worth it

man I feel dumb, so thanks for the advise in advance and sorry for asking some stupid questions in the process.


have the ability to pickup a 1.6ghz powermac G5 with no drives or ram for $150. is it worth doing?

Definitely. $60 on a hard drive and $50 on memory and you're away.

not even

4 1gb sticks of pc2700 ram - sitting on my desk. tested and good.
320gb sata hard drive - sitting on my desk. tested and good
16x ide dvd burner - sitting on me desk. tested and good



it nice to work in a repair shop and dell supplies you with all that stuff cuz they make total garbage that has to be thrown out all the time.



and thanks again guys

Almost makes me want to pick up an old Power Mac G5 just for fun. They're cool machines - awesome case.

bio25053 said:

man I feel dumb, so thanks for the advise in advance and sorry for asking some stupid questions in the process.


have the ability to pickup a 1.6ghz powermac G5 with no drives or ram for $150. is it worth doing?

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If you didn't already have some "extra" ram, hard drive, and DVD drive...I would say that this was a slightly borderline deal.

But since you have the parts you need to make this G5 fully operational...I would definitely say go for it!

It will definitely be faster than any other Macintosh computer you can buy for $150 bucks.

Congrats on a great purchase opportunity!

- Nick

got the g5 up and running.

anyone got some suggestions on benchmark suites to run it against it's competitor?

What is the competitor you plan on comparing it to?

athlon 64 2800+ with 2gb (used to be 1) and os X on it.

the "PC" seems to smash it on boot up times and disk utilites, but the G5 seems to be a bit quicker with video encoding.


I just want to be sure that what I'm seeing is actually the case. if it is then this G5 is going to be used for other things besides in the shop. I'm liking the mac's to do my AV and spyware sweeps along with data backups... kinda imune to most of the reasons for needing that work done in the first place