Well, I've been looking for one for a long time and now I've finally found one at a good price (£25).
I'm just blown away by how fast this system feels - apart from hard number crunching, it seems on a parallel with my Dual G5 - that double L3 cache really makes a difference.
It feels very comfortable on the web and amazingly it uses less CPU on Youtube with Webkit than my Core Duo iMac does in Firefox.
It's not as noisy as anticipated either - slightly quieter than my 933 Quicksilver I'd say.
It came with 2 hdds but I've removed one as I want to spare the power supply any excessive effort…but maybe that's just my paranoia
It was originally running Panther and the previous owners appeared to be using it for graphic design and running a business in 2009 - an interesting parallel, as at that time I was designing too on a Dual 1.25 MDD. As ever, no attempt at data security on the seller's part....all safely eradicated now under a new Leopard install.
I'm just blown away by how fast this system feels - apart from hard number crunching, it seems on a parallel with my Dual G5 - that double L3 cache really makes a difference.
It feels very comfortable on the web and amazingly it uses less CPU on Youtube with Webkit than my Core Duo iMac does in Firefox.
It's not as noisy as anticipated either - slightly quieter than my 933 Quicksilver I'd say.
It came with 2 hdds but I've removed one as I want to spare the power supply any excessive effort…but maybe that's just my paranoia
It was originally running Panther and the previous owners appeared to be using it for graphic design and running a business in 2009 - an interesting parallel, as at that time I was designing too on a Dual 1.25 MDD. As ever, no attempt at data security on the seller's part....all safely eradicated now under a new Leopard install.