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An indication of what Apple thinks about Intel based Macs today.

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Look at the condition of the front of this G5 listed on Ebay. These cases really hold up longer term. Don't like that they use the Mavericks wallpaper on the display to trick a potential buyer. You can't run Mavericks on any PPC machine. Support ended with Leopard. Some unknowing Mac newbie might think this can run everything the original Mac Pro can.

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Look at the condition of the front of this G5. These cases really hold up longer term. Don't like that they use the Mavericks wallpaper on the display to trick a potential buyer. You can't run Mavericks on any PPC machine. Support ended with Leopard. Some unknowing Mac newbie might think this can run everything the original Mac Pro can.

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My Power Mac G3/G4s also held up great. All were in pristine condition when I sold them. Just had to place a towel on the table to prevent the Apple logo from scratching when flipping down the motherboard panel. Those things were put together really well with no body flex at all, really solid.
 
Words that I would use to describe the Power Mac G5 cases:
Inoffensive.
Huge.
Behemoth.
Gigantic.
Boxy.
Big Bertha.


Words that I would use to describe the "El Capitan" cases:
Svelte.
Sexy.
Modern.
Thoughtful.
 
Words that I would use to describe the Power Mac G5 cases:
Inoffensive.
Huge.
Behemoth.
Gigantic.
Boxy.
Big Bertha.


Words that I would use to describe the "El Capitan" cases:
Svelte.
Sexy.
Modern.
Thoughtful.

My favorite Hackintosh!, perfect, (for me) in every single way and it doesn't look big because you see through it!.

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My favorite Hackintosh!, perfect, (for me) in every single way and it doesn't look big because you see through it!.

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Being that I live in a tiny studio apartment, the size of it always bothered me. It took up so much space on my desk compared to my Power Mac G3/G4s. I was glad to finally get rid of mine when I put together my first hackintosh.

Size is one of the reasons I never built anything around an ATX motherboard. I always preferred mATX. I liked ITX too but there were too many compromises with it...

Being able to regain so much desk space after going to my Mac Studio has been a godsend.
 
Being that I live in a tiny studio apartment, the size of it always bothered me. It took up so much space on my desk compared to my Power Mac G3/G4s. I was glad to finally get rid of mine when I put together my first hackintosh.

Size is one of the reasons I never built anything around an ATX motherboard. I always preferred mATX. I liked ITX too but there were too many compromises with it...

Being able to regain so much desk space after going to my Mac Studio has been a godsend.

Well...

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I positioned my old Mac Pros on the right side of my desk (against the wall) because putting it on the left side would have blocked out so much light that my apt would have looked like a shadowy dungeon.
 
I positioned my old Mac Pros on the right side of my desk (against the wall) because putting it on the left side would have blocked out so much light that my apt would have looked like a shadowy dungeon.
I’m sure if I was more spacially challenged then it would have to go. They would make great desk legs, just not in the ‘goldilock zone’, either to high or too short!.
 
I’m sure if I was more spacially challenged then it would have to go. They would make great desk legs, just not in the ‘goldilock zone’, either to high or too short!.

It would be great places to hide a NAS on one side and home server on the other.
 
At this point, those old Power Mac G5s are worthless.
I was joking, of course. In $$, they are indeed worthless, even though I paid $4K for mine in 2005. And then Apple almost immediately made the PowerPC CPU obsolete, excerpt maybe for its "James Webb Space Telescope" application. But mine has value other than monetary... how many of you can play "Obsidian" (by Rocket Science) on demand, these days? The Journeyman Projects 1 and 2? Etc that require Classic (Mac OS 9.2.2)? Mac OS Tiger 10.4.11 is on the last Macintosh that can do that.
 
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