Ready to buy Power Mac G5

[ironjaw]

Hi, I'm considering buying a Power Mac G5 for £200 this sunday from a friend. Is it a good buy?

1.6GHz Single Processor Model, 80GB Hard disk, 1.25GB RAM, SuperDrive, FW800

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Its without Monitor, KB and Mouse

 

[tersono]

Provided it's in good nick, that sounds like a very good price.

 

[ironjaw]

Well yes it is I've always loved the design. I think its a good price.

 

[Genghis Khan]

if you're buying it for the design, go ahead

but if you want biggest bang for your buck, the intel mini's are better

 

[KingYaba]

I would love to have an old G5 like that to play around with. $400 sounds like a good deal.

 

[iMpathetic]

That is a damn fine deal!

 

[ironjaw]

Well okay, I went for it and bought both of them. Great design. I just fell in love with them.

What surprised me the most was the interior design. Its really amazing from the inside. It's only 1.6Ghz but I can up the Hard drive (its SATA) and RAM up to 4GB so its no biggy.

It's a solid machine even though its from 2003 and PPC

 

[Genghis Khan]

congrats on the new PowerMac...but don't expect it to be faster than any intel machine with 2GB RAM or more

 

[skyton]

congrats
really a g5 will be great for all but the most hard going tasks