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[Nhirlathothep]

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[Eug]

As you already know, I have 5 PowerPC machines. One is a 1.25 GHz iMac with 2 GB RAM, and another is a 1.7 GHz Cube with upgraded GPU.

However none of them are usable in 2016.

You might be able to BARELY use a dual G5 Power Mac but even that wouldn't be pleasant.

Really what you need is an Intel machine.

 

[TheStu]

As you already know, I have 5 PowerPC machines. One is a 1.25 GHz iMac with 2 GB RAM, and another is a 1.7 GHz Cube with upgraded GPU.

However none of them are usable in 2016.

You might be able to BARELY use a dual G5 Power Mac but even that wouldn't be pleasant.

Really what you need is an Intel machine.

I'd doubt the viability of even a top spec G5 PowerMac. IIRC, the OG Core Duo MacBook was competitive in terms of performance to it.

 

[Nhirlathothep]

As you already know, I have 5 PowerPC machines. One is a 1.25 GHz iMac with 2 GB RAM, and another is a 1.7 GHz Cube with upgraded GPU.

However none of them are usable in 2016.

You might be able to BARELY use a dual G5 Power Mac but even that wouldn't be pleasant.

Really what you need is an Intel machine.

hi buddy!
Yes, and i saw your beautiful pics!

i already have all the new macs on the market,(in some case more than one, for example 3 x imac 27 5k) but i like the old one more than the new one and really want to see all the collections.

sadly i think this is not the right forum for collectors

 

[Eug]

I'd doubt the viability of even a top spec G5 PowerMac. IIRC, the OG Core Duo MacBook was competitive in terms of performance to it.

I have a Core Duo 2.0 iMac as well. See the picture he quoted (from another thread). That pic has 5 PowerPC Macs and the Core Duo iMac.

The Core Duo would be OK for basic surfing if it could run a current version of OS X. However, Apple won't allow it, so it's stuck on 10.6, which is a problem for security and current browsers. But at least it has 2 GB RAM and runs Mac OS X 10.6 and supports a current version of Firefox so it's tolerable. The Power Macs max out Mac OS X 10.5, which means no current version of any of the three major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox) will run on it. That's one of the reasons I said trying to run even a dual G5 wouldn't be pleasant.

i already have all the new macs on the market,(in some case more than one, for example 3 x imac 27 5k) but i like the old one more than the new one and really want to see all the collections.

sadly i think this is not the right forum for collectors

Nothing wrong with collecting the PowerPC Macs. However, just don't expect to actually get any meaningful use out of them.

Ironically though, the NAS I use every single day is run off PowerPC. It is a Synology DS413 running the latest version of Synology DSM OS.

Dual-core Freescale PowerPC CPU at 1.067 GHz
1 GB DDR3 RAM
eSATA
USB 3
Gigabit Ethernet
Linux + Synology DSM 6