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
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The power supply a whole 300 watts
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The heat sinks
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The processors ( and don't ask why the yard stick)
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And the fans all seven of them
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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... (
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rmalarz wrote:
Macs are built with quality.
--Bob
They sure are this one weighed in at 37#
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Back when I had my wet darkroom, I used a computer fan to build a film dryer. Worked pretty good.
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