I spotted this iMac being sold for very little on FB Marketplace so decided to take a punt
It was described as reset to factory settings and fully working
Not quite true but ok then
This iMac is from mid 2011 and has a second generation Core i5 2400S processor running at 2.50GHz along with 8GB of RAM and a 500GB hard disc
It has a built in webcam, stereo speakers, a DVD burner and a SDXC card reader all housed inside a 21.5 inch screen
It came with the wrong keyboard and mouse, but the computer itself is quite nice looking, it is fairly heavy though
The screen is very reflective, it was quite hard to take photos of, but you can see the webcam above the screen in the middle
On one side are the DVD burner and card readers
The base of the computer has the stereo speakers, they sound quite good
The only ports available are audio in and out, four USB 2.0, Firewire, Thunderbolt, and gigabit ethernet
The permenantly attached power cable comes out the middle behind the stand just above the security lock slot and the momentary power button is on the other side
The stand allows the angle of the screen to be adjusted but not the height and the model information is on the bottom of the stand and is almost impossible to read
The moulded plug
This is the Apple Pro Keyboard which was not the original keyboard, but it work fine, it is very dirty and the dirt seems to be behind the plasic shell, the cable is damaged at the keyboard end
Likewise this is the Apple Pro Mouse and it isn't the original mouse, and it has also got dirt behind the plastic. The ring around the LED alters the mouse click feel, but it doesn't seem to make much difference in use
Lets fire it up and see if it works, the Apple Mac Startup Sound sounds very nice with the bass in the speakers, and despite being advertised as working, it failed to boot, only booting into recovery (eventually), none of the options would work, even online recovery, just stating it was unable to contact the recovery servers. It seems that Mac OS 10.13 High Sierra was installed
I still had the install USB for the MacBook which had Snow Leopard on it, that caused a Kernal Panic
I also had a ChromeOS Flex install USB and that seemed to work right up until the desktop where it went to a black screen and mouse pointer
I tried booting Windows 10 and decided that was a stupid idea
In the end I had to install Linux Mint which installed perfectly, and finally allowed me to see the system specs
I'm now tempted to connect this to the Apple Cinema Display, should I do that? Will it even work? Let me know or place your bets now in the comments
?RETURN WITHOUT GOSUB ERROR