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I've been prepping my 1.8SP G5 to sell for the past few months (drive wiping, clean install of OS 10.5, taking pictures, etc.). Haven't decided between eBay and Craig's List. I have the original box and packing materials, so shipping wouldn't be such a big deal, but of course it would be expensive given the weight.

Anyone in the Madison, WI area looking for a gently-used G5?

I sold my G5 a few weeks ago. It served me well for 3 years. The Mac Pro is obviously the logical successor to the PMG5. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't offer any headless mid-range desktops anymore, so I bought a MacBook Pro instead. From previously having a PMG4, I found the G5/Mac Pro form factor - though beautiful - is just too large, heavy, and expensive.

It's amazing that Apple has kept the external case design almost unchanged for 6 years now! I just wish they made a smaller one.

Using it to stream video over multicast. I'll probably let it continue until 10.5 is no longer supported.

I have a MacBook Pro (unibody) that I use when I travel (a lot). My husband has a Quad Core Mac Pro. We still have a small number of System 9 programs, that I have not upgraded (need to remove data and reformat), so until that is done, will use the G5 for our last System 9 applications.

It appears everyone is jumping ship on this one. Doesn't it make you angry spending a few thousand dollars just three years ago to have it become a heap of junk? When you buy a Mercedes-Benz you can expect to buy factory parts from them no matter what year your vehicle is. That's what I call customer support. When you bought a high-end computer three years ago, wouldn't you expect the same? For apple to be so arrogant as to drop software support for such expensive pieces of equipment is unconscionable. They seem to have sold out the artists, writers, photographers, videographers and musicians that brought them here. If I were you Apple, I would beware selling out your exclusitivity for greater market share, especially when people are already installing your OSX on $250 PCs.

So tell me, why would I want to spend another $5000 on one of your machines?

Much though I would like to replace my G5 Dual 2.0 GHz, that won't happen for some time for family financial reasons. I am currently running OS10.5.8, but am tempted to retrograde to OS 10.4.11 for simplicity's sake. I have no real use for many of the "Bells and Whistles" in Leopard, such as Expose and Spaces, but I am hooked on Time Machine.

My Giga-bit Ethernet G4, is still running strong at my daughter's house, though next year she will probably replace it with a Mac Mini. Over the years I upgraded the processor to 1.2 GHz dual, the video board to an ATI 7000, added a bunch of additional drives and an USB 2.0 card. The only things that have failed over the years are the battery and the cheapo USB card. The G4 can still boot OS 9.1.1, but has Leopard installed on it.

To me, Snow Leopard, was Apple's excuse to divest themselves of the responsibility of supporting PowerPC's and the legacy of Carbon. Including Rosetta as an additional install, avoided a lot of heat from consumers with older software. The transition from ADB to USB and loss of an internal floppy drive with the original iMac was more abrupt and contentious amongst users.

So, "Yes," Apple has a tax for the consumer that wants to stay on the leading edge of technology. But I can no longer afford to.

I sold my PowerMac G5, for about $800 to buy the new iMac 27".... Happier than ever.... I spent a few year with this G5, I really loved what this machine has done for me, never neede repair, worked perfectly.... An excellent machine.
I won't buy the MacPro, the iMac 27" is more than perfect for video editing...

HATED to do it, but I scrapped the G5 and moved to a Mac Mini. I work for an Apple dealer and even we don't get much of a break. When comparing Apple's high-end Mac Pros with comparable pc's from other vendors, Apple charges about DOUBLE what you'd get anywhere else. 10-20 years ago I'd find a way to scrape up the cash to buy from Apple but the last decade has SUCKED for me economy-wise, so i've been buying used Macs. Since even 3 year old Mac Pros are still going for $2k on ebay, I said screw it and bought the cheapest new Mac I could stomach - the 2nd tier Mini (2.5ghz Core 2 Duo). It also sucks that Apple didn't upgrade these when they revved up the new MacBook Pro models.

I run Logic and ProTools at home so I kinda needed to upgrade to 10.6 to stay current with software. But the other benefits I weighed towards buying a new Mac was being on the Intel platform helps with running Virtual Machines (I'm running a little Fusion and a little more VirtualBox)