Hi guys,
I think it's pretty ridiculous to pay $150-200 for a several years old operating system disc, and I would love to upgrade my Power Mac G5 (dual 2.0ghz) to the latest that it can possibly run, mostly for software compatibility reasons.
I'm not trying to scrape by for free necessarily, but I also don't think it's fair to pay a crazy price because Apple has stopped printing Leopard discs.
Can anyone help?? Should I just sell this Power Mac G5 tower and be done with it? I thought it'd be a good way to get into Mac for not a lot of money... I'm a pretty firm Windows guy and if I were to make the change to new Macs, I'd have to have a lot of good experience playing around with it and getting comfortable with it first. My Windows desktop is actually 4 years old, but still blows the doors off of what most people have (It's an HP MediaPC with an Intel QuadCore 2.4ghz), and this Mac technically speaking should be powerful, but the software support seems to be drying up....
Hoping for some helpful ideas
I think it's pretty ridiculous to pay $150-200 for a several years old operating system disc, and I would love to upgrade my Power Mac G5 (dual 2.0ghz) to the latest that it can possibly run, mostly for software compatibility reasons.
I'm not trying to scrape by for free necessarily, but I also don't think it's fair to pay a crazy price because Apple has stopped printing Leopard discs.
Can anyone help?? Should I just sell this Power Mac G5 tower and be done with it? I thought it'd be a good way to get into Mac for not a lot of money... I'm a pretty firm Windows guy and if I were to make the change to new Macs, I'd have to have a lot of good experience playing around with it and getting comfortable with it first. My Windows desktop is actually 4 years old, but still blows the doors off of what most people have (It's an HP MediaPC with an Intel QuadCore 2.4ghz), and this Mac technically speaking should be powerful, but the software support seems to be drying up....
Hoping for some helpful ideas