G4!

[quinterro]

I found an 'inexpensive' PowerMac G4 on eBay and won it for $80.

400mhz g4

512MB RAM

40Gb Hard disk

Tiger

My B/W G3 will go to work and be my iTunes server and general tinkerbox there and the current music box (a Dell Dimension XPS P3-550) will be wiped and sold.

 

[MultiFinder]

Nice! Is it a sawtooth or Yikes?

 

[quinterro]

Nice! Is it a sawtooth or Yikes?

I think it's sawtooth, but it's difficult to tell from the description or the pictures.

 

[Quadraman]

It's always a good day when a Dell XPS gets replaced by a Mac.

 

[quinterro]

It's always a good day when a Dell XPS gets replaced by a Mac.

[] ]'>

 

[jkoci]

Nice. That's how much I paid for mine.

 

[IPNixon]

Awesome! I paid $232.99 with shipping for my G4 Cube (450/40gb/512mb*/DVD-ROM) back in August last year. At first, I thought I had paid a little too much for just a G4 450, but when I got it and unpacked it and all, it was like . I hardly notice a difference between this machine and the iMac G4 1.25 in the living room, doing light tasks (Internet browsing, chatting, iTunes, etc).

The machine sucks as soon as you open any type of video-editing program :\

Oh, well...I love my Cube

*Upgraded now to 640MB

 

[quinterro]

Awesome! I paid $232.99 with shipping for my G4 Cube (450/40gb/512mb*/DVD-ROM) back in August last year. At first, I thought I had paid a little too much for just a G4 450, but when I got it and unpacked it and all, it was like . I hardly notice a difference between this machine and the iMac G4 1.25 in the living room, doing light tasks (Internet browsing, chatting, iTunes, etc).
The machine sucks as soon as you open any type of video-editing program :\

Oh, well...I love my Cube

*Upgraded now to 640MB

My main PC is an Athlon64 X2 3600 with 1GB RAM and Win2k/Ubuntu 7.04 installed. If I do anything with video it's on that one.

At least we have the option of upgrading the processors if needed.

 

[iMac600]

Nice! I paid $70 for mine ($50 + $20 shipping) just because it was advertised as having a "Faulty Logic Board with No RAM or HD". When it arrived, it worked flawlessly.

 

[MultiFinder]

Awesome! I paid $232.99 with shipping for my G4 Cube (450/40gb/512mb*/DVD-ROM) back in August last year. At first, I thought I had paid a little too much for just a G4 450, but when I got it and unpacked it and all, it was like . I hardly notice a difference between this machine and the iMac G4 1.25 in the living room, doing light tasks (Internet browsing, chatting, iTunes, etc).
The machine sucks as soon as you open any type of video-editing program :\

Oh, well...I love my Cube

*Upgraded now to 640MB

Cubes are hawt.

But yeah, I've noticed that about even my Dual 500 G4 (768 megs RAM); It's a wonderful machine for nearly everything until you start trying to do video stuff on it.

Rock on with the G4's! That CPU still has many many many happy years ahead of it.

 

[jkoci]

At least we have the option of upgrading the processors if needed.

I upgraded to from a 400 to a 1 ghz Sonnet. It seems to handle video fine.

 

[paws]

So you think CPU upgrades are worth the money, even if all I have is a Sawtooth?

 

[LCGuy]

It all depends what you're doing. If you're just using it to run Office, a web browser, and an email client, and iTunes, then no. But if you're running Photoshop, iLife, and other CPU intensive applications, then its definately worth it.

 

[Bunsen]

Nice! I paid $70 for mine ($50 + $20 shipping) just because it was advertised as having a "Faulty Logic Board with No RAM or HD". When it arrived, it worked flawlessly.

8-o

it would be superfluous, one assumes, to mention that 8-o I HATE YOU

 

[Quadraman]

Cubes are very expensive for what you actually get. When they were new, they cost more than an equivalent Powermac and still sell for more. With the limited expandability, it is very hard for me to justify paying so much more for a Cube than for a G4 tower.

 

[iMac600]

Nice! I paid $70 for mine ($50 + $20 shipping) just because it was advertised as having a "Faulty Logic Board with No RAM or HD". When it arrived, it worked flawlessly.

8-o

it would be superfluous, one assumes, to mention that 8-o I HATE YOU

Heh, well the advertised issue was that the Firewire controller was defective, but i've since thrown in an Agere FW400 card to cover for it. I did take it out to test, but couldn't find an issue, so i'm assuming the board itself works.

 

[quinterro]

Nice! Is it a sawtooth or Yikes?

I think it's sawtooth, but it's difficult to tell from the description or the pictures.

I asked the seller if it had an AGP card and they replied that it did. A sawtooth it is! [] ]'>

 

[quinterro]

My wife called me to say there was a large FedEx box by the door, so the G4 has finally arrived.

I feel like a kid at Christmas. [] ]'> Only 3.5 hours before I can leave work...

 

[MacMan]

Brilliant!

I remember when I bought my PowerBook 520c on eBay I had it shipped directly to my work so I could play with it right away!