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Post #9 by ~Coxy
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 6 Apr 2009 - 04:41
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/why-broken-macs-are-a-better-deal.17073/
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I don't think G5's are at their bottom of the value curve yet. Anybody have a clue how many G5's were built compared to G4 towers? You still see massive quantities of G4s around, but not G5s.
G4s were 1999-2003, plus a little longer because Apple kept selling G4 towers for people who needed OS 9 bootability.

G5s were only 2003-2006, and not only that but the Intel transition was announced in June 05 so I bet they didn't sell too many of them in that last year.

A rough estimate indicates that there are just under two G4 towers for every G5 tower. Given that G4s are more out of date with a lot of them being obsolete while all G5s are still fully supported in 10.5 I think that explains why you see so many of the former compared to the latter.

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