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A friend of mine is selling a Mac G5 ( 2.3Ghz Dual Core, 8GB Ram, 250GB HDD ) for £200 (about $325) and I was considering buying it. However I know they are old-ish machines and the latest thing they can run is OS X Leopard 10.5.8 as they don't use intel processors. It would be my first Mac computer but I cant afford an imac, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro etc and I am off to university soon so money will be tight. So really my question to you is should a I buy it and if I did how capable/usable would it be? |
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Stretch for the additional and buy a Mac Mini - they're great little machines, not much more than you're looking at for a G5 and will last longer and be more current than the G5. Look for academic discounts from Apple or your university, both for the machine and software, these can be significant. And look at freeware/open source applications like NeoOffice instead of commercial applications like Microsoft Office - you'll more than likely spend much more in the end for software than hardware. Depending on your discipline, you may need software that will not be available for PPC machines. Good luck! |
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If you have a spare £200, I'd say : go for it. Since you're going to university I assume you'll mostly be using it for e-mail and writing papers and assignments. The G5 will do a very good job at this. There are still a lot of applications out there that work with the PowerPC architecture. What else are you planning to do with it? Just the usual internet browsing, music, work, skype and maybe the odd game such as minecraft...but nothing that requires a "super pc". At the moment I have a Compaq Notebook PC running windows 7 which would handle any downloads but I want a main dekstop PC thats reliable and just use day to day. Thanks for the answer it has helped :) Not sure if Minecraft runs very well on a PowerPC. This post gives hope though : http://nickdirienzo.blogspot.com/2011/05/update-minecraft-on-g5.html Its fine on my laptop anyway so im not that fussed, its not a deal breaker but thanks :P |
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I have 2, they are the BEST computer I have ever purchased. You can count on them. I would definitely do it. |
