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I think I want a G5
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I wonder how much the G5's case has to do with the value. Since the current top dog Mac Pro still uses practically the same case design it has that sort of appeal.
I can't wait to the day that the G5 becomes practically the same sort of bargain basement pricing as the G4s. Then their ridiculous reliability rating won't be so bad when you can buy part mule machines for $50.
eBay is getting there but the weight of the machines will never allow that and people on Craigslist (in my area) seem to overvalue them by 2-3x eBay prices.
I can't wait to the day that the G5 becomes practically the same sort of bargain basement pricing as the G4s. Then their ridiculous reliability rating won't be so bad when you can buy part mule machines for $50.
eBay is getting there but the weight of the machines will never allow that and people on Craigslist (in my area) seem to overvalue them by 2-3x eBay prices.
I don't want seem harsh.
You could still buy a G5 case and put a mini inside
*jokingly*
About 2000-2100. I found this out simply by googling "G5 2.3GHz geekbench". Please explain to me how you can turn your Mac on and post on a forum but not know how to use google?
There is a giant internet of info out there. You really don't need us for this stuff.
No because the lack of self reliance never stops. It's just tough love man. I respect them for having an interest in older Macs but one would think that would come with a certain level of effort for learning.
There are hundreds of thousands of possible legitimate questions that would be 100% valid and worth asking. None of those are really ever being asked. It's all stuff that there is already a wealth of information on.
Not only is it super easy to search the internet but there are also a heck of a lot more answers waiting out there already than we could ever give anyone in one thread on one forum.
Actually... the Mac Pro looks like a G5, given that the G5 case design predates the Mac Pro by four years.
Yeah. I just bought a Quad G5 for $150, no HDD I really would like or power cord... I finally got everything (power cord, HDD, corrected jumper settings to SATA/150, realized it was panicing on a Tiger Install because it needs 10.4.3 or later, so I got Leopard and it finally worked....)..... and it shuts down because it overheats under load. I can only run it reliably under "Power Saving Mode" (low settings), which makes it run at literally half speed. Even disabling 2 of the cores doesn't fix the issue.
Probably a DC 2.3.
10.5.8
Yes, if you remove the G5 motherboard, CPUs, video card and optical drive and replace them with Mac Pro Innards. Or make a Hackintosh. Or if you run Virtual PC on your G5, then run PearPC to emulate a Mac on your VPC.
(No)
But it's not necessary. I'm sure the he could manage to do a Google search without any help.
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Surprised you smart @sses haven't given me that yet. You're right guys, I can google everything and get pretty decent answers, sometimes I can't though. Regarding the geek bench question, I posted a question on a thread that is already made and I just wanted to add another post. Is it that harmful, I think some of us are forgetting what a "discussion forum" means, not just a website of FAQ's. Again, my apologies, it could've have been found elsewhere on the internet.
Not as are as graphics performance goes (depending on what graphics card the Power Mac has of course.)
They scream past the Dual G5s, yeah. The Quad would give it a run for its money... and destroy it in graphics intensive applications with a decent card, esp. a Quadro. Everything seems to be optimized for Intel these days, honestly. And it doesn't hurt that the Intel CPUs have loads of cache, and on-board memory controllers.
Still, a dual G5 (even a quad) will be less expensive than an Air... and infinitely more expandable.
Sigh
Honestly I wouldn't waste the money. I was the biggest G5 fanboy around and my G5 2.5 was the highest performing G5 2.5 in Geekbench's list yet sadly the machine is now defunct and sitting about 100 miles north of me at a friends computer lab - he was going to try and make it work again but it took a power hit when a transformer blew on the pole near me and it was really brittle after that and eventually just wouldn't boot anymore.
I'm running a Corei7 iMac and the only area where the G5 had an advantage was the I/O (direct SATA for the drives). I miss it but I don't miss the headaches (the coolant leak that happened about 1.5 years into owning it wasn't much fun and the stain in our hardwood floors wasn't fun either).
Honestly I wouldn't waste the money. I was the biggest G5 fanboy around and my G5 2.5 was the highest performing G5 2.5 in Geekbench's list yet sadly the machine is now defunct and sitting about 100 miles north of me at a friends computer lab - he was going to try and make it work again but it took a power hit when a transformer blew on the pole near me and it was really brittle after that and eventually just wouldn't boot anymore.
I'm running a Corei7 iMac and the only area where the G5 had an advantage was the I/O (direct SATA for the drives). I miss it but I don't miss the headaches (the coolant leak that happened about 1.5 years into owning it wasn't much fun and the stain in our hardwood floors wasn't fun either).