G5 Good Deal?

[Yaris]

I have been thinking again about a G5 for all around use. I'm not much of a power user, so a G5 wouldn't be too slow. I occasionally look at eBay and I just stumbled across this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-PowerMac-...le_Desktops?hash=item5190025ce7#ht_3124wt_941

I know there are some scuffs but for a working machine that doesn't look like too bad of a price. What do you think?

 

[philipt42]

Go for it!
A pretty good deal there.

 

[disconap]

Definitely a good price; you can throw in another couple gigs of RAM for pretty darned cheap, throw Leopard retail on it, and you'll have a solid machine.

 

[Eidorian]

The $429 refurbished Mac mini that was on the Apple Store would eat it for breakfast.

 

[300D]

The $429 refurbished Mac mini that was on the Apple Store would eat it for breakfast.

Then the G5 would swallow it whole and still have room for 3 PCI-E cards, two full size hard drives, 14GB more ram and then rape the mini's "graphics card" when its done.

 

[jedijoe]

ditto the intel mac mini. unless you need > 4GB of memory, or RAID disk setup, the newer Mac Minis will be faster. (Core2Duo Minis). Sold my 2.3Ghz G5, slower and stuck on leopard.