Is this a decent price?

#1 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 00:17 68kMLA

Local Craigslist has a 20 inch G5 iMac, 1.8 MHz, 2GB, 150 GB HD, OS 10.4.11, CS3 Suite, keyboard, mouse, original install disks. All for $600. Is that a decent price?

#2 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 00:40 68kMLA

No. You can get Merom macbook for that price. And most G5s are doomed to the capacitor plague.

#3 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 02:39 68kMLA

Nah... A 128k Mac is faster than 1.8mhz }

#4 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 03:26 68kMLA

Don't touch G5 iMacs, too many problems. If you really want a G5, buy a Power Mac. So far, no problems with the Intel iMacs.

#5 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 05:12 68kMLA

The PowerMac G5s are doomed to coolant system failure (leaking coolant). :-(

#6 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 05:39 68kMLA

Got a number of G5 towers at the office, some of which have been running continuously for years. Not a single problem.

#7 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 09:28 68kMLA

The PowerMac G5s are doomed to coolant system failure (leaking coolant). :-(

... only the ones that use coolant fluid. Most of them don't. My G5 has almost 5 years strong and the only failure so far was a weird brown pillow shaped capacitor in the power supply.

My mom has a used iMac G5 that runs fine. I think for any reasonably well used iMac G5s that capacitor plague would have been exposed by this point in time. Not all of them had the bad capacitors and sometimes Apple will still fix the problem for free if you bother them enough.

#8 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 14:35 68kMLA

Umm. No, it is not a decent price! It doesn't even come with a Floppy Disc Burner!!!

#9 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 15:13 68kMLA

Don't touch G5 iMacs, too many problems. If you really want a G5, buy a Power Mac. So far, no problems with the Intel iMacs.

1.9 and 2.1GHz iMac G5's are fine.

#10 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 16:28 68kMLA

... It doesn't even come with a Floppy Disc Burner!!!

I think that's going to become an Internet phenomenon, isn't it?

Anyway, $600 for an iMac G5 is not a good deal.

#11 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 17:05 68kMLA

Thanks for all the replies. The same Craigslist had a MDD (2003) DP 1.25 for $350, which I think is a little high, but haven't done an eBay comparison.

#12 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 - 19:56 68kMLA

Thanks for all the replies. The same Craigslist had a MDD (2003) DP 1.25 for $350, which I think is a little high, but haven't done an eBay comparison.

As cool as MDD's are I think thats rather steep seeing as how the G4 is the new G3 in today's world.

G5's at most should be $450 imo.

#13 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 - 03:39 68kMLA

Way too much for a G5. I wouldn't buy a non-intel Mac these days to use as your computer.

#14 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 - 02:38 68kMLA

If it comes with a legit CS3 then it could be worth it.

There was a tip on macosxhints today about getting the capacitors fixed on iMac G5s.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090314071508354

#15 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 - 23:06 68kMLA

Local Craigslist has a 20 inch G5 iMac, 1.8 MHz, 2GB, 150 GB HD, OS 10.4.11, CS3 Suite, keyboard, mouse, original install disks. All for $600. Is that a decent price?

I would suggest a dual core processor. Besides, 1.8 MHz really isn't very fast