iMac G5 Pix

[Eug]

Pix

I ordered the upgrade to wireless kbd/mouse (Bluetooth) and it doesn't come with a wired set. However, at first boot, it asks you to pair them so you can run everything just fine before you even set up an account without having to plug in a wired keyboard first. You can even use target mode or whatever from the wireless keyboard. Cool.

Specs:

20" 1680x1050 widescreen LCD
2 GHz PowerPC G5 970FX with 512 KB L2 cache
667 MHz bus
512 MB DDR400 SDRAM <-- To be upgraded to 1.5 GB
400 GB SATA hard drive
Slot-load 8x SuperDrive (dual-layer)
ATI Radeon 9600 with 128MB DDR video memory <-- Exposé is smooth even with a bazillion open windows
56k internal modem
Mac OS X Tiger 10.4
Bluetooth 2.0 with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse
Airport Extreme 802.11g
Firewire 400, USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet
Built-in speakers <-- Not bad actually
A bunch of software

 

[ElFenix]

apple hardware is just so damn nice looking

 

[RossMAN]

Price?
Discount?

 

[SouthPaW1227]

verrrrrrrry nice, cya on MacNN 😉

 

[mcvickj]

Holy hard drive space batman!! I'm assuming you do some type graphics editing?

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Price?
Discount?

I get the standard educational discount.

Originally posted by: mcvickj
Holy hard drive space batman!! I'm assuming you do some type graphics editing?

Meh. 400 GB isn't that much these days. 😉 It comes with 250 GB stock anyway, so it wasn't a huge extra cost to upgrade to 400 GB. I do some basic home movie editing, but if I wanted a real video editing station I would have gotten a dual 2.3 GHz Power Mac with dual hard drives.

I currently have around 150 GB of stuff. I like to backup all my software as disc images too. BTW, Tiger and the iMac software are on two dual layer DVDs, for a total of 13.5 GB. :shocked:

 

[lowfatbaconboy]

just hope you didn't get one with the bad batch of capacitors

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: lowfatbaconboy
just hope you didn't get one with the bad batch of capacitors

Yeah, I heard about those. Apparently a lot of mobo manufacturers (eg. Gigabyte) have been hit with bad cap supplies. The caps seem to go within the first 18 months.

Luckily the educational price for AppleCare is quite inexpensive, so I paid for the full 3 years.

 

[mb]

Sexy

 

[chcarnage]

Sweet specs. Is the picture with the cats from a webcam widget?

 

[Eug]

Yes indeed it is. That's the Portland Oregon Humane Society.
This webcam widget lists lots of webcams, and my other favourite is the Las Vegas Wedding Chapel. 😀

 

[bluemax]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but now that a few months have passed, do you still love it just as much?

I'm hoping to trade/sell my new Dell 4700 setup and go iMac G5, so I'm always looking for people with 1st-hand experience.

 

[revnja]

You should sell that cube to me since you don't need it anymore. *cough* 😀