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Jun 11, 2021 17:48:56   #
Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis
 
The old G5 Power Mac's were so heavy and cost so much, other than being one hell of a good looking case.
I bought my G5 a few months after it was discontinued , it had been setting on a shelf at CompUSA for a good while priced at $999.00. I ask for the manager and made him an offer of $700.00 after he made a few phone calls we completed the deal.
The only reason I replaced it was it would not run CS6, which I had already purchased.
I am getting to take it to the recycling center since it wouldn't accept my password one morning and I couldn't find my OS disc and didn't want to spend money on it.
I had replaced it with a 21" iMac and was only using it for documents and web browsing.
I decided to take a few shot of the innards

The mother/main board
The mother/main board...
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The power supply a whole 300 watts
The power supply a whole 300 watts...
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The heat sinks
The heat sinks...
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The processors ( and don't ask why the yard stick)
The processors ( and don't ask why the yard stick)...
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And the fans all seven of them
And the fans all seven of them...
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Jun 11, 2021 17:58:44   #
rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona
 
Macs are built with quality.
--Bob
Manglesphoto wrote:
The old G5 Power Mac's were so heavy and cost so much, other than being one hell of a good looking case.
I bought my G5 a few months after it was discontinued , it had been setting on a shelf at CompUSA for a good while priced at $999.00. I ask for the manager and made him an offer of $700.00 after he made a few phone calls we completed the deal.
The only reason I replaced it was it would not run CS6, which I had already purchased.
I am getting to take it to the recycling center since it wouldn't accept my password one morning and I couldn't find my OS disc and didn't want to spend money on it.
I had replaced it with a 21" iMac and was only using it for documents and web browsing.
I decided to take a few shot of the innards
The old G5 Power Mac's were so heavy and cost so m... (show quote)

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Jun 11, 2021 20:10:59   #
Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis
 
rmalarz wrote:
Macs are built with quality.
--Bob


They sure are this one weighed in at 37#

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Jun 12, 2021 06:55:28   #
ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA
 
Wow - all that "stuff" is probably now replaced by something the size of a quarter! With all those fans it must have been noisy. My M1 Mac is so quiet, fast and no heat unless I run a CPU intensive program.

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Jun 12, 2021 07:14:49   #
Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis
 
ecobin wrote:
Wow - all that "stuff" is probably now replaced by something the size of a quarter! With all those fans it must have been noisy. My M1 Mac is so quiet, fast and no heat unless I run a CPU intensive program.


Actually it was very quiet and never ran hot, I had a monitoring program that had alarms for high temp.on it.
I use a 27" iMac 5k retina,2017 now, and will as long as possible

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Jun 12, 2021 08:53:47   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Interesting!

If you want to be "artistic," you can remove several bits and pieces and combine them into a framed wall hanging. I have lots of old computer parts in my garage, and I plan to do something with them - some day.

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Jun 12, 2021 09:46:20   #
The Saint KK4GO Loc: Florida
 
Manglesphoto wrote:
The old G5 Power Mac's were so heavy and cost so much, other than being one hell of a good looking case.
I bought my G5 a few months after it was discontinued , it had been setting on a shelf at CompUSA for a good while priced at $999.00. I ask for the manager and made him an offer of $700.00 after he made a few phone calls we completed the deal.
The only reason I replaced it was it would not run CS6, which I had already purchased.
I am getting to take it to the recycling center since it wouldn't accept my password one morning and I couldn't find my OS disc and didn't want to spend money on it.
I had replaced it with a 21" iMac and was only using it for documents and web browsing.
I decided to take a few shot of the innards
The old G5 Power Mac's were so heavy and cost so m... (show quote)


I still have mine. Bought it new for 2K. Still works flawlessly. Kudos to Apple.

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Jun 12, 2021 12:24:59   #
Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Interesting!

If you want to be "artistic," you can remove several bits and pieces and combine them into a framed wall hanging. I have lots of old computer parts in my garage, and I plan to do something with them - some day.


I'll leave that to you Jerry, for me it's just something to dust.

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Jun 12, 2021 16:21:02   #
SteveFranz Loc: Durham, NC
 
Back when I had my wet darkroom, I used a computer fan to build a film dryer. Worked pretty good.

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