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PowerMac's Poll - Do you still own one

Do you own a Power Mac G5 that is unmodified and fully working?

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simie

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Here is a Poll to see who own a PowerPC that is fully working and unmodified. I want to get an idea of how many working PowerMacs there are out there.
 
It may be nice to collect serial numbers so everyone can see what PowerMacs users have that are is still working. If you sell your PowerPC we may see the serial number on here more than once. I will post mine here.
 
LOL I can only choose two? I own more than two :D

Also, Where's the love for the aircooled dual core A1117s vs just the LCS quad :)
 
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I am very surprised that no one as yet as told us that they own a Powermac 2.7Ghz.
 
Ich besitze ein 2005er IBook G4 12 Zoll.
Die einzige Maßnahme bestand darin, es zu bereinigen, den Arbeitsspeicher (jetzt 1,5 GB) zu aktualisieren und Tiger und Sorbet Leopard zu installieren.
Läuft stabil und gut. Auch der Akku hat noch genug Power für 2 Stunden Laufzeit.

Ich habe es bei E-Bay für 5 € zzgl. Versand gekauft.
 
Ich besitze ein 2005er IBook G4 12 Zoll.
Die einzige Maßnahme bestand darin, es zu bereinigen, den Arbeitsspeicher (jetzt 1,5 GB) zu aktualisieren und Tiger und Sorbet Leopard zu installieren.
Läuft stabil und gut. Auch der Akku hat noch genug Power für 2 Stunden Laufzeit.

Ich habe es bei E-Bay für 5 € zzgl. Versand gekauft.

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I own a 2005 IBook G4 12 inch.
The only measure was to clean it up, upgrade the RAM (now 1,5 GB) and install Tiger and Sorbet Leopard.
Runs stably and well. The battery also still has enough power for 2 hours of running time.

I bought it on E-Bay for €5 plus shipping.
 
simie said:
Here is a Poll to see who own a PowerPC that is fully working and unmodified. I want to get an idea of how many working PowerMacs there are out there.
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Does “unmodified” mean “still runs on the original spinner HDD, on exactly the RAM sticks with which it came shipped, and on the original power supply/brick/puck?”

Also, I’m not really sure what the benefit of this poll is, whose emphasis seems a bit lop-sided (and if so, also incomplete) toward G5 models. The granularity of the G5 choices, whilst incomplete, far outweigh the G4 and G3 options.

As data collection goes: “garbage in/garbage out.”

EDIT TO ADD: The thread title and the poll are addressing two different questions which run at partial odds against each other. Perhaps the poll’s scope should be reflected in the thread’s title. Even so, the poll would be a lot more useful in its structure if it were comprehensive whilst eliminating the superfluousness of polling for G3 and G4 system. And if the poll is concerned principally with G5s, iMac G5s would need to be broken out into their individual models, as well.
 
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I have a single processor dual core G5 that has been upgraded with a 2.5Ghz card from a quad. Only the one machine, but I have two extra 2.3Ghz dual cores and one extra 2.5Ghz dual core. I also have 2 2.7Ghz CPU cards that have been leaked all over by the liquid cooling system. I cleaned them up, but I sold the rest of the machine that they were included in and no longer have any method of testing them.
 
The way I interpreted this poll (per the name of the poll and post #1) was that op wanted to know how many powermacs (g3 g4 g5) are in circulation here at MR with a focus on Powermac G5 models. If the point is powermac data, the xserve, cMP and winbox are interesting additions. It doesn't skew the powermac data necessarily but is outside of ops stated focuses.

More than anything, the either/or choices of g3 & g4 (NO, I own a g3/g4) certainly will impact the broader powermac data. For example, I own a g3, four g4s and two g5 powermacs as Im sure many here do as well. Either/or wording forces us to choose one over the other vs including all equally in the poll. @simie , removing the "No" from the powermac g3 & g4 options will fix that and provide you a cleaner picture of powermac ownership at MacRumors.

Also, I see you increased the choice options to 6, but even that is low for some of us. I can choose 7 (G3, G4, dual 2 ghz G5, dual core G5, windows box, cMP, dead G4). Updating your options to 10 I think is a nice round number for most folks per your existing choices.

Fun poll though :) I always like to see what our computer ownership looks like.
 
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A full accounting: 1x Beige 233MHz G3, 2x G3 Pismos, 2x 600MHz G3 iBooks, 2x 450MHz G4 Cubes, 1x 1GHZ G4 iMac 15", 1x 1.25GHz G4 MDD, 1x 1.33GHz G4 PB 17", 2x 1.67GHz G4 PB DLSD (17", 15"), 3x 1.5GHz G4 PB (17", 15" & 17" w. bad display); 1x 7200/120MHZ 601 & 1x 7600/132MHz 604 to be resurrected...
All I've done is max out the memory. All are running the original hard drives; all the working ones are regularly exercised (most of them daily!). Because I love the OS X 10.4.x & 10.5.x environment....though the beige PM & 1 Pismo run OS 9.2 as NFS & AFP file servers for some of my old UNIX workstations (NeXT, Sun & SGI).
 
simie said:
I am interested in how many folk own dual 2.5 Power Mac alongside myself
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- 2.5Ghz Quad Core PowerMac G5, 16GB ram - no hard drives. Not used as it was replaced by a MacPro.

- 2.3Ghz Dual Core PowerMac G5, 6GB ram, 2x 1TB HDDs. Not used.

- 2.3Ghz Dual Core PowerMac G5, no ram, no ramp card, no BT card. Damaged case, used for parts for the working 2.3.

- 2.7Ghz Dual Processor PowerMac G5, 4GB ram, 1TB HDD. Not used, has cooling system issues but will idle stable.

All of the above are 'retired'. I intend at some point to set them back up for graphic design using Adobe CS and QuarkXPress 8.5. Just waiting for my kids to finally get out of school and move out so they can come inside.

Infrequent use: 17" 1.0Ghz PowerMac G4 with 2GB ram and 128GB SSD. Has an 802.11n PC card.

Permanent use: 500mhz PowerMac G4, 768mb ram, SATA PCI card, 2 Gigabit NICs, 1 256GB boot drive (laptop SATA HDD), 1 6TB SATA HDD, no display card. This Mac is used as a server and controlled via screen sharing.

I have plenty of other PowerPC Macs and parts not being used in the garage.
 
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Have a dual-core (Late 2005) 2.3 I got for free with a cheap Kijiji 20” Apple Cinema Display many years back: the listing didn’t have any details apart from a vague photo so I assumed it was going to be a 1.8 or something, but I guess I lucked out! Runs perfectly fine, even found some old ECC server RAM to get it to a solid 8 GB.

Also have a Blue & White G3 I saved from my university’s e-waste and a graphite G4 Digital Audio I saved from the e-waste back in high school, both of which work great.

My only dead PowerMac is a dual-1.25 MDD I *also* saved from the university e-waste that’s missing a power supply. This weekend I’ve been rigging up one of those ATX-MDD adapters to see if it actually still works or whether the PSU failure fried anything important. Fingers crossed!
 
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Have a dual 2.3 I got for free with a cheap Kijiji 20” Apple Cinema Display many years back: the listing didn’t have any details apart from a vague photo so I assumed it was going to be a 1.8 or something, but I guess I lucked out! Runs perfectly fine, even found some old ECC server RAM to get it to a solid 8 GB.

Also have a Blue & White G3 I saved from my university’s e-waste and a graphite G4 Digital Audio I saved from the e-waste back in high school, both of which work great.

My only dead PowerMac is a dual-1.25 MDD I *also* saved from the university e-waste that’s missing a power supply. This weekend I’ve been rigging up one of those ATX-MDD adapters to see if it actually still works or whether the PSU failure fried anything important. Fingers crossed!
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What a nice collection of Macs
 
simie said:
What a nice collection of Macs
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Thanks! I’ve lucked out being a vintage Apple nerd and working in a lot of e-recycling adjacent areas. In high school I worked at a computer repair place that doubled as an e-waste depot, and since I was paid under the table my boss let me save a ton of stuff from the trash. Got a clamshell iBook, a Nintendo Virtual Boy, a Color Classic, a couple other compact Macs… there were a lot of shady labour practices at that place, but the vintage tech buffet (and wonderful co-workers) made it worthwhile 🙂

Now I work at a university and have had similarly good luck with old professors retiring/departments renovating and clearing out decades of old Apple gear.
 
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I still own (and occasionally play on) a 12” 1.5 GHz G4 PowerBook. It was the best 12” PowerBook at the time, G5 were out but not in a 12” laptop form factor.
 
ahurst said:
Thanks! I’ve lucked out being a vintage Apple nerd and working in a lot of e-recycling adjacent areas. In high school I worked at a computer repair place that doubled as an e-waste depot, and since I was paid under the table my boss let me save a ton of stuff from the trash. Got a clamshell iBook, a Nintendo Virtual Boy, a Color Classic, a couple other compact Macs… there were a lot of shady labour practices at that place, but the vintage tech buffet (and wonderful co-workers) made it worthwhile 🙂

Now I work at a university and have had similarly good luck with old professors retiring/departments renovating and clearing out decades of old Apple gear.
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Post some pics of your fabulous collection.
 
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