[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

Originally Posted by supernova1965

Isnt it amazing how the world works I just posted this yesterday and what should turn up at the local recycling center but a PowerMac G5 with 2gig of ram and a good graphics card I haven't seen it yet I will pick it up tommorow. I am nearly jumping out of my skin with excitement I hope it works. Can anyone tell me about this model I think it is the 1.8 mhz with 2 processors dual core 64bit. The only thing missing is a HDD which is the thing you want to be missing as you can use any HDD to replace it

I've used this one at home Warren since I bought it in 2003. It's been used daily for graphics-intensive work and it has NEVER missed a beat. Not one. Seven years old and I still use it as my main machine. I've had numerous PC's around the house and none survived during that time - not even the Q-9550 QuadCore. I'm expecting a 27" i7 iMac next week, but I'll be keeping the DualG5 forever.

It's the the dual-processor 1.8GHz G5 tower (900MHz bus), but mine has 4Gb of RAM onboard. It has a GeForce FX5200 as standard, and is a great display card for its day.

You'll LOVE it. The best of PPC-based Macs, and running Leopard it's as STABLE-as. Even when they went to 2.7GHz, they really weren't noticeably faster. Well, maybe a tiny bit. One thing I love about these is how fast they go to sleep. Mine goes to sleep in about a second - and wakes up in the morning in five. They are as quiet-as, with the fan noise almost imperceptible until the processors need a little cooling once in a while, when you hear the "turbo" whine for 10 seconds until they cool again. The internal air baffle is beautifully crafted, and air moves through the machine superbly. Also - not a cable in sight as they're all hidden from view. Just typical effort and detail they go to.

The hardware is the best I've ever seen in a commercial system - the "Takahashi" of the desktop computer world in my opinion. The cabinet quality is simply stunning, and it's a work of art inside - as though it's machined from billet aluminium. Quite incredible industrial design. Bung in a 1Tb SATA drive for a hundred bucks or so and away you go. Make sure you do run Leopard, because you get multiple desktops and all the new trinkets. Mine's a little beaten up as I used to drag it into the office every other day for nearly two years. A laptop just didn't have the power.

Here's mine with my MacMini on top. It, too, is a good little machine, and I'm configuring it as my astro field machine, running Windows XP under GuestPC. Not bad - running XP on a PPC!