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Nostalgia. I still have one of these cool G4 iMacs tucked away, and yeah we used the modem for our dialup Internet connection.

It is amazingly heavy.

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The "dome" portion is cast metal under the white plastic (iow: there is a case metal dome that all the electronics sit inside), which serves as a heat sink for the chips (cpu has a rather long heat pipe to one of the 4 screw posts that hold the bottom to the dome part) and ballast to keep the monitor upright

The weak link was the arm, they tended to suffer from droop after a while and it was difficult to repair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5P3QDm61go

There was a year of Intel iMacs that had that (2013?)

> It is amazingly heavy.

I had to carry mine home from the store, because I didn't have a car.

Oof! Worth it though. Best iMac ever.

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