New minis start at $600. Used ones are even less.
You can also get a fully decked out Raspberry Pi for $120!
Now, if I had spare time on my hands, that's the thing I would get to waste it all!
New minis start at $600. Used ones are even less.
With the PowerPC Macs this often tends to be a workaround. Either a specific app for the job (Mactubes, Fluid) or using outdated plugins. The latest version of Flash for PowerPC is 10.x something. There's a hack to fool websites into thinking you are using Flash 11, but it's still the same earlier version.
The guy wants $80 plus the shipping, all I want is something to watch Youtube, facebook, etc. I do not want any gaming at all, I just need a simple browser
Windows is now very secure thanks to Windows 7 and Windows 8. Don't do anything questionable and download files from a known source (which you should do with any OS) and you'll be just fine. I've been using Windows for years and have yet to download a Virus.
The guy wants $80 plus the shipping, all I want is something to watch Youtube, facebook, etc. I do not want any gaming at all, I just need a simple browser
While $80 seems a steal for such a machine, you need to understand what you'd be getting yourself into with PPC Macs.
My boss must have gotten very, very incredibly lucky.
My work Mac is a 1.8Ghz G5 (single processor) with 4GB ram. It's been on continuously since he bought it in February 2005 and the only thing on it that's ever failed was a ram stick in the first year. It gets left running 24/7 (even on weekends and holidays) with sleep disabled and processor at full and I have never had a hardware issue with it.
What do you mean?
I meant that there will probably be issues with it -- especially if it has an LCS.
Well, I'm very new to this forum but I know alot about computers. I have recently build a gaming pc that Ive been mainly using for browsing the net instead of gaming. So I decided to switch to a mac. In my opinion most new Macs are very overpriced and I dont need anything they offer in terms of performance. So I've narrowed it down to getting a G5 and selling my gamer. The one that Im looking at is this http://support.apple.com/kb/sp96 specifically the M9032LL/A, I'm planning to upgrade the Hard drives to an ssd and a 1tb WD Black Caviar, the ram to 4gb and adding some fans for airflow. But not knowing how I proceed on that since I know 0 things about soft ware or even what hard ware to get(in terms for mac, since Ive been working on pcs for quite a while). I think a new copy of OSX will be needed, but being so noob at this I dont know anything at all.
Thank you
I guess it depends on where you live - $80 here (in the UK) seems a pretty decent price - elsewhere, perhaps not. I had forgotten potentially how far a package might need to travel in the US!Shipping that hunk of machine will add a lot to the price. $80 is average. You can find the late 2005 models around $150 easily enough.
$80 isn't really a steal of the earliest ones, especially once you add shipping. I had a G5 a long time ago. I had an NEC display from that era too. Today either would be basically worthless. There's no way of knowing the exact condition of its internals, and repairs are expensive. As I mentioned shipping can tack on a lot due to its weight.
I guess it depends on where you live - $80 here (in the UK) seems a pretty decent price - elsewhere, perhaps not. I had forgotten potentially how far a package might need to travel in the US!