No I still love G5 and still want to here about them.I'm planning on getting one identical to my last again,maybe this year too.
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No I still love G5 and still want to here about them.I'm planning on getting one identical to my last again,maybe this year too.
@Cassie:
So you own an eMac? Wow! I completely forgot they existed... So how comes that you are so in love with PPCs, being 16 and also having Dell computers?
Just being curious, because no PPCs were sold anymore from 2006 on. So you were 12 or 13 back then.
Tell me your story...
groovebuster
So you own an eMac? Wow! I completely forgot they existed... So how comes that you are so in love with PPCs, being 16 and also having Dell computers?
Just being curious, because no PPCs were sold anymore from 2006 on. So you were 12 or 13 back then.
Tell me your story...
groovebuster
PPC ftw. I've only owned intel machines, but back when I used macs for school, they were way better then the Pentium machines
PPC is still useful, I still use my PowerBook and it's fine, The G3s are at the end of their life span and they are useless unless they are fully upgraded. (I.E 1GB RAM)
The G4s are still fine, same goes for the G5. IMO the G4 era designs are the best Macs aesthetic wise.
And just because you can't buy them anymore, doesn't mean you bought one when they were new. You can buy PPC Macs on Craigslist for dirt cheap (iMac G3s tend to go for $50, eMacs - $100)
My school in grade 5 used to have an iMac G3 lab, it was loud (crappy HDDs), and hot, but MAN were they cool.
The G4s are still fine, same goes for the G5. IMO the G4 era designs are the best Macs aesthetic wise.
And just because you can't buy them anymore, doesn't mean you bought one when they were new. You can buy PPC Macs on Craigslist for dirt cheap (iMac G3s tend to go for $50, eMacs - $100)
My school in grade 5 used to have an iMac G3 lab, it was loud (crappy HDDs), and hot, but MAN were they cool.
Not my main Mac these days, but I still love mine too. Dual 1.8, 4GB Ram, 1TB + 500GB HDs. Horrible for Flash and video editing, but works OK for most other tasks I throw at it. Incredibly stable, on 24/7 folding and file serving.
Nice,my old PowerMac g4 867Mhz will pretty soon become a server as it's all I have left of all my old stuff.
Great machine when it first came out. I can still remember Apple's claims on how it was the fastest desktop machine when it came out.
Ew, the white plastic iMacs (G5 and Intel) are the WORST in my book.
I guess it's a love thing, kind of similar to the way I cut my fingers to shreds fixing my new PowerMac G4 MDD and spent a straight 20 hours without sleep installing/uninstalling; os's, hdds, optical drives, power supplies, and memory until I got it working flawlessly. I love it, I really do. Each time I open ten applications and watch movies and run processes constantly without it so much as whining I just want to pick it up and hug it, but I'm sure something would knock loose with my luck
so this is what UNLIMITED P0VVA felt like in 2003...hmm
I notice I usually fall in love with older machines that I have to put back together. I really really adore my MacBook Pro but not as much as I LOVED my iMac G3 Blueberry and MDD.
Now I'm looking desperately for a PowerBook G4 to love
I guess it's a love thing, kind of similar to the way I cut my fingers to shreds fixing my new PowerMac G4 MDD and spent a straight 20 hours without sleep installing/uninstalling; os's, hdds, optical drives, power supplies, and memory until I got it working flawlessly. I love it, I really do. Each time I open ten applications and watch movies and run processes constantly without it so much as whining I just want to pick it up and hug it, but I'm sure something would knock loose with my luck
so this is what UNLIMITED P0VVA felt like in 2003...hmm
I notice I usually fall in love with older machines that I have to put back together. I really really adore my MacBook Pro but not as much as I LOVED my iMac G3 Blueberry and MDD.
Now I'm looking desperately for a PowerBook G4 to love
I've had my PowerMac G5 Single 1.8Ghz as my main computer since before I even joined these forums, I believe I got it all the way back in 2003. I was expecting it to last me throughout middle school and maybe one year of high school at the most, but I am now half way through my senior year and it's still going!
Upgrades really keep these things going! Although I'm still just on 1.25gb ram
The G5 case still remains the most solid computer case I have every seen.
Upgrades really keep these things going! Although I'm still just on 1.25gb ram
The G5 case still remains the most solid computer case I have every seen.
It WAS the fastest desktop machine when it came out and for some time after. Intel and AMD powered PC's from that era were/are slow as f*#k. When Apple announced the Intel switch, I about died thinking we were going to have that horrifying P4 POS chip in our Macs. Thank God they created the Core 2 processors.
Yeah it's great until the lines bust and leak coolant all over the bottom of the case
Smartasss^
XD
At any rate, the Mac Pro is toz much cooler than the PowerMac G5, even the slide-out main-board and the stacked cooling veins are about the coolest things ever in a machine.
Smartasss^
XD
At any rate, the Mac Pro is toz much cooler than the PowerMac G5, even the slide-out main-board and the stacked cooling veins are about the coolest things ever in a machine.
Yeah it's great until the lines bust and leak coolant all over the bottom of the case
And when is that supposed to happen? I have my Quad G5 since almost 4.5 years and never had the slightest problem with the cooling...
Yeah it's great until the lines bust and leak coolant all over the bottom of the case
At any rate, the Mac Pro is toz much cooler than the PowerMac G5, even the slide-out main-board and the stacked cooling veins are about the coolest things ever in a machine.
I agree. I have a PMac G5 2.5, which did have the coolant leak. It was old, and a reliable machine, but Apple took care of the problem by completely Rebuilding the whole thing for me for free.
I have been wishing, they would of given me the option to pay extra to just upgrade me to the base model MP, but oh well. This trusty work horse isn't going anywhere.
G5 Powermacs amaze me.
Best bargain out there right now.
I wouldn't touch anything below a 2.0 Dual Processor G5, though.
My single 1.8 even with eight gigs of ram was too slow. But it was pretty.
The Quads are fast but the PCIX Duals are surprisingly fast, too.
Best bargain out there right now.
I wouldn't touch anything below a 2.0 Dual Processor G5, though.
My single 1.8 even with eight gigs of ram was too slow. But it was pretty.
The Quads are fast but the PCIX Duals are surprisingly fast, too.
I love them too and am planning on purchasing a Dual 1.8 or Dual 2.0 soon to act as a backup machine and also to just leave rendering FCE4 and iDVD Projects leaving my MacBook free (Am also going to use it to replace my G4/450 to scan things and run iPhoto and iTunes constantly). Theyre truly beautiful machines
I love them too and am planning on purchasing a Dual 1.8 or Dual 2.0 soon to act as a backup machine and also to just leave rendering FCE4 and iDVD Projects leaving my MacBook free (Am also going to use it to replace my G4/450 to scan things and run iPhoto and iTunes constantly). Theyre truly beautiful machines
Ya they are good machines.Wouldn't mind another one as my main desktop.
All the DP 2.5, DP 2.7 and Quad 2.5s are
. But i'm not sure about the DC 2.0 and 2.3
All the DP 2.5, DP 2.7 and Quad 2.5s are
anything under 2.5Ghz is air cooled,