Thank you all for your input!
Yeah, the machines in my office really aren't up for grabs, if we deem them to be unusable, we can ask surplus to come take them from us and then I start hanging out at surplus a lot.
My thought on the matter was "here's an okay looking, very high end G5 for really cheap." At worst, it dies at some point, I take it to the university bookstore, and based on some rumors, I get a Mac Pro for my trouble. At the best, I have a G5 that's usable for what I do today for quite some time. I figure that I could put a backup copy of my photos on it, use it to host my iTunes library, and because it'll be hooked up to my monitor, use it for hulu/netflix. -- And of course keep it around to try out and use a bunch of different Mac software I'd like to have around more often.
Of course, none of this speculation even confirms that it'll still be there when I get back to Flagstaff with enough money to get it and with a way to get it home. (Because, I'm not carying it home.)
My only real possible negative thought about the G5 is that I can't really hook thin clients to it, nor can I really do much modern gaming/virtualization on it, which were some of the things I sort of wanted in my next upgrade.
Yeah, the machines in my office really aren't up for grabs, if we deem them to be unusable, we can ask surplus to come take them from us and then I start hanging out at surplus a lot.
My thought on the matter was "here's an okay looking, very high end G5 for really cheap." At worst, it dies at some point, I take it to the university bookstore, and based on some rumors, I get a Mac Pro for my trouble. At the best, I have a G5 that's usable for what I do today for quite some time. I figure that I could put a backup copy of my photos on it, use it to host my iTunes library, and because it'll be hooked up to my monitor, use it for hulu/netflix. -- And of course keep it around to try out and use a bunch of different Mac software I'd like to have around more often.
Of course, none of this speculation even confirms that it'll still be there when I get back to Flagstaff with enough money to get it and with a way to get it home. (Because, I'm not carying it home.)
My only real possible negative thought about the G5 is that I can't really hook thin clients to it, nor can I really do much modern gaming/virtualization on it, which were some of the things I sort of wanted in my next upgrade.