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- 3.4 Ghz i7 MacBook Pro (2015), iPad Pro (2014), iPhone Xs Max. Apple TV 4K
That's it! I'm done!
With my Quad G5 PPC that is. It's been degrading for the last year or so and this week when I booted it up after it being shut down for 7 or 8 days (I was out of town) I noticed the CPU A temp was upwards of 170F at idle. I've had the CPUs scaled back for well over a year now since the machine would shut itself down otherwise. Surfing the web and using MetaX proved to much and the machine shut itself down at 210F. I took it apart, blew about a pound of dust out of it with my air compressor, cleaned it, replaced the MB battery and reassembled it. When it booted, CPU A was running at 180F right off the bat and it wouldn't pull an IP address from my Airport via either Ethernet or Wireless. The machine refuses to boot from a disc so I can't even run the hardware diagnostics test anymore. Done. Reading the Apple forums and searching the web it looks like it's not worth the money to fix since it's an old architecture and has passed it's prime. Ah well, 7 years wasn't bad for that machine I guess.
So, looks like I'll be getting a MacMini as a temp replacement with perhaps an i3 or i5 27 inch iMac to follow shortly after. Once my wife finishes school and starts working again later in the year I'll look at getting a MacPro to replace the G5 as my main desktop machine. At least I'll be able to run the newest software again!
With my Quad G5 PPC that is. It's been degrading for the last year or so and this week when I booted it up after it being shut down for 7 or 8 days (I was out of town) I noticed the CPU A temp was upwards of 170F at idle. I've had the CPUs scaled back for well over a year now since the machine would shut itself down otherwise. Surfing the web and using MetaX proved to much and the machine shut itself down at 210F. I took it apart, blew about a pound of dust out of it with my air compressor, cleaned it, replaced the MB battery and reassembled it. When it booted, CPU A was running at 180F right off the bat and it wouldn't pull an IP address from my Airport via either Ethernet or Wireless. The machine refuses to boot from a disc so I can't even run the hardware diagnostics test anymore. Done. Reading the Apple forums and searching the web it looks like it's not worth the money to fix since it's an old architecture and has passed it's prime. Ah well, 7 years wasn't bad for that machine I guess.
So, looks like I'll be getting a MacMini as a temp replacement with perhaps an i3 or i5 27 inch iMac to follow shortly after. Once my wife finishes school and starts working again later in the year I'll look at getting a MacPro to replace the G5 as my main desktop machine. At least I'll be able to run the newest software again!