tasks were easily handled by computers in the early to mid 2000s and they still work just fine, especially if they were higher end systems like iMacs to start with. </p><p></p><p>I hang on some forums that talk classic computing a lot and there are guys out there still using old things like Amigas, Atari STs, and the like for everyday computing tasks. My System 7 setup on Basilisk is still adequate for web browsing as well. Really it just depends on how happy you are with your existing machines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Algus, post: 1561960, member: 319021"] The big bottleneck on these older machines is their limited graphics capability, which is a nonissue if you are only using your computer for basic tasks: office use, web browsing, music, etc. A friend of mine who is a photographer still uses a 2007 iMac for basic photo editing and it is adequate. Many of these tasks were easily handled by computers in the early to mid 2000s and they still work just fine, especially if they were higher end systems like iMacs to start with. I hang on some forums that talk classic computing a lot and there are guys out there still using old things like Amigas, Atari STs, and the like for everyday computing tasks. My System 7 setup on Basilisk is still adequate for web browsing as well. Really it just depends on how happy you are with your existing machines. [/QUOTE]
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