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Our yard sale find Sat. morning, it's big and a it's a Mac, something we just don't see around here at yard sales - Grateful11 - 04-28-2014
My wife and I were headed for the local farm supply for fertilizer and seed corn Sat. morning at about
9am. We turned the corner in our little nearby town and there sat a Mac tower on a table at a yard
sale, my wife saw it first and we just had to check it out. A local business was moving and had
recently upgraded to iMacs. The tower looked great, I was hoping a Mac Pro but it was a G5 2.3Ghz
Dual Processor so I knew it was one of the later models. A $60 sticky note was lying on the ground.
The guy came out and I was asking about it and he said let me call my son he took care of all the
computers, he said it ran fine. It had a power cord, white translucent keyboard and mouse. He said if
you offer Dad $40 I think he'll take it, Well for $40 we couldn't pass it up. Fired it up later Sat. works
great, sounds like a hair dryer with both of those fans running but not a real slouch either, it's quick
snappy. It's clean as a whistle inside and it looks like they pulled the original HD and replaced with a
120Gb and has 4.5Gb of RAM. It only has a few very minor scratches on one side. Should we leave it
at 10.4 or try push it up to 10.5? No Airport Card included.
Now what to do with it, boat anchor, winter time heater or try and use it ;-)
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_2.3_dp.html
Re: Our yard sale find Sat. morning, it's big and a it's a Mac, something we just don't see around here at yard sales - rgG - 04-28-2014
I love 10.4, but the only problem is finding a browser that will play nice with certain websites. If you are not going to use it for surfing, I would definitely leave it on Tiger.
Re: Our yard sale find Sat. morning, it's big and a it's a Mac, something we just don't see around here at yard sales - Will Collier - 04-28-2014
I had one of those suckers (I think mine was a Dual 1.8GHz) in the early '00's. It'll double very nicely as a space heater.
Re: Our yard sale find Sat. morning, it's big and a it's a Mac, something we just don't see around here at yard sales - jdc - 04-28-2014
I think you could melt it down and sell the aluminum for $80, and double your "investment"
miley-laughing001:I had the "fast" Dual 2.0 G5 like that -- replaced it with a 2.4 Core2Duo iMac and it made the G5 seem like it was standing still...
Re: Our yard sale find Sat. morning, it's big and a it's a Mac, something we just don't see around here at yard sales - modelamac - 04-28-2014
It will handle Lion (10.5) nicely. My dual G4 did. Lion should get you into the useful browser category.
Re: Our yard sale find Sat. morning, it's big and a it's a Mac, something we just don't see around here at yard sales - N-OS X-tasy! - 04-28-2014
Will Collier wrote:
I had one of those suckers (I think mine was a Dual 1.8GHz) in the early '00's. It'll double very nicely as a space heater.
+1.
Re: Our yard sale find Sat. morning, it's big and a it's a Mac, something we just don't see around here at yard sales - rz - 04-28-2014
It was a good machine in its prime, but I wouldn't want to deal with it now. I sold my dual 2.0 when I upgraded to an Early 2008 Mac Pro, which I still have. I had no problem selling it for $500, which at the time was about $150-200 under the other asking prices on CL. Listed and sold same day.
Re: Our yard sale find Sat. morning, it's big and a it's a Mac, something we just don't see around here at yard sales - deckeda - 04-28-2014
modelamac wrote:
It will handle Lion (10.5) nicely. My dual G4 did. Lion should get you into the useful browser category.
I think you meant "Leopard."
Re: Our yard sale find Sat. morning, it's big and a it's a Mac, something we just don't see around here at yard sales - deckeda - 04-28-2014
rz wrote:
It was a good machine in its prime, but I wouldn't want to deal with it now. I sold my dual 2.0 when I upgraded to an Early 2008 Mac Pro, which I still have. I had no problem selling it for $500, which at the time was about $150-200 under the other asking prices on CL. Listed and sold same day.
I bought the Dual 2.0 new ($3K) -- back when I was insane and employed. Mine sold for about $750 in late '07. Bought a 1.86Ghz C2D mini, which was faster.
Re: Our yard sale find Sat. morning, it's big and a it's a Mac, something we just don't see around here at yard sales - Speedy - 04-28-2014
Great find! I have that same configuration, except for hard drive size, running 24/7. It works great! Go to Leopard.