Well, thanks to the help of a friend I now have a Mac Pro on the way to me at a rather nice price. I’ve also ordered the extra RAM it needs to fit my needs. In the end it’ll be a quad core Xeon 2.66 GHz box with 3GB of RAM, 1x250GB and 4x320GB hard disks (two internal, two external for backups), and all my old peripherals.<\/p>\n
That said, I’m now selling my Power Mac G5. If any of you are interested, I’ll give you first crack at it. I’m asking US$1500, and it is as follows:<\/p>\n
Dual 2.0 GHz PowerMac G5 (PowerPC)
\n3.5GB RAM
\n2x 160GB Hard Disk
\nDVD Writer (SuperDrive)
\nAll Original Software (Yes, I can ensure that Classic is on it.)
\nOS X 10.4 (Legal, Licensed, Boxed Retail Copy which I had purchased separately)
\nAll original packaging, accessories, and cabling.
\nApple Mighty Mouse<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIt’s been real well cared for, hasn’t left the air conditioned \/ non-smoking room it’s been housed in since I got it, and hasn’t ever had any problems. All but 512MB of the RAM was purchased from Crucial and is under their lifetime warranty.<\/p>\n
I will ship it anywhere in the world, but please remember that the Power Mac G5s are mighty heavy. The case is beautiful, but it’s also a large hunk of solid aluminum.<\/p>\n
This machine makes for a great photo \/ video editing workstation and is probably a bit overpowered for normal desktop use. Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, all of those run great on it.<\/p>\n
Oh, and it will run OS X 10.5 which is slated to be released this year — buying this machine isn’t a dead end of any sort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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