I got lucky at the dumpster today. Found two computers in great condition, probably from the same person. Neither of the machines required any cleanup.
The first computer was an iMac. At first glance, I thought it was a G5, so I grabbed it and happily skipped all the way home. Upon plugging it in though, I found out that it was a first-gen Intel Mac. A little disappointing, but hey--at least I can throw a real operating system on there thanks to Bootcamp! 😁
Specs:
Intel Core Duo T2500 @ 2GHz. That's Core Duo, not Core 2 Duo. It's basically a dual-core Pentium M, so it can only run 32-bit software.
Radeon X1600 GPU
20" 1680x1050 display. The color saturation and viewing angles on this display are excellent. I think it may actually be an IPS or VA panel, but haven't looked at any detailed specs on this system yet.
2GB of DDR2-667 memory
250GB SATA HDD
OS X 10.6.8. I'm definitely not a fan of OS X, but I think newer versions of the OS were free upgrades for Snow Leopard users, so I'll probably update that. I will definitely install Windows 7 on this machine.
2nd computer was a Toshiba Satellite 100CS. Unfortunately, this machine didn't have a hard drive in it, so I don't really know what makes it tick, other than the 16MB of installed RAM. I believe I have a few notebook drives in the 1-8GB range, so I should be able to get this up and running soon.
This wasn't a dumpster find, but a friend of mine gave me his set of Radeon HD 5770 video cards when he upgraded last month. They're certainly nice to have, but I'll probably just put them in storage for now, since I don't have a machine that needs one of these. Unfortunately, the only motherboard I have that supports Crossfire is the Socket 2011 board in my main computer. I kinda regret selling that old A8R-MVP S939 Crossfire board now!
94 MHz NEC VR4300 | SGI Reality CoPro | 8MB RDRAM | Each game gets its own SSD - nooice!