Is this a good price for a G5 tower?
Hello all. I have a iMac on one floor. I was thinking about picking up a Mac mini for another part of the house. But, a quick check on Craig's list found a tempting G5.
So, it's a dual 2.3 gh 8 gb of ram and two 250 gb HDs G5 tower with OS 10 leopard, iLife, iWork, office, and cs4 creative suits installed.
He says it's in perfect condition and runs flawlessly. I would test it of course before buying.
He is asking $325 for it. Sounds like a to good to be true price. He said I can meet up tonight so I can test it out.
I don't know the running prices on used G5's. So is this a normal price?
Thanks guys!!
So, it's a dual 2.3 gh 8 gb of ram and two 250 gb HDs G5 tower with OS 10 leopard, iLife, iWork, office, and cs4 creative suits installed.
He says it's in perfect condition and runs flawlessly. I would test it of course before buying.
He is asking $325 for it. Sounds like a to good to be true price. He said I can meet up tonight so I can test it out.
I don't know the running prices on used G5's. So is this a normal price?
Thanks guys!!
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Hello all. I have a iMac on one floor. I was thinking about picking up a Mac mini for another part of the house. But, a quick check on Craig's list found a tempting G5.
So, it's a dual 2.3 gh 8 gb of ram and two 250 gb HDs G5 tower with OS 10 leopard, iLife, iWork, office, and cs4 creative suits installed.
He says it's in perfect condition and runs flawlessly. I would test it of course before buying.
He is asking $325 for it. Sounds like a to good to be true price. He said I can meet up tonight so I can test it out.
I don't know the running prices on used G5's. So is this a normal price?
Thanks guys!!
Sounds like a lousy deal to me when you could get this mac mini for slightly less than $200 more. The mini will be much faster, quieter, have a much longer life span going forward and be able to run current and future OS X upgrades as well as current and future third party soft ware.
PPC machines a this point are a bad solution unless you need to run older software that will not run on Intel Macs.
Hello all. I have a iMac on one floor. I was thinking about picking up a Mac mini for another part of the house. But, a quick check on Craig's list found a tempting G5.
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Assuming that the Power Mac G5 includes a monitor, mouse, and keyboard and that everything else is on the up-and-up, then the price is fantastic. However, the Mac mini is a very different machine. The PM G5 has no future. The Mac mini has no past. There are things that each computer can do that the other can't and vice-versa. If you are having trouble deciding between the two machines, then you should decide what you want to do with your computer. Buy the computer that best fits your plans.
I don't know the running prices on used G5's. So is this a normal price?
G5s are mostly obsolete now and very power hungry. You'd be better off with the Mini as you can at least run the latest OS. You can't even run 10.6 on a PPC so no App Store.