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Should I buy this used G5...?

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greyfalco

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(2000 CDN...)

Powermac G5
Dual 2.0 GHz (2 PPC cpus)
4.5 GB Ram
160GB SATA Drive
extra 250GB Sata Drive
SuperDrive DL - Pioneer DVD +/- RW DVR 108, Double Layer 16X
Bluetooth - DLink USB Bluetooth
Modem (56K)
Dual Gigabit Ethernet (1000/100/10Mbps)
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE (128MB GDDR SDRAM)
Apple Keyboard
DVI to VGA Adapter
MacOS 10.4
Has 2 years full waranty left...
 
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Irish Dave

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greyfalco said:
(2000 CDN...)

Powermac G5
Dual 2.0 GHz (2 PPC cpus)
4.5 GB Ram
160GB SATA Drive
extra 250GB Sata Drive
SuperDrive DL - Pioneer DVD +/- RW DVR 108, Double Layer 16X
Bluetooth - DLink USB Bluetooth
Modem (56K)
Dual Gigabit Ethernet (1000/100/10Mbps)
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE (128MB GDDR SDRAM)
Apple Keyboard
DVI to VGA Adapter
MacOS 10.4
Has 2 years full waranty left...
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The G5 is still an awesome computer.

How much is he asking for it?

Greets from Ireland

Dave :)
 
bearbo

bearbo

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that's an awesome computer... but for 2000 CAD? aka 1700 USD? maybe not... you can get apple refurb stock for 1600... provided there's a lot memory, but still
 
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greyfalco

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bearbo said:
that's an awesome computer... but for 2000 CAD? aka 1700 USD? maybe not... you can get apple refurb stock for 1600... provided there's a lot memory, but still
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hmmmmm........ more opinons please? What is a good price for it?
 
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Irish Dave

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greyfalco said:
$2000 Canadian, I saw a refurb on the apple store for 1,899 CDN, but it only has half a gig of ram.
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Sorry, I thought that 2000 cdn meant $2000 Canadian dollars but wasn't sure.

The extra ram and the Applecare warranty with two years left would make it a good buy. Plus of course, the second hard drive etc. etc as a bonus. I would go for it. They really are a great computer. (I use a G5 with 4 Gb of ram as my main computer)

Regards

Dave :)
 
bearbo

bearbo

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greyfalco said:
hmmmmm........ more opinons please? What is a good price for it?
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can you verify the specs?

this is the only one as far as i know that has dual giga ethernet... and there is no option for 56K modem

if that's the model, and (how much are rams?) you need that rams, then i'd say go ahead... if it's earleir dual 2.0s... well, lower the price accordingly
 
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greyfalco

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bearbo said:
can you verify the specs?

this is the only one as far as i know that has dual giga ethernet... and there is no option for 56K modem

if that's the model, and (how much are rams?) you need that rams, then i'd say go ahead... if it's earleir dual 2.0s... well, lower the price accordingly
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it is the newer one. I could always blow an extra 2k into a Mac Pro...but that hurts hurts hurts...
 
L A R E !

L A R E !

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powermac g-5

i think for the price you should be getting more hard drive, but non the less the g-5 is awsome.
 
bearbo

bearbo

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:p it's just this morning i saw one on ebay selling something like that... it turns out it has a ethernet and 56k modem, and a PCI ethernet... now that wouldn't be good would it

(also, the latest model came out late 2005, which means it should have 3 yr of applecare instead of 2, no?)
 
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greyfalco

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Antares said:
That's a great computer but the price that he wants, isn't. I'd try to wheel him down to $1800 CDN. I'd also make sure that you're getting the final revision of the Powermac G5, not an earlier one (like someone else said).
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If there is 4.5 gigs of mem doesn't it mean it is for sure a newer one (the older ones only went up to max 4 gigs of ram...)?
 
leekohler

leekohler

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I have the last rev Dual-core 2 Ghz G5. I LOVE it. Everything mentioned in the specs seems like it would be the latest one, except the fact that it says "dual 2.0 Ghz (2 PPC CPUs)". If it's the last rev, it should be dual-core, not dual processor.
 
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bearbo

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leekohler said:
I have the last rev Dual-core 2 Ghz G5. I LOVE it. Everything mentioned in the specs seems like it would be the latest one, except the fact that it says "dual 2.0 Ghz (2 PPC CPUs)". If it's the last rev, it should be dual-core, not dual processor.
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even the fact it has 56k modem and only 2 yr of applecare left?
 
bearbo

bearbo

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leekohler said:
Well yeah, there is no 56k modem in mine, you're right. And there should be more than 2 years of Applecare left as well. I never get Applecare though, so I guess I wasn't paying attention to that.
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actually... the 2 yr of applecare makes sense... if it were purchased last yr around this time, and applecare extend to 3 yrs, not extend additional 3 yrs...

haha

(i abs. want one of those last revision powermac right now)
 
leekohler

leekohler

macrumors G5
Dec 22, 2004
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Chicago, Illinois
bearbo said:
actually... the 2 yr of applecare makes sense... if it were purchased last yr around this time, and applecare extend to 3 yrs, not extend additional 3 yrs...

haha

(i abs. want one of those last revision powermac right now)
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Haha! They're pretty great. I got mine in April/May and it blew me away.
 
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