The G5 is in a new aluminum enclosure that’s vented in the front and back.
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One headphone jack, one USB 2.0 port, and one FireWire 400 port are located on the front of the G5 for easy access, something Power Mac users have been dreaming of for years. The Power Mac G5 also adopts the new twice-as-fast AGP 8x bus for video cards.
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New to Apple are Serial ATA (SATA), which supports up to 1.5 GBps bandwidth for internal hard drives, and built-in USB 2.0, which finally gives Mac users full speed access to some of those wonderful USB 2.0 peripherals developed over the previous couple years. System memory is so fast (400 MHz RAM on an 800 MHz to 1.0 GHz bus) that there’s no need for a level 3 cache. The motherboard architecture uses the new HyperTransport technology. The PPC 970 uses the same Velocity Engine instructions as the AltiVec engine in Motorola’s G4 processor, and it’s fully compatible with existing 32-bit software. The PPC 970 is based on the same POWER CPU core as IBM’s supercomputers.īoth the Power Mac G5 and the PowerPC 970 CPU were designed from the ground up to support symmetric multiprocessing (using two or more CPUs to run processes in parallel). In terms of increased clock speed, that means Intel had a 6.7% speed bump the same day that Apple announced a 40% improvement in clock speed (from 1.42 GHz to 2.0 GHz), allowing it to call the Power Mac G5 the world’s fastest personal computer at the time.Īpple is using the 64-bit PowerPC 970 processor from IBM, since Motorola abandoned its G5 development plans long ago. Pretty sure they still do that for iPods, but like I said, don't know if it is for Macs or not.The Power Mac G5 was introduced on 2003.06.23 – the same day Intel officially unveiled the 3.2 GHz Pentium 4. I don't know if it's still the case, but I know that at one point Apple offered a 10% discount on the purchase of a new Mac if you brought in an old one to trade in for recycling. Personally, in the end I decided to keep mine and use it as a central server for my house so that I could save hard disk space on my MacBook by linking to the G5 for my iTunes, documents that several different local computers are going to want access to, and such. If you know any serious artists, you may want to see what they're willing to offer you, they'll probably give you the best price of anyone. Depending on the graphics card it has installed, it could be rather valuable (I think it's the Radeon card he was looking for, but I forget). One of my artist friends immediately made an offer to me for my G5 tower when I first got it back. then suddenly your computer may cost more for me to have in-hand and working than a more expensive one that comes ready to work (and I don't have to mess with it).įor what it's worth: Mac2Sell offers online estimates for used Apple Macs If I have to buy a drive, pay shipping, etc.
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Factor in what it'll cost somebody to buy one. If you're providing a set of retail OS discs, well you could probably get near new value for both Tiger and Leopard retails discs. You're legally required to include them or to erase the upgraded OS. If you're going to sell it with an upgraded OS such as Leopard make sure the buyer gets those discs.
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If I have to pay $40 for shipping, well, I might just look for a computer that is abut $40 more expensive locally since it's all the same in the end (and locally I can at least see it before buying). Also consider what somebody will have to pay to get their hands on a working computer. Never owned a computer as young as 2 years.Īs for selling, check value on places such as e-bay and Craigslist (CL is good for getting local prices). I recall hearing about schools that basically aren't interested in anything that's older than two years, which makes my jaw drop since I have For many anything older than two years is considered on its way to obsolete. I believe there is somebody on the forums who refurbishes old Macs and donates them to schools - maybe a Discussions search might turn up the name.
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I doubt Apple is interested in anything as old as a G5.