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

[vision63]

Stupid me is really interested in the fertilizer and seed corn at the farm supply. That sounds like fun.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

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 sold mine WAY before its value could sink to that level.

[Grateful11]

vision63 wrote:
Stupid me is really interested in the fertilizer and seed corn at the farm supply. That sounds like fun.

Well there's 1300 lbs. of fertilizer and 3 bags of corn seed up there in the shed ready to go if it ever dries
out enough for them to get it planted. Even though corn prices are way down she paid $245/bag for corn.
That's enough to do about 8 acres. Now they're saying we may get 3 more inches this week.

Come on over and you can help ;-)

[vision63]

Grateful11 wrote:
[quote=vision63]
Stupid me is really interested in the fertilizer and seed corn at the farm supply. That sounds like fun.

Well there's 1300 lbs. of fertilizer and 3 bags of corn seed up there in the shed ready to go if it ever dries
out enough for them to get it planted. Even though corn prices are way down she paid $245/bag for corn.
That's enough to do about 8 acres. Now they're saying we may get 3 more inches this week.

Come on over and you can help ;-)
I would love that. But I'd expect some good grub.

[artie67]

I donate computers to a friend that her cats use the towers for toilets. So, G4 Mirror door has black screen, then the $90 G5Dual has a black screen and smells even better.
Gutted the G5 and recycled the big parts as I didn't know if they were any good. Off to LEM for the rest.
As for the case, it will become a subwoofer. Small drivers like Tang Bang should be interesting.
You should check for lint etc. The G5's were the Dyson of vacuums at collecting carpet lint. I cleaned mine with a large grounded dust collector and low level compressed air from my spray unit. Looked good until I took it apart and the power supply had a fist full of carpet lint in it.
Have fun with it, you can still get your money back on the parts.

[gabester]

Isn't the 2.3Ghz G5 dually liquid cooled and dual core?
Ah, MacTracker tells me it was just the 2.7Ghz of this model that was liquid cooled.

Nevertheless, with 4.5GB RAM that is a very nice find for a file server, possibly a DNLA host or some such function...

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Grateful11 wrote:
[quote=vision63]
Stupid me is really interested in the fertilizer and seed corn at the farm supply. That sounds like fun.

Well there's 1300 lbs. of fertilizer and 3 bags of corn seed up there in the shed ready to go if it ever dries out enough for them to get it planted.
The G5 could definitely help out with that.

[Catzilla]

Nice find! I'll have to start going to yard sales again

[mrlynn]

Well, I wouldn't junk it, or turn it into a cat box.

A machine like that would be perfectly capable of running all the applications you need for a small business (or even a good-sized business), not to mention non-profit and charity organizations, which are usually strapped for money. If you don't have use for it, and you're not a packrat like some of us, donate it.

Besides, those are really cool-looking computers.

/Mr Lynn

[mrbigstuff]

donate, tax write-off.