The Powermac G5 is still a very capable machine

I'm just jabbering on trying to make a point, I think :S

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• Powermac
• G5
• Apple
• Mac
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• Intel
• PowerPC

[zombra6]

Im selling mine: G5 1.9 MHZ dual,22' monitor, no keyboard, OX 5.4 works exellent. for $400 or best offer.

[360ownez]

@zombra6 Nobody will give you $400 for that, you'll get about $300-$350

[fatninja32]

How much will u sell it for because u are in the uk right I live in Leicester and I would like to buy it pm me plz

[360ownez]

@fatninja32 Honestly i don't know, its going on ebay in a few days(Weekend) bidding will start at about £160 and buy it now will be £220 :') i will PM you a link once its up. One thing you should know is this machine is no longer running leopard like in this video, as i had to reinstall the entire OS and i had no leopard disk. Its Currently running Tiger with 1GB of ram :)

[FeeLtheHertZ]

Just 1 GB OF RAM?! This thing will FLY with more RAM, and add an SSD, it's over man. haha

ARe you on MacRumors at all? Whole space dedicated to PPC macs, esp. the G5 :D

[360ownez]

@FeeLtheHertZ Nope, I've made the "Upgrade" to intel with my new Mac Mini. I'm Selling this old G5 in a couple of days :'(

[earlyepitaph]

I have a 6corepc@4.1Ghz with 6970s in crossfire, BUT I managed to snag a "broken" Quad core 2.7GHz G5 with liquid cooling off of craigslist for 40 bucks.I flashed an ati card, replaced the 7 year old PRAM battery, and it booted perfectly. The G5 can't out encode my pc, but it sure feels like it can. It really does run very smooth. The G5 is to computers as the 67' Vette is to muscle cars. Now if somebody can point me to where I can get a "Terascoop", so I can complete the analogy.

[Justinba1010]

@360ownez Aww, I still love the G5 series.

[Justinba1010]

@360ownez The Powermac is still efficient because it was the BOMB of the day, I like them, I don't like the new ones.

[LindenGarcia1896]

hes also got, na,na,na,na and na...

[MeapMedia]

Imagine: the G6.

[Membrane556]

The first Intel Macs actually were a big step backwards from the G5 and it took until the later core 2 machines in 2007 for them to be significantly faster.

Performance per watt is an often sighted reason and IBM supposedly would not make a notebook G5 for Apple. But in retrospect the true reason might have been to free up R&D resources for the iphone project by moving the mac platform to something closer to commodity PC hardware.

[SuperGamez10]

I got G5 too :) but I have OS X Tiger, 10.4. Can I get it upgraded to maybe OS X Leopard?

[tomoszz]

@17fattys Uhm, a PowerPC processor can't run Google Crome

[weeblerbob]

because it has 2 processors

[17fattys]

thinking of buying a dual cpu G5 to replace my single core intel pc, i only really use itunes, chrome, macormedia, office and python etc. do you think a G5 can handle all this?