Well, the used Apple eMac that I purchased last year November went kaput. The power supplied on it died. My wife and I were on vacation in California for 2 weeks and when we got back and I tried to power up the eMac I just heard a clicking sound from within the eMac case, it didn’t even power up the screen or hard drive.
The eMac was used to begin with, and got about a good year use out of it. I opened the eMac up and tried to see if I could fix the power supply, but because the eMac is a all-in-one computer, everything is proprietary, not like a PC where you can easily replace components. It didn’t look like it was going to be easy at all.
I then did a little search on Google to see if parts are easily available, and of course the answer here is no, because the eMac was at least 5-7 years old, and even if the parts were the cost of parts and shipping would not justify repairing this thing.
It’s too bad that my eMac died, I did enjoy using the Mac OS X operating system a lot more than Windows XP. It was a lot stable and didn’t have to worry about viruses so much. In the meantime, my cousin gave me his old Asus Laptop with 1 GB of RAM and a 1.7 GHz processor, and I guess I will have to use this with Windows XP temporarily until I can build my hackintosh (Mac OS X on PC Hardware). Actually I heard good things about “Tiny XP by Experience” for low RAM and computers, so I will give that try. I did however salvage the hard drive and the DVD-R Writer from the eMac, I can use these components in my Hackintosh.
I mentioned hackintosh in my last paragraph which is basically PC Hardware with either retail Apple Mac OS X or a hacked version of Mac OS X installed. I have already started buy my components, I am hoping to have this hackintosh project completed by June / July time-frame. We will see how it goes.
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