Local Craigslist has a 20 inch G5 iMac, 1.8 MHz, 2GB, 150 GB HD, OS 10.4.11, CS3 Suite, keyboard, mouse, original install disks. All for $600. Is that a decent price?
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Is this a decent price?
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Nah... A 128k Mac is faster than 1.8mhz }
Don't touch G5 iMacs, too many problems. If you really want a G5, buy a Power Mac. So far, no problems with the Intel iMacs.
Got a number of G5 towers at the office, some of which have been running continuously for years. Not a single problem.
... only the ones that use coolant fluid. Most of them don't. My G5 has almost 5 years strong and the only failure so far was a weird brown pillow shaped capacitor in the power supply.
My mom has a used iMac G5 that runs fine. I think for any reasonably well used iMac G5s that capacitor plague would have been exposed by this point in time. Not all of them had the bad capacitors and sometimes Apple will still fix the problem for free if you bother them enough.
1.9 and 2.1GHz iMac G5's are fine.
Thanks for all the replies. The same Craigslist had a MDD (2003) DP 1.25 for $350, which I think is a little high, but haven't done an eBay comparison.
As cool as MDD's are I think thats rather steep seeing as how the G4 is the new G3 in today's world.
G5's at most should be $450 imo.
If it comes with a legit CS3 then it could be worth it.
There was a tip on macosxhints today about getting the capacitors fixed on iMac G5s.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090314071508354
There was a tip on macosxhints today about getting the capacitors fixed on iMac G5s.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090314071508354
I would suggest a dual core processor. Besides, 1.8 MHz really isn't very fast
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