Re:Buy Something (Score 1)

I have an old iMac 233 which I installed OSX 10.2 onto last year. It has a larger HD which I partitioned into one 7 GB part, and a couple of others (OSX MUST be installed into a partition entirely in the first 8 GB on this machine). I upped the RAM to a 128/256 configuration, and added an external, USB CD writer (Predator). It works just fine, although quite slow at times. If you can stand the wait, it's OK. If you buy a cheap HD and at least 256M memory, the performance will do the job. BUT.... I just went out last June and bought a new iMac 17". This computer is so sweet, that I do want to encourage you to go buy one. One side benefit is the ability to copy any DVD using the iMac (and DVDbackup and DVD2onex). This machine is much faster, and a joy to use, where I was normally frustrated before. The ols iMac is in the bedroom used to serve iTunes to my stereos, and as a quick internet station. so, it works fine for you to wait (wait and get a G5!), or buy new. There are financing plans, but the machine will be outdated before you pay it off. I recommend just buying new. But the 266 will work.