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    From Ken@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 4 11:55:17 2022
    It's time my 24" early-2009 iMac went to the Genius Bar in the Sky. I
    tweaked it a bit: I added a second 4GB of official Apple memory and
    later replaced the HDD with a 2TB one, then replaced that with a 1TB
    SSD.
    I know it could be a useful machine with Linux. I did for a while run dosdude1's patched MacOS but something wasn't right - it kept freezing
    for tens of seconds.
    So I have no use for it. It's so old that Safari baulks at most
    websites (or vice versa) and many apps (including those comprising
    Office) won't run.
    It just seems too nice to bin. Any use cases for such a machine? Not
    after money, just a good home.

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  • From Ken@21:1/5 to David@invalid.invalid on Sun Sep 4 12:37:00 2022
    On Sun, 4 Sep 2022 12:31:11 +0100, David Brooks
    <David@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 04/09/2022 11:55, Ken wrote:
    It's time my 24" early-2009 iMac went to the Genius Bar in the Sky. I
    tweaked it a bit: I added a second 4GB of official Apple memory and
    later replaced the HDD with a 2TB one, then replaced that with a 1TB
    SSD.
    I know it could be a useful machine with Linux. I did for a while run
    dosdude1's patched MacOS but something wasn't right - it kept freezing
    for tens of seconds.
    So I have no use for it. It's so old that Safari baulks at most
    websites (or vice versa) and many apps (including those comprising
    Office) won't run.
    It just seems too nice to bin. Any use cases for such a machine? Not
    after money, just a good home.

    FYI, I have an even older one, running Linux Mint. It works like a dream! ?


    I'm sure it does, but I run Mint on a VM. This is taking up space in
    my wife's study - and she wants it gone!

    It's sitting side by side with my 27 inch iMac running Monterey Version >12.5.1

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  • From David Brooks@21:1/5 to Ken on Sun Sep 4 12:31:11 2022
    On 04/09/2022 11:55, Ken wrote:
    It's time my 24" early-2009 iMac went to the Genius Bar in the Sky. I
    tweaked it a bit: I added a second 4GB of official Apple memory and
    later replaced the HDD with a 2TB one, then replaced that with a 1TB
    SSD.
    I know it could be a useful machine with Linux. I did for a while run dosdude1's patched MacOS but something wasn't right - it kept freezing
    for tens of seconds.
    So I have no use for it. It's so old that Safari baulks at most
    websites (or vice versa) and many apps (including those comprising
    Office) won't run.
    It just seems too nice to bin. Any use cases for such a machine? Not
    after money, just a good home.

    FYI, I have an even older one, running Linux Mint. It works like a dream! 😅

    It's sitting side by side with my 27 inch iMac running Monterey Version
    12.5.1

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  • From Alan B@21:1/5 to Ken on Sun Sep 4 11:53:51 2022
    Ken <ken@birchanger.com> wrote:
    It's time my 24" early-2009 iMac went to the Genius Bar in the Sky. I
    tweaked it a bit: I added a second 4GB of official Apple memory and
    later replaced the HDD with a 2TB one, then replaced that with a 1TB
    SSD.
    I know it could be a useful machine with Linux. I did for a while run dosdude1's patched MacOS but something wasn't right - it kept freezing
    for tens of seconds.
    So I have no use for it. It's so old that Safari baulks at most
    websites (or vice versa) and many apps (including those comprising
    Office) won't run.
    It just seems too nice to bin. Any use cases for such a machine? Not
    after money, just a good home.

    Maybe you can donate it to charity, e.g.

    <https://www.computers4charity.org>

    --
    Cheers, Alan

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  • From David Brooks@21:1/5 to Ken on Sun Sep 4 16:20:45 2022
    On 04/09/2022 12:37, Ken wrote:
    On Sun, 4 Sep 2022 12:31:11 +0100, David Brooks
    <David@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 04/09/2022 11:55, Ken wrote:
    It's time my 24" early-2009 iMac went to the Genius Bar in the Sky. I
    tweaked it a bit: I added a second 4GB of official Apple memory and
    later replaced the HDD with a 2TB one, then replaced that with a 1TB
    SSD.
    I know it could be a useful machine with Linux. I did for a while run
    dosdude1's patched MacOS but something wasn't right - it kept freezing
    for tens of seconds.
    So I have no use for it. It's so old that Safari baulks at most
    websites (or vice versa) and many apps (including those comprising
    Office) won't run.
    It just seems too nice to bin. Any use cases for such a machine? Not
    after money, just a good home.

    FYI, I have an even older one, running Linux Mint. It works like a dream! ? >>

    I'm sure it does, but I run Mint on a VM. This is taking up space in
    my wife's study - and she wants it gone!

    Say no more! ;-)

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  • From Andy Hewitt@21:1/5 to Ken on Sun Sep 4 17:36:06 2022
    On 04/09/2022 11:55, Ken wrote:
    It's time my 24" early-2009 iMac went to the Genius Bar in the Sky. I
    tweaked it a bit: I added a second 4GB of official Apple memory and
    later replaced the HDD with a 2TB one, then replaced that with a 1TB
    SSD.
    I know it could be a useful machine with Linux. I did for a while run dosdude1's patched MacOS but something wasn't right - it kept freezing
    for tens of seconds.
    So I have no use for it. It's so old that Safari baulks at most
    websites (or vice versa) and many apps (including those comprising
    Office) won't run.
    It just seems too nice to bin. Any use cases for such a machine? Not
    after money, just a good home.

    Have you tried OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

    It's brought my old 2013 iMac 27" (16GB RAM, and a Crucial 512GB SSD) a
    new lease of life for sure. I installed Monterey onto it, and it's
    working well, even allowing some of the extra features to work - such as Universal Control (works fine), and Sidecar (a bit iffy).

    Everything else is OK.

    https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

    There are a variety of options if you want to stick with an earlier OS,
    but Monterey in running as fast as the last 10.x.x OS did.

    The freezing might suggest a dying HDD if you have any attached, I've
    seen that happen a few times here, usually I find an increasing
    Reallocated Sector count (using DriveDX).

    Cheers

    --
    Andy H

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Ken on Sun Sep 4 21:12:23 2022
    Ken <ken@birchanger.com> wrote:
    So I have no use for it. It's so old that Safari baulks at most
    websites (or vice versa) and many apps (including those comprising
    Office) won't run.
    It just seems too nice to bin. Any use cases for such a machine? Not
    after money, just a good home.

    It seems like it doesn't support Target Display Mode, but it is possible to pull the motherboard and fit a conversion board to turn it into a monitor: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2009-imac-conversion-to-monitor-help.2231058/
    https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/117066/Can+I+Mod+an+early+2009+24%22+iMac+to+external+monitor

    However the question is then who wants a 1920x1200 24" display. It seems
    like a decent display for its time, but whether it's worth investing in the extra parts and time to do the conversion is another thing.

    Theo

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