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Up until this year, I was using a dual 2.0-GHz PowerMac G5 as my main audio workstation and produced multiple gold records with it. i bought it from a computer recycling center for $80 in 2016 to replace my aging G4
Using a Mac Pro 5,1 with dual-X5690s, 1TB SSD and 8TH HDD, triple 4K monitors. Works like a charm with the latest Mac OS thru OCLP. The old Mac Pros were timeless machines. I can even simultaneously emulate Windows and Linux on it owing to 48GB of RAM.
@@Kabodanki Well, if your gas central heating runs out of gas, electric is an option. But of course if everyone switches it on at the same time likely the grid will collapse
That case is still the best looking traditional PC case out there. The way the latch works and how beautifully it's laid out inside is unmatched IMO. I use a maxed out Intel '08 for audio production and it still absolutely flies.
They're beautiful cases. I've long wanted to pick up a broken Mac Pro or G5 and build my modern PC into it, but I've never found the time. (Or the case really, they're not that common where I am, and I don't want to gut a working one.)
I have a G5 (looking for a new home btw) and an HP Z800. There is no competition. The Z800 can be taken completely apart, in under 5min with no tools. The G5 was great for its time, and ahead of its contemporaries. But I got my G5 _after_ I got my Z800, and the limitations of the design of the G5 were obvious. To change a hard drive in a Z800 takes a few seconds, and no tools, for example.
@@Chalisque You don't need tools to change a HDD in a Mac Pro. The side panel pops off and the drives slide right out. I swap HDDs out all the time. But my position is mostly aesthetic. I prefer the build quality and industrial design of the G5 case.
@@YearsOfLeadPoisoning The Mac Pro improved heavily on the Mac G5. I was comparing the Power Mac G5 to the Z800. I'd still like to see a video demonstrating the complete dismantling of a Mac Pro, without tools, in under 5mins, mind you. (Such videos exist for the Z800.)
It still blows my mind when I think about how a modern Android Tablet like a Nokia T20 in many ways is more powerful than this Power Mac G5, and cost many times less than this did when it was new, but still cool to see the Power Macs getting support from the community to this very day.
Device power is meaningless if it is used to drive useless software on a device that you have no capability of controlling - Google Android and modern Apple systems are both guilty of loading on software designed for telemetry and for breaking down the user's privacy. I don't use or own any Apple devices but I have de-Google all of my Google Android devices over the past decade or so by installing custom ROMs (Cyanogenmod or Lineage OS) on them and, in all cases, battery life doubles and the devices feel faster to use - because of the removal of a lot of tracking and telemetry services phoning home to Google.
@@segaboy9894 I am using a dummy Google account registered on a burner phone that is completely de-Googled and therefore not tracked. I am as anonymous as one can be by that method - the only email that Gmail account gets is update emails from RUclips telling me a message has been replied to. I should also say that if it's hard for you to get behind what I am saying then that could also be down to your lack of understanding of how tracking works anyway - and your lack of knowledge really isn't my problem to resolve.
These machines hold a special place in my heart. I have the highest end build to order model from 2003 with the dual 2.0 processors, 2GB RAM, and the 9800 graphics card (complete with it's own cooling fan) and that machine is the most powerful computer from 2003 that I could ever imagine using. It is impossible for me to believe that it's almost 20 years old when it still can do so many modern tasks.
I feel that. I still find Tiger the most beautiful and it’s the only OS to reflect what the machines actually looked like with the brushed metal. Then leopard was stunning, less charming than Tiger but it really felt like the future.
Due to space, I have to get rid of my old G5. I booted it up recently. It is amazing how well Logic Pro 8 runs compared to what you get on modern machines, and with a fraction of the CPU horsepower.
Just bought a number of old PowerMac G4 and G5 for 'lightroom' photography. My film scanner needs the older machines for compatibility. Besides, they are beautiful machines.
Oh my, this video brought back so many memories! I used to be so obsessed over the looks of this case in particular, and it still looks great to this day. It inspires you to turn it on and start editing video right away or something. Also a pretty nice space heater in the winter it seems, lol. Microsoft also used one of those to test Xbox 360 games IIRC, as the CPU came pretty close to the one inside of that console.
I just acquired a Working Power Mac G5, Single Processor... It works but it's in need of work. I've never had any Power Mac's so this will be a learning Experience
@@blunderingfool The Case has plenty of room however the MainBoard doesn't have the connection points printed if I wanted to try and Soldier the additional Processor Slot
We got the younger Intel brother of Power Mac in our office, and although we called it "heater" we never heard those fans. What a beautiful and functional case design! Our heater is still in the server room somewhere, running Docker containers in Linux!
Of course it is still usable. I have a few. One I use as a door stop or sometimes as a paper weight. Occasionally I hide books in it's gutted shell just in case the farenheit 451 folks come to raid my home. I even use it as a cheese grater to sprinkle on my pizza. My other G5 1.8ghz is used to watch movies and tv shows. My other G5 2ghz is used to edit movies, mix audio and edit photos or graphics. These two work excellent for what I need them to do.
I remember our AV lab in high school having 4 of these and walking into them humming every day. I used to love that sound. OSX Leopard was a great OS too. I was given an extra license by my teacher for my black MacBook.
When I was a kid and me and my family used exclusively Macs, I encouraged my dad to buy the Apple AirPort w/ Time Machine and it was a really great and convenient way to have universal network attached storage for backups for all of the computers on the network. It was also a pretty good N router.
i still have one of these cases, i actually have a cluster of raspberry pi's inside it as it hides it all and looks stunning at desk along with pc and laptops
I used my G5 for a long time, but alas, she succumbed to leakage from the cooling system and I had to retire her. I am using a 2012 Mac Pro now, running Monterey!
I'm so glad I have one of these. It's just gorgeous when you crack the case and then have the clear plastic casing as well. It's function and art within perfect balance.
I believe we had one of these at work at my last place because someone had convinced the people that paid for them that they needed it for doing the graphics for the website. The website was never that great and this wasn't needed. Someone clearly didn't know what they were pissing council tax payers money on.
I'd say it's more than the end of the powerpc era, it was the end of when they built quality into every aspect of their systems. I'm very familiar with that fan noise, as that was the first thing I heard walking into my lab when a colleague's intel machine in that same style case was churning smoke out the back. I loved mine, when it was the most practical way to get a machine with 16GB of memory, and eventually a 64-bit operating system. Then firefox "Updated" itself into an intel-only binary. The mighty mouse is great, and I still use it on a newer computer. That squeezing the sides to push all your open windows onto the screen at once was the best feature I have ever seen in a user interface. Overall, buying that thing was a permanent lesson in intentional obsolescence. It had the specs to be the top of the line for about a year. I built my own 8 core machine soon after that. Never again, apple.
I'm not a big Mac fan, though i did get to use the cheese grater in college during my media studies days in the mid 2000s and it is still my favorite case design. I wouldn't mind having one in my collection. Hell even if i could only get a hold of the case without working internals i'd totally rock it as a modern PC
My old G5 is still the workhorse in my music recording studio. It doesn't lack for power. It does lack in the ability to use newer software, but Pro Tools 9 and Reason 3 are all I really need.
How did you download all those? Whenever I try I get errors and "you can not run this application on here" safari is also not working on it so I can't download brave or anything lol.
I had the G5. It consumed 200 W idling and a lot more when in use. Bought my configurstion for 2500 Euros. Sold it a couple of years later for 2300 Euros. What a deal. My energy consumption dropped *extremely* after I sold the G5.
Thanks for this video. Folks are using the G5 to this day with various applications. It is a professional computer with an amazing design topology which produces top class audio results. I use it (G5 2004) with Logic Pro and audio card for mixing and mastering. Core Audio is Worldclass to integrate audio processing flawlessly, internally and externally.
Its interesting because the first PPC mac cpus were much smaller and less power hungry compared to the pentiums of the time while being more powerful depending on what you were doing. They were considered more forward thinking compared to the pcs.
Those aren't PCI-Express slots, they're PCI-X. PCI-X was just PCI with more pins to get up to 64 bit, and some clock shenanigans. Not a ton of platforms had PCI-X
Great machine. I was one of the bozos(as jobs would put it) who bought a G5 iMac 6 months before they announced the move to intel. Thanks Steve. A bunch. 5 macs and two laptops later I still have apple but have recently built my own PC which for me was a massive achievement with my limitations. It really really flies and was built much cheaper than an equivalent mac. The apple silicon stuff does look good though…
i still use mine on the regular, mainly as a media machine/backup archive. i maxed out the RAM to 8 gigs and have a 3 fb drive and it’s fast considering it’s age! I don’t connect it to the web but it’s I can DJ with it, as the early version of Serato Scratch Live works fine with the hardware despite its age. I have the Adobe suite cs2 which still works, as does the VLC player. and yes it’s a great space heater in the winter!
Thank you for your hint regarding "Sorbet Leopard". I will give it a try when I have time. A friend of mine gave me a Power Mac G5 4 x 2,5 GHz with 12 GB RAM as a gift, that looks brandnew. 😄
We still have one for ligher computing purposes. It has a 10 GB of RAM ( will probably max it out to 16 at some point ) a new SATA drive and the most important upgrade an Quadro FX 4500 videocard. A severe improvement. The reason why I haven't want with an SSD is because these machines are very picky when it comes to them. a good fast and with descent amount of cache mechanical drive will perform just fine.
I still have my PowerMac G5 1.8GHz with 8GB RAM! Adobe CS2 is running very fast, and I play some old games on it while keeping my feets warm. 😃😉 I will try another OS on it, morphOS or the other one.
I have one of these. Question is... How can I connect a modern high-res display monitor to it? All the displays these days have HDMI connectivity which apparently requires an adapter to hook up to a "display port" but the G5 doesn't have the kind of display port that is required. I'm confused. Any help???
Great video. Thanks for sharing, I also dream of a. G5. Before it was introduced I did not want Apple do go that route, because I knew it was hot and optimized for the server environment and the loss of altivect (Power 4). The G5 did have Altivect to my surprise, limited, but great. I loved the machine and used it at the University. Power: Yes that is an issue, and for most people running an hot Ryzen with an NVIDIA. 200+ watts gpu makes no sense and it's just irresponsible.
Somehow I never thought about how the base install being 9GB necessitated a dual layer DVD. I wonder if Snow Leopard went back to a single layer since they bragged about the Intel-only code saving 4-5GB of disk space.
I have two of them, both got locally for free. One of them works, its power supply uses a server lead for power from factory. The other doesn't work. I really should make some use of the working one as i never did anything with it.
I'm in the same situation I have two too. One I got free that was faulty but I can't remember how I got the working one. It would have been free to very cheap but can't remember the details. Saying that I've done nothing with them. They are in a spare room waiting for attention. Planning to sort them out and try to get one good working machine out of the two.
Sometimes I wonder if they'd kept up on the G5 for a bit longer (Maybe Snow Leopard or Lion) if it wouldn't still be more useful. Also, it would have been nicer to get some video cards that were just a bit more capable. They came with fairly low end cards even back when they were new, and I feel that really hurt them. I still have my 1.6Ghz G5 in the closet, and I'd love to make use of it, but there's just not much you can do short of hobby stuff. I definitely enjoyed the video! I love these old machines. Fun fact: My first Mac was an iBook G3 from 2002/2003 as well!
Even if Apple would have wanted to soldier through with the G5 for some years, Intel's achievements with P6 would've left the G5 in the dust, they couldn't afford to such ridicule. Besides, the problem with PowerPC towards the end of its run on Mac Hardware wasn't just technical: the AIM Alliance was on the verge of break-up (Apple and IBM couldn't agree on the progression of the architecture, and Motorola left and spun off its subsidiary; this could jeopardize the supply agreements and any future developments).
As an American sometimes I’ll hear “al u minium” and it won’t instantly register as aluminum lol obviously visually I can tell but before it clicks it’s like learning about a new alloy 😂 I was a big British top gear fan so you’d think It’d be burned into my brain by now but sometimes not lol Love the g5 I have a single processor dual core model that I currently can’t find it’s server grade power cable for so going to buy a new one. I have a 1st gen Mac Pro as well that Ive upgraded to max ram and dual quads currently run Linux on it.
Unless you do this purely for nostalgia purposes, I would personally rather go for a Linux distribution with older Macs, which enables you to still use the old hardware while coming with up to date software, solving a multitude of compatibility and security issues. I did that with an older MacBook Air, which was barely usable with the latest supported MacOS, but feels much more responsive with Pop!_OS. I’m not sure how well the PPC architecture is supported by Linux, though, and how capable a device that old is to actually run modern software.
The Power Mac G5s are not that power intensive by today's standards. I used a Kill a Watt meter on mine back in the day, and it would idle around 120W and push 250W under heavy CPU load. Compare that to my modern PC with an AMD 5950X CPU and NVIDIA 3090 GPU: idles at 100W and pulls over 700W under load! Gotta say cooling has come a long way since 2003: my PC makes far less noise than the Power Mac did, whilst producing 3x more heat. Not to mention what more work can be done with all that energy.
They don't like SSDs so much. I seem to recall MacOS would not even install and had to DD an image and in the end it was little better as even then MacOS was doing a good caching job. I wish someone would explain why Windows never keeps just caching more and more and prefers to just leave memory doing nothing. The OS and interface were limiting the performance on the G5. The best setup I had was a single partition striped over two physical drives.
Yea sure but more with Linux than OSX. Not a Windows fan at all, and generally am a computer builder. Not that I dislike OSX, just dislike Apple's way of discontinuing everything like 3 or so years later.
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Up until this year, I was using a dual 2.0-GHz PowerMac G5 as my main audio workstation and produced multiple gold records with it. i bought it from a computer recycling center for $80 in 2016 to replace my aging G4
A took a dump out of the toilet and connected a midi keyboard controller. I produced brown records with it. 😅
Using a Mac Pro 5,1 with dual-X5690s, 1TB SSD and 8TH HDD, triple 4K monitors. Works like a charm with the latest Mac OS thru OCLP. The old Mac Pros were timeless machines. I can even simultaneously emulate Windows and Linux on it owing to 48GB of RAM.
It is usable. In Germany electic heaters are out of stock, you could use one of those as replacement
Electric ? That won’t solve a thing. Diesel heater is more interesting but more dangerous
@@Kabodanki Well, if your gas central heating runs out of gas, electric is an option. But of course if everyone switches it on at the same time likely the grid will collapse
That case is still the best looking traditional PC case out there. The way the latch works and how beautifully it's laid out inside is unmatched IMO.
I use a maxed out Intel '08 for audio production and it still absolutely flies.
They're beautiful cases. I've long wanted to pick up a broken Mac Pro or G5 and build my modern PC into it, but I've never found the time. (Or the case really, they're not that common where I am, and I don't want to gut a working one.)
A beautiful heat-sink. Both of them. PowerPC would have been something with modern process nodes.
I have a G5 (looking for a new home btw) and an HP Z800. There is no competition. The Z800 can be taken completely apart, in under 5min with no tools. The G5 was great for its time, and ahead of its contemporaries. But I got my G5 _after_ I got my Z800, and the limitations of the design of the G5 were obvious. To change a hard drive in a Z800 takes a few seconds, and no tools, for example.
@@Chalisque You don't need tools to change a HDD in a Mac Pro. The side panel pops off and the drives slide right out. I swap HDDs out all the time.
But my position is mostly aesthetic. I prefer the build quality and industrial design of the G5 case.
@@YearsOfLeadPoisoning The Mac Pro improved heavily on the Mac G5. I was comparing the Power Mac G5 to the Z800. I'd still like to see a video demonstrating the complete dismantling of a Mac Pro, without tools, in under 5mins, mind you. (Such videos exist for the Z800.)
It still blows my mind when I think about how a modern Android Tablet like a Nokia T20 in many ways is more powerful than this Power Mac G5, and cost many times less than this did when it was new, but still cool to see the Power Macs getting support from the community to this very day.
Device power is meaningless if it is used to drive useless software on a device that you have no capability of controlling - Google Android and modern Apple systems are both guilty of loading on software designed for telemetry and for breaking down the user's privacy.
I don't use or own any Apple devices but I have de-Google all of my Google Android devices over the past decade or so by installing custom ROMs (Cyanogenmod or Lineage OS) on them and, in all cases, battery life doubles and the devices feel faster to use - because of the removal of a lot of tracking and telemetry services phoning home to Google.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 jesus...I bet you dont have any store "reward" cards either do you? Lol
@@Rap_Rat This isn't about me, sonny. So do stay on topic and try to keep up, there's a good chap.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 It's hard to get behind what you're saying when you're saying it on a Google service using your Google acct...
@@segaboy9894 I am using a dummy Google account registered on a burner phone that is completely de-Googled and therefore not tracked. I am as anonymous as one can be by that method - the only email that Gmail account gets is update emails from RUclips telling me a message has been replied to.
I should also say that if it's hard for you to get behind what I am saying then that could also be down to your lack of understanding of how tracking works anyway - and your lack of knowledge really isn't my problem to resolve.
These machines hold a special place in my heart. I have the highest end build to order model from 2003 with the dual 2.0 processors, 2GB RAM, and the 9800 graphics card (complete with it's own cooling fan) and that machine is the most powerful computer from 2003 that I could ever imagine using. It is impossible for me to believe that it's almost 20 years old when it still can do so many modern tasks.
Ah man, OS X used to look so nice. Much better than it does in recent versions.
Same for windows. Vista was beautiful and 7 looked great. 8, 10, and 11 are clinical flatliners.
Agreed with the two above
My first macos used wat 10.5 leopard, and i like old and new interface
I feel that. I still find Tiger the most beautiful and it’s the only OS to reflect what the machines actually looked like with the brushed metal. Then leopard was stunning, less charming than Tiger but it really felt like the future.
I agree. Snow leopard is still my favorite version of OS X.
Due to space, I have to get rid of my old G5. I booted it up recently. It is amazing how well Logic Pro 8 runs compared to what you get on modern machines, and with a fraction of the CPU horsepower.
Willing to sell?
Just bought a number of old PowerMac G4 and G5 for 'lightroom' photography. My film scanner needs the older machines for compatibility. Besides, they are beautiful machines.
Oh my, this video brought back so many memories! I used to be so obsessed over the looks of this case in particular, and it still looks great to this day. It inspires you to turn it on and start editing video right away or something. Also a pretty nice space heater in the winter it seems, lol. Microsoft also used one of those to test Xbox 360 games IIRC, as the CPU came pretty close to the one inside of that console.
I just acquired a Working Power Mac G5, Single Processor... It works but it's in need of work. I've never had any Power Mac's so this will be a learning Experience
Can you upgrade that into a dual CPU later down the line?
@@blunderingfool The Case has plenty of room however the MainBoard doesn't have the connection points printed if I wanted to try and Soldier the additional Processor Slot
@@MotownBatman Ah, gotcha.
We got the younger Intel brother of Power Mac in our office, and although we called it "heater" we never heard those fans. What a beautiful and functional case design! Our heater is still in the server room somewhere, running Docker containers in Linux!
Of course it is still usable. I have a few. One I use as a door stop or sometimes as a paper weight. Occasionally I hide books in it's gutted shell just in case the farenheit 451 folks come to raid my home. I even use it as a cheese grater to sprinkle on my pizza.
My other G5 1.8ghz is used to watch movies and tv shows. My other G5 2ghz is used to edit movies, mix audio and edit photos or graphics. These two work excellent for what I need them to do.
I remember our AV lab in high school having 4 of these and walking into them humming every day. I used to love that sound. OSX Leopard was a great OS too. I was given an extra license by my teacher for my black MacBook.
fun fact I use a modded power Mac g5 case to house my pc, from the outside it looks 100% original and I love it so much
When I was a kid and me and my family used exclusively Macs, I encouraged my dad to buy the Apple AirPort w/ Time Machine and it was a really great and convenient way to have universal network attached storage for backups for all of the computers on the network. It was also a pretty good N router.
i still have one of these cases, i actually have a cluster of raspberry pi's inside it as it hides it all and looks stunning at desk along with pc and laptops
I used my G5 for a long time, but alas, she succumbed to leakage from the cooling system and I had to retire her. I am using a 2012 Mac Pro now, running Monterey!
I've got a maxed out 2012 g5 . I use it everyday for making beats. I use it for all my scoring demos. It never fails me.
I'm so glad I have one of these. It's just gorgeous when you crack the case and then have the clear plastic casing as well. It's function and art within perfect balance.
I believe we had one of these at work at my last place because someone had convinced the people that paid for them that they needed it for doing the graphics for the website. The website was never that great and this wasn't needed. Someone clearly didn't know what they were pissing council tax payers money on.
Ah yes local government. The most jacked up legal nonsense in existence.
I'd say it's more than the end of the powerpc era, it was the end of when they built quality into every aspect of their systems. I'm very familiar with that fan noise, as that was the first thing I heard walking into my lab when a colleague's intel machine in that same style case was churning smoke out the back. I loved mine, when it was the most practical way to get a machine with 16GB of memory, and eventually a 64-bit operating system. Then firefox "Updated" itself into an intel-only binary. The mighty mouse is great, and I still use it on a newer computer. That squeezing the sides to push all your open windows onto the screen at once was the best feature I have ever seen in a user interface. Overall, buying that thing was a permanent lesson in intentional obsolescence. It had the specs to be the top of the line for about a year. I built my own 8 core machine soon after that. Never again, apple.
I'm not a big Mac fan, though i did get to use the cheese grater in college during my media studies days in the mid 2000s and it is still my favorite case design. I wouldn't mind having one in my collection. Hell even if i could only get a hold of the case without working internals i'd totally rock it as a modern PC
My old G5 is still the workhorse in my music recording studio. It doesn't lack for power. It does lack in the ability to use newer software, but Pro Tools 9 and Reason 3 are all I really need.
How did you download all those? Whenever I try I get errors and "you can not run this application on here" safari is also not working on it so I can't download brave or anything lol.
I had the G5. It consumed 200 W idling and a lot more when in use. Bought my configurstion for 2500 Euros. Sold it a couple of years later for 2300 Euros. What a deal.
My energy consumption dropped *extremely* after I sold the G5.
Thanks for this video. Folks are using the G5 to this day with various applications. It is a professional computer with an amazing design topology which produces top class audio results. I use it (G5 2004) with Logic Pro and audio card for mixing and mastering. Core Audio is Worldclass to integrate audio processing flawlessly, internally and externally.
Its interesting because the first PPC mac cpus were much smaller and less power hungry compared to the pentiums of the time while being more powerful depending on what you were doing. They were considered more forward thinking compared to the pcs.
In some ways this is still what's happening today with the M cpus. They might look fantastic, but only if you find a task they like to do...
Yes, please do a revisit of Morph OS. I'd like to give it a try on my Mac G5.
I’ve been running MorphOS on a G5 Quad for nearly two years now and it flies.
I use the same mighty mouse to this day. The 360 scrolling is something I've gotten so used to that it's infuriating to use a mouse without it.
I have. G5 and it still looks great, I used a LC 475 to put a 113 page magazine together, great video nicely done!
Considering leopard and vista came out around the same time you can tell that Apple really was ahead of the curve at the time
I remember a number of years ago when David covered this machine, and had to carry it on a dolly through a mall lol
still the greatest retro channel of all time !
Those aren't PCI-Express slots, they're PCI-X. PCI-X was just PCI with more pins to get up to 64 bit, and some clock shenanigans. Not a ton of platforms had PCI-X
Thank you Chris. I really appreciate it and that was exactly what I was trying to do. No fuss and helping people get on with what they need
This computer is way ahead of its time 😊
Great machine. I was one of the bozos(as jobs would put it) who bought a G5 iMac 6 months before they announced the move to intel. Thanks Steve. A bunch.
5 macs and two laptops later I still have apple but have recently built my own PC which for me was a massive achievement with my limitations. It really really flies and was built much cheaper than an equivalent mac. The apple silicon stuff does look good though…
i still use mine on the regular, mainly as a media machine/backup archive. i maxed out the RAM to 8 gigs and have a 3 fb drive and it’s fast considering it’s age! I don’t connect it to the web but it’s I can DJ with it, as the early version of Serato Scratch Live works fine with the hardware despite its age. I have the Adobe suite cs2 which still works, as does the VLC player. and yes it’s a great space heater in the winter!
Thank you for your hint regarding "Sorbet Leopard". I will give it a try when I have time. A friend of mine gave me a Power Mac G5 4 x 2,5 GHz with 12 GB RAM as a gift, that looks brandnew. 😄
We still have one for ligher computing purposes. It has a 10 GB of RAM ( will probably max it out to 16 at some point ) a new SATA drive and the most important upgrade an Quadro FX 4500 videocard. A severe improvement. The reason why I haven't want with an SSD is because these machines are very picky when it comes to them. a good fast and with descent amount of cache mechanical drive will perform just fine.
Watching this and commenting via a 1.42ghz G4 eMac, running Tiger. Cheers.
Running a couple of Mini's myself these days but man the G5, makes a lovely side table for a lamp.
Saying the revision used water cooling is a bit misleading. It used a vapor chamber-style heat sync, but a heat sync nonetheless.
10:35 sounds louder than having 100 drones flying above your head
Great video, I was a Linux / Windows nerd during the 90'ies up 'til 2011 when I had my first real run in with MacOS/OSX.
*Good morning from Thailand, Dan! Greta video! love your stuff! Not a fan much of Apple really though, but the video was cool! Amiga then PC!* 💪👍
Man I miss PPC. Imagine if they stuck with it and were basing chips of the later powers that have SMT4+ but Jobs saw ARM, then RISC-V as the future.
So what you’re saying is that a Mac Pro 3,1 door should fit on a G5 case?
Thanks, you made me feel better about considering upgrading my aging mini. If you can do video editing on it, it should be powerful enough for me.
I still have my PowerMac G5 1.8GHz with 8GB RAM!
Adobe CS2 is running very fast, and I play some old games on it while keeping my feets warm. 😃😉 I will try another OS on it, morphOS or the other one.
I have one of these. Question is... How can I connect a modern high-res display monitor to it? All the displays these days have HDMI connectivity which apparently requires an adapter to hook up to a "display port" but the G5 doesn't have the kind of display port that is required. I'm confused. Any help???
Been using mine for retro gaming.
Pci-X, not Express, VERY different. Also, you didn't put a link to the OS in your description... :/
It's pretty, but no-one bested SGI in case design.
6:08 Those aren't PCI-Express slots matey, they are PCI X which is basically PCI for 64bit computers.
I just found one these omw to my grandma's sitting abonded I took with an old hydraulic car jack
10:22 it sounds just like the OG Xbox 360 with delta fans
Great video. Thanks for sharing, I also dream of a. G5. Before it was introduced I did not want Apple do go that route, because I knew it was hot and optimized for the server environment and the loss of altivect (Power 4). The G5 did have Altivect to my surprise, limited, but great. I loved the machine and used it at the University. Power: Yes that is an issue, and for most people running an hot Ryzen with an NVIDIA. 200+ watts gpu makes no sense and it's just irresponsible.
Great video Dan! I loved it!
Somehow I never thought about how the base install being 9GB necessitated a dual layer DVD. I wonder if Snow Leopard went back to a single layer since they bragged about the Intel-only code saving 4-5GB of disk space.
Can the G5 run the latest Logic pro X, if not, does it have the adjustable capacity too? Thank you
I have rare apple workgroup servers and the first one workgroup server 60 and I still use a g5 to convert vhs then I export the file to modern macs.
Just bought soft soft! So excited to get started!!
handy for resetuping s or creating karaoke tracks. Thanks for the recomndation!
Does Rosetta work in Sorbet Leopard OS?
I miss Cover Flow. It is the BEST way to browse files!!!!!!
All it needs is some VR.
I have two of them, both got locally for free. One of them works, its power supply uses a server lead for power from factory. The other doesn't work. I really should make some use of the working one as i never did anything with it.
I'm in the same situation I have two too. One I got free that was faulty but I can't remember how I got the working one. It would have been free to very cheap but can't remember the details. Saying that I've done nothing with them. They are in a spare room waiting for attention. Planning to sort them out and try to get one good working machine out of the two.
am i blind, or did you forget to post the snow leopard link here? ha.
Mine (2005) still works fine.
Ah the old PowerPC's, part computer, part space heater.
Sometimes I wonder if they'd kept up on the G5 for a bit longer (Maybe Snow Leopard or Lion) if it wouldn't still be more useful. Also, it would have been nicer to get some video cards that were just a bit more capable. They came with fairly low end cards even back when they were new, and I feel that really hurt them. I still have my 1.6Ghz G5 in the closet, and I'd love to make use of it, but there's just not much you can do short of hobby stuff. I definitely enjoyed the video! I love these old machines. Fun fact: My first Mac was an iBook G3 from 2002/2003 as well!
Even if Apple would have wanted to soldier through with the G5 for some years, Intel's achievements with P6 would've left the G5 in the dust, they couldn't afford to such ridicule.
Besides, the problem with PowerPC towards the end of its run on Mac Hardware wasn't just technical: the AIM Alliance was on the verge of break-up (Apple and IBM couldn't agree on the progression of the architecture, and Motorola left and spun off its subsidiary; this could jeopardize the supply agreements and any future developments).
Thanks for the tutorial
I had one of the first PowerMac with the Intel CPUs that had the same case. Was a great machine
maybe that one is Mac Pro
I had a similar g4, 2001/2002, Mac OS X.1, "Aqua Interface" Cinema Display, with the "Cheesegrater" unit. Fun!
Power Mac G4 did have the nice feature of easy access to the motherboard. Most modern machines leave it vertical.
I found one at a swap meet for $30 did I do good?
Leopard was by far my favorite OSX
Dan thanks for the video. So in terms of speed, is this slower thank a stock 500 or 600 when running Morphos for 68k apps?
Is the RAM still available these days?
why didnt you talk about what gpu was in that g5 mac?
Would the newer OS work on a G4 E-Mac ?
As an American sometimes I’ll hear “al u minium” and it won’t instantly register as aluminum lol obviously visually I can tell but before it clicks it’s like learning about a new alloy 😂
I was a big British top gear fan so you’d think It’d be burned into my brain by now but sometimes not lol
Love the g5 I have a single processor dual core model that I currently can’t find it’s server grade power cable for so going to buy a new one. I have a 1st gen Mac Pro as well that Ive upgraded to max ram and dual quads currently run Linux on it.
10:32 Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready for takeoff. 🛫
Regret selling mine but needed both the space and cash back when kids came along.
This was a fine computer plagued with heat problems.
The Frank Lloyd Wright of computers.
I have a g5 all in one, 2008, 17" Tiger, great system!
No "Cheesegrater" unit
No "cheese grater" but I had a g4, yes a "cheese grater" Mac!
Is it possible to run Linux on the G5
Unless you do this purely for nostalgia purposes, I would personally rather go for a Linux distribution with older Macs, which enables you to still use the old hardware while coming with up to date software, solving a multitude of compatibility and security issues. I did that with an older MacBook Air, which was barely usable with the latest supported MacOS, but feels much more responsive with Pop!_OS. I’m not sure how well the PPC architecture is supported by Linux, though, and how capable a device that old is to actually run modern software.
The Power Mac G5s are not that power intensive by today's standards. I used a Kill a Watt meter on mine back in the day, and it would idle around 120W and push 250W under heavy CPU load. Compare that to my modern PC with an AMD 5950X CPU and NVIDIA 3090 GPU: idles at 100W and pulls over 700W under load!
Gotta say cooling has come a long way since 2003: my PC makes far less noise than the Power Mac did, whilst producing 3x more heat. Not to mention what more work can be done with all that energy.
There is a version of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for PowerPC also.
Interesting. Will check this fact.
i think Hugh Jeffreys is still using it
FireWire and WaterString
Lol when I start I go save and I have to at least spend 100 dollars so it doesn’t delete
When macs were still assembled in USA
Upgrade her to 8 Gigs and an SSD drive and she probably will still feel pretty zippy!
They don't like SSDs so much. I seem to recall MacOS would not even install and had to DD an image and in the end it was little better as even then MacOS was doing a good caching job. I wish someone would explain why Windows never keeps just caching more and more and prefers to just leave memory doing nothing. The OS and interface were limiting the performance on the G5. The best setup I had was a single partition striped over two physical drives.
Yea sure but more with Linux than OSX. Not a Windows fan at all, and generally am a computer builder. Not that I dislike OSX, just dislike Apple's way of discontinuing everything like 3 or so years later.
And that pci-x 64bit not pci-e
Wallpaper from Morphos
my dad pulled one out of the trash thing weighs like 90 pounds ancient hunk of junk lol.
You sound a lot like Jony Ive (not just cause you’re British but have other similar vocal characteristics)
Tell me you’re deaf without signing that you’re deaf
@@RebornAudio you’re nice.