Restoring Apple's Cheapest iMac... From 13 Years Ago!
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Today we’re going to be restoring Apple’s cheapest iMac from 13 years ago. I originally got this in a large lot of old tech, cleaned it up and gave it to my partner a few years ago. Now, it’s time to restore it once more and sell it off for charity :) #apple #imac #restoration
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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 :)
I love the old iMacs! Love the content, always a fan!
Would that be the emac?
@@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
@@The_JohnF pretty sure the emac was discontinued years earlier.
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
LOL
This is wordpress
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Nice puns
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Two things that never get old
1)Eucalyptus oil
2) old-school runescape
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 :)
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
@@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? :)
Still better than my pc
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
@@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
Now they introduced Beta Blur so you can use Monterey without glitches.
Also photobooth doesnt work. Easy fix: take the photobooth from Big Sur
@@Zebra_Paw Yes, I use the latest version of apps that doesn't require only Metal GPU, like Photoshop 2020 and older Final Cut
@@lorenzo.delbello OK, cool then!
But iMovie 10.1.12 does not run in Big Sur and later.
@@Zebra_Paw No, I had the same problem with Final Cut, the icon appears with the "stop" logo. But on TH-cam 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
@@lorenzo.delbello But you need terminal everytime you launch it?
The spider completes web development on this iMac way better than me.
Favourite part of the video
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.
“Spiders like to use macs for their web development” GOLD!
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.
Where could you find it for that price?
Top 1 reasons why Psivewri is one of the best youtube channels:
He doesn't kill spiders, relocates them properly
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
@@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😄
Well he lives in Australia so he knows how to deal with spiders.
@@mavicman21 Exactly, everyone from other places completely freak out though realistically, the spider in question is not more harmful that the average fly
Thanks for saving the spider
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.
If it was in mint condition, and with everything you said, 250 was a great price.
Not trying to start anything but impossible( I'm just correcting ppl (;
@@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.
@@yourfriendlysubaruoutback I was correcting gabrynios comment because he said imposible instead of impossible but yeah your right
Repairing an old iMac from my sister-in-law. Thanks for the overview and web development pun!
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
dosdude 1 patcher and Catalina or any flavor of XFCE Linux and you have a very usable machine in 2022.
i currently daily drive a mid 2007 24in iMac and it works amazing for its age.
love the content man, keep it up!
They should rename ucalyptis oil to psivewri oil
LOOOOL Turns out spiders like to use Macs for their WEB DEVELOPMENT. GMFU. good one sir.
“Web development” you genius lmfaoooo
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!
Very good you sold this off to charity, everything just for people that need help. 💗
You are such a fan of iMac computers.
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 TH-cam. It works great and a real bargain. I've seen a lot of these at Cash converters in Adelaide too.
Your uploads make me happy
Today I had a crap day, but you managed to fix it ^-^
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.
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
ANOTHER great episode. There's very little more satisfying on TH-cam than these cool productions.
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.
Cool iMac, I have a Compaq Presario V3000 Laptop
I had this when I was younger... used to love it 😂
1:49 a wahobowter bowtle
Love watching how passionate you are when it comes to old Apple hardware.
I hope this one sells at a good price :)
Use OCLP to update to Mac OS Sonoma
subscribed for a giveaway a year ago
stayed because of your passion towards obsolete hardware ❤️❤️
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
The spiders is really good at web development 😎Even he doesn't want to leave the iMac
I want one too
I'm using this with Monterey :) This model is fully supported with Opencore Legacy Patcher and it runs perfectly fine.
Enjoyed watching you as always :-)
Would be fun to see you do a iMac late 2009 cleaning and maybe upgrading it
my high school still had these a couple of years ago, they probably still have them today
Amazing Channel Love The Great Content
Australia and spider is an unbreakable patnership
Cheap and Apple in the same sentence doesn't match 😂😂😂
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.
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.
@@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.
awesome job
Spiders like web-development too!, Nice!!
The thumbnail scared me lol im arachnophobic
0:31 The joke is really funny!
0:32 classic pun
I installed Monterey on one of these (along with other similar era Macs).
It runs fine with 8GB RAM and an SSD.
Well that spider in the thumbnail seemed to really like that imac
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
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
How much did it cost to buy?
@@ulunkwulunk i paid a bit too much at 150 euros but it was on perfect condition since it was refurbished
make a video of you laptop collection. that will be so cool
It looks so good the curved bezel
watching from the Philippines! :)
Amazing video bro I love it amazing job!
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.
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 ;)
Time to wipe down the girlfriend with eucalyptus oil along with the Mac.
r/holup
Please, release the backround music written by you! The world needs it!
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.
Running windows 10 on a core 2 duo isn’t the best experience
@@Techlevel1534. honestly it isnt but at least the os was optimised for security updates and newer programs
Great job sir
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
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
These things are great windows retro gaming pc. Big nice displays great speakers decent graphics for the time. Buy one while they are cheap
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!
True legend ❤️ amazing stuff 😉
This is something I would not think of I had a pc from 1989
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?
What a gentleman, he saved the spider.
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
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?
The spider web development joke caught me off guard I got whiplash
i have same imac with same upgrades
Omg dude just kill the spider lol
I have that iMac and the truth is that computer is still fantastic!
my mac has 4gb ram and 1tb ssd.
6:32 Wait a sec he didn't use the Keychron Keyboard
I have that exact same model iMac and I have 8GB of RAM with it running macOS Catalina
Kudos for sparing Mr. Spider.
Can we have a link to the original video?
Fun fact: daddy long legs spiders not only are harmless to humans, but they also kill & eat red back spiders
that's a harvestman - the most venomous arachnid apparently, just that the amounts of its poison are so minuscule they are harmless to us.
Even we have that spider over here (Sweden). Must be one of the most common types, globally speaking?
looks like it’s connected to the web well enough
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!
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.
@@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).
@@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.
@@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.
I did exactly what you did on my 27" iMac (Mid 2011) 3.1GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5, but it lasted 5 months until the heatsink failed again. I'm planing to upgrade it to 3.4Ghz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, along with the AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5 card (mine is 1GB).
For security purposes, Safari isn't an option for browsing the web for macOS can't be upgraded any longer; so I was using Chrome. I only used this computer for basic stuff, and while I can get me a new one, for what I'll use it for, I prefer to repair it.
I know this model is very good, and of that I'm sure! But, do you think it's worth the time and money spent on this model? And if you do, is there anything else I might need to do to make it run smoother? Thank you so much for your time!
0:00 Tobey Maguire’s iMac
This can most likely run Mojave with the dosdude patcher. I have a MacBook Pro with the same CPU that runs it no problems. This also has NVIDIA graphics instead of AMD so there won’t be any weird graphical issues.
What's your intro/outro music love it
"I didn't notice the spider when I picked it up" Normal day in Australia...
It's same here in Bulgaria, especially if you're living in a house instead of apartment. I was surprised that so many people mentioned, I was thinking there are equal amount of spiders everywhere in the world :D
Hi, question from the community. I am always a windows user, not a mac user, so don't know much about iMacs. I am about to buy a cheap used iMac (Early 2009) and I want to simply stich videos together. No fancy editing. I will be transferring videos from iphone 14 pro. Will this computer be able to handle?
I love these videos
good boy PUP🐾😉😄
You can install much newer MacOS with available patchers.
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.
Spiders, ants, worms... & company limited ... love living inside of MacBooks and other Apple computers.
I have the mid level 24 inch Version of that iMac. I only retired because of the Gpu died.
I should have you restore the Power Mac G5 I found in a landfill. I'm sure that will be a challenge.
"Used by spiders for their web development"
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I have the same iMac, a 24" iMac 7,1