4 Apr
2013
4 Apr
'13
10:15 p.m.
On 04/04/13 11:47 PM, TeoZ wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Thain" <toby at
telegraphics.com.au>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 11:15 PM
Subject: G5s now dumpster fruit - Re: How to buy a cheap Mac - Re:
Emetics - Re: planned obsolescence is poor engineering
Like I said, I was finding G5s in the dumpster a year ago. And about
eight G4 towers.
Yes the G5 case design and interior is just lovely. A warning to anyone
still running them: The power supplies can be very hard to replace, so
stockpile working systems and parts.
--T
On 04/04/13 10:49 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Toby Thain<toby at telegraphics.com.au>
> wrote:
>> In 2011, I got my 2009, 8 x 3GHz core Mac Pro for half Apple's *refurb*
>> price (ebay again).
>
> Nice.
>
>> Pretty sure you can find them in dumpsters by now. That's how I got
>> *two*
>> dual processor Mac G5 workstations.
>
> I used to see a lot of G3s being discarded, but those dried up a
> couple of years back. Right now, I see more G4s than anything else,
> but G5s are definitely being left out on the curbs around here
G5 towers or the buggy imacs? I pretty much ended my Mac collecting at
the last machine that would boot OS 9.x (a G4 MDD), but I would rescue a
G5 tower just because I like the case.
Most of the G3's have been recycled, G4's are being dumped lately so I
expect G5s to be dumped soon as well (especially since Apple OS has not
supported PPC in a long time).