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I found a 20" mid 2007 iMac in the trash last week. It's a bit dirty but otherwise in good shape. The OS had been wiped, but it still had the recovery partition for Mavericks on it. The first thing I did was to install Mint Linux on it, which ran well with only 2GB of RAM. However, I didn't manage to get wifi to work despite trying a few different drivers. I then installed OS X 10.4.11 Tiger on in just for giggles. The installation went smoothly and it found my local wireless networks during the setup stage, but once the OS was running it won't let me enable the Airport card. I've never experienced an issue like this before and it makes me think there is something wrong with it.

Here it is next to my other trash-found iMac, a 2012 model, which I'm currently using to share internet over Ethernet.

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