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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.
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
I got one of these as soon as it came out. I believed the hype. I got the top-spec dual 2.0GHz G5. Spent a bloody fortune on it. The logic board died 3.5 years later.
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.)
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.
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 I remember droooooling over the G5 back in the day. Could not afford it. But I actually did have the chance to buy a first generation Intel Mac Pro though my first job. I still remember being amazed by the engineering and quality of the case alone. No sharp edges, everything fits and feels heavy and premium and professional. It's even beautiful on the inside. Gorgeous, even. Such a great computer it was.
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 still use my Quad G5 today to run old graphic arts software that still works well for me. The main reason that I bought it used many years ago is bc it is the fastest Mac that can run the Classic environment, even faster than a Classic-native machine could.
I’ve got a Quad Core G5 and I’ll be completely honest all I’ve ever run on it is MorphOS. Definitely the best MorphOS machine out there as I’ve also got a MacMini G4 and PowerBook G4 so I’ve got something to compare it to.
Is MorphOS capable of using all 4 cores? I'd be tempted to buy a copy for one of my G5s, but I'd hate to spend the money if it really can't take advantage of multi processing.
@@insaneiaq None of the "next gen" Amiga operating systems are multi-core yet I'm afraid. The reason the Quad G4 is best for Morphos is the DDR2 ram and the PCIe graphics that speed it up a bit. Plus the advantage that the Quad's cooling system is more reliable than the older dual core G5's.
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.
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 have an 05 dual processor sitting by my desk because the applications on it, I own, I don't have to rent them like you do on newer machines, and Photoshop ect still work fine.
just to add, the liquid cooling on the later G5 was insane because it used automobile grade coolant, Dex Cool, which it was surprising because it is corrosive. also. nice to hear there is gonna be a new video of someone running MorphOS and on a G5. i was literally looking for a recent video of someone running it on a G5 a few days ago. MorphOS always have mystified me and i never had the chance to use it
I've started looking on eBay. I want a maxed-out quad. A beautifully designed system IMHO, back when Apple still got the need to elegantly design form, function and upgradeability. I doubt I'll ever own one, but I still feel this is a truly iconic Workstation
If you're looking for the best one, try and find a dual 2.7 GHz. I've got the dual 2.7 and a quad 2.5 GHz one, for most purposes the 2.7 GHz machine is faster. That being said, check either model out before you buy, the coolant systems in these things leak and destroy the logic board. Happy hunting!
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.
we did have the same G5 in my agency and I had to use it a few times due to some old hardware that only ran on that system. Man...this really made me apcreciate all the modern stuff like SSD we got nowadays.
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 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 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
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!
Just got my G5 back after a 10 years. I don't have a DVI-D converter on hand so hoping it works well - the fans are running and the light is on so that's positive! I hope it still has FCP installed along all the goodies that are too numerous to mention! Thanks for your video. Long Live the PowerMac G5! (FWIW: I purchased mine in 2004)
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.
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 bought my june 2004 Dual 2.5ghz a little over a year ago, I rebuilt the LCS and cleaned up the leaked coolant and then proceeded to max out everything ram and nvidia 6800 ultra DDL video card, I love to run the older Power PC Mac games and mess around with the audio and video editing tools.
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 used one at work when they were first released! I loved the way the fans sounded - felt like a big cat sitting next to me! A real beast of a machine !
I bought a dual 2.5GHz one of these back when I could barely afford it - it was great for code building. But 1 week after its warranty expired, it leaked coolant all over itself and burned out both processors. The coolant heavily corroded the inside of the machine, destroying its beauty in the process. Shame - I would've still had that as a show piece to this day if I could - it was beautifully designed.
9:50 - those Macs often "can't detect the temperature" when in sleep mode - for whatever reasons, but it happens. Sometimes it takes hours, sometimes it happens five or ten minutes after "going to sleep" - the take-off mode kicks in, and the only thing you can do is to force shut it.
I own the PowerMac G5 with the Dual 1,8 GHz CPU, 6 GB DDR SDRAM and FX 5200 GPU, which runs on Mac OSX 10.5.9 Sorbet Leopard. I mainly use it for old school gaming and music production. I installed games like Warcraft III, The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 (NoCD patch doesn‘t work for me on Sims 2 unfortunately) and DAWs like Logic Pro 8 and Ableton Live 7, which surprisingly ran fine.
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.
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'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
after you mentioned it, I found that adjustment wheel under my Pro Mouse, and I have to say: thanks for the hint! and it actually does something. turned to the right the click is heavier, turned to the very left, it is much easier to click. I acutally set it to easy-click now.
When i was in college, we used to bring our macbook pro remotes into our lecture hall (300+ seats) and point the remote up and press PLAY. It caused all the macs to start playing the first song in iTunes. I was a horrible person lol.
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.
I've still got my Dual 2 Ghz G5. It still works as well as the day I first had it. I'm loathed to get rid of it as I always loved the machine - the build quality and attention to detail is impeccable. Sadly it's been gathering dust under my desk for some time though... Maybe I'll give that Sorbet Leopard a try to give it a new lease of life! Great video!!
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. 😄
I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this but the reason the fans ramp up like that is that they need to be recalibrated with the ASD (Apple Service Diagnostics disk for the machine.
I remember having one of these with a leaking water cooling loop. The fans sounded essentially like a turbofan jet engine on an aeroplane at full speed
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!
I just finished my job training as a media designer in 2003, so I remember using this Mac from while I was still working as a media designer. IIRC this was also the time, when we left QuarkXPress behind and went with Indesign instead. Later on, we got some fancy new flatscreen monitors as an upgrade, as well as an upgrade to OSX - what a wild ride it was. After that, Macs were banished from our agency completely, as Dell workstations with Windows were far cheaper for the performance of a similar priced Mac.
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.
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…
Stick an M1 Mini in there (I mean there is plenty of room,you may not even have to remove anything) and enjoy that nostalgic look with contemporary performance.
Great video. I own a PowerMac G5 that I’ve maxed out but not enough time lately to tinker with. I’ll download Sorbet one of these day since I’m curious about it. Also have 30” Mac monitor with it
@Dan Wood Correction! According to the developer of Sorbet Leopard, no code from the PPC beta of Snow Leopard was used. He began development before the leak even occurred. This is a totally original modification based on only 10.5.8.
I was just gifted a Power Mac G5, I’ve always used Apple’s all-in-one desktops, but since this was collecting dust, I figured I’d take it! Setting it up now, and I hope it’s at least semi-functional 😆😅🔥
Still got my Dual Processor G5 too, though it's currently configured as an Xbox 360 Alpha 2 devkit. What do you usually do with yours when it's not in use? Does it stay in storage?
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.
Hi Dan I wonder if you can help identify my G5 Mac tower as you seem to be a Mac Guru and have had them all. I am trying to replace the PRAM battery in my G5 Tower Mac that I haven't used for years but need to get going to use the firewire ports for my scanner. The inside of mine doesn't look like the one in your video. When I take the side panel off I see 4 hard drive bays where I think the battery housing is in your video. Yours is the same as an iFix video on battery replacement. Any pointers would be great . Thanks Geoff
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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.
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. 😅
I got one of these as soon as it came out. I believed the hype. I got the top-spec dual 2.0GHz G5. Spent a bloody fortune on it. The logic board died 3.5 years later.
Mine did too. Probably after similar time.
Calling a motherboard a logic board always sounds so weird.
Haven’t laughed all day but that did it. Thank you.
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.)
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.
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 I remember droooooling over the G5 back in the day. Could not afford it. But I actually did have the chance to buy a first generation Intel Mac Pro though my first job. I still remember being amazed by the engineering and quality of the case alone. No sharp edges, everything fits and feels heavy and premium and professional. It's even beautiful on the inside. Gorgeous, even. Such a great computer it was.
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'm excited to see you testing MorphOS.
Sure, the G5 is a sucker for energy but the idea of bringing new life to old tech still fascinates me.
I still use my Quad G5 today to run old graphic arts software that still works well for me. The main reason that I bought it used many years ago is bc it is the fastest Mac that can run the Classic environment, even faster than a Classic-native machine could.
I’ve got a Quad Core G5 and I’ll be completely honest all I’ve ever run on it is MorphOS. Definitely the best MorphOS machine out there as I’ve also got a MacMini G4 and PowerBook G4 so I’ve got something to compare it to.
Is MorphOS capable of using all 4 cores? I'd be tempted to buy a copy for one of my G5s, but I'd hate to spend the money if it really can't take advantage of multi processing.
@@insaneiaq None of the "next gen" Amiga operating systems are multi-core yet I'm afraid. The reason the Quad G4 is best for Morphos is the DDR2 ram and the PCIe graphics that speed it up a bit. Plus the advantage that the Quad's cooling system is more reliable than the older dual core G5's.
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
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?
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 have an 05 dual processor sitting by my desk because the applications on it, I own, I don't have to rent them like you do on newer machines, and Photoshop ect still work fine.
just to add, the liquid cooling on the later G5 was insane because it used automobile grade coolant, Dex Cool, which it was surprising because it is corrosive.
also. nice to hear there is gonna be a new video of someone running MorphOS and on a G5. i was literally looking for a recent video of someone running it on a G5 a few days ago.
MorphOS always have mystified me and i never had the chance to use it
I've started looking on eBay. I want a maxed-out quad. A beautifully designed system IMHO, back when Apple still got the need to elegantly design form, function and upgradeability. I doubt I'll ever own one, but I still feel this is a truly iconic Workstation
If you're looking for the best one, try and find a dual 2.7 GHz. I've got the dual 2.7 and a quad 2.5 GHz one, for most purposes the 2.7 GHz machine is faster. That being said, check either model out before you buy, the coolant systems in these things leak and destroy the logic board. Happy hunting!
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.
we did have the same G5 in my agency and I had to use it a few times due to some old hardware that only ran on that system. Man...this really made me apcreciate all the modern stuff like SSD we got nowadays.
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 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 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.
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!
Just got my G5 back after a 10 years. I don't have a DVI-D converter on hand so hoping it works well - the fans are running and the light is on so that's positive! I hope it still has FCP installed along all the goodies that are too numerous to mention! Thanks for your video. Long Live the PowerMac G5! (FWIW: I purchased mine in 2004)
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.
Down in my heart, I still have hope for PowerPC.
Here is an iMac G5 user, yes, its possible, Office on MacOS X and Wayfarer and Iris on MOS :)
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 bought my june 2004 Dual 2.5ghz a little over a year ago, I rebuilt the LCS and cleaned up the leaked coolant and then proceeded to max out everything ram and nvidia 6800 ultra DDL video card, I love to run the older Power PC Mac games and mess around with the audio and video editing tools.
I have. G5 and it still looks great, I used a LC 475 to put a 113 page magazine together, great video nicely done!
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 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.
still the greatest retro channel of all time !
I used one at work when they were first released! I loved the way the fans sounded - felt like a big cat sitting next to me! A real beast of a machine !
I bought a dual 2.5GHz one of these back when I could barely afford it - it was great for code building. But 1 week after its warranty expired, it leaked coolant all over itself and burned out both processors. The coolant heavily corroded the inside of the machine, destroying its beauty in the process. Shame - I would've still had that as a show piece to this day if I could - it was beautifully designed.
9:50 - those Macs often "can't detect the temperature" when in sleep mode - for whatever reasons, but it happens. Sometimes it takes hours, sometimes it happens five or ten minutes after "going to sleep" - the take-off mode kicks in, and the only thing you can do is to force shut it.
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 own the PowerMac G5 with the Dual 1,8 GHz CPU, 6 GB DDR SDRAM and FX 5200 GPU, which runs on Mac OSX 10.5.9 Sorbet Leopard. I mainly use it for old school gaming and music production. I installed games like Warcraft III, The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 (NoCD patch doesn‘t work for me on Sims 2 unfortunately) and DAWs like Logic Pro 8 and Ableton Live 7, which surprisingly ran fine.
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...
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.
Was hoping you would upload again. Definitely not disappointed. Love me some Apple goodness.
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
after you mentioned it, I found that adjustment wheel under my Pro Mouse, and I have to say: thanks for the hint! and it actually does something. turned to the right the click is heavier, turned to the very left, it is much easier to click. I acutally set it to easy-click now.
When i was in college, we used to bring our macbook pro remotes into our lecture hall (300+ seats) and point the remote up and press PLAY. It caused all the macs to start playing the first song in iTunes. I was a horrible person lol.
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.
I've still got my Dual 2 Ghz G5. It still works as well as the day I first had it. I'm loathed to get rid of it as I always loved the machine - the build quality and attention to detail is impeccable. Sadly it's been gathering dust under my desk for some time though... Maybe I'll give that Sorbet Leopard a try to give it a new lease of life! Great video!!
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. 😄
Running a couple of Mini's myself these days but man the G5, makes a lovely side table for a lamp.
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
I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this but the reason the fans ramp up like that is that they need to be recalibrated with the ASD (Apple Service Diagnostics disk for the machine.
*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!* 💪👍
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 remember having one of these with a leaking water cooling loop. The fans sounded essentially like a turbofan jet engine on an aeroplane at full speed
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!
I just finished my job training as a media designer in 2003, so I remember using this Mac from while I was still working as a media designer. IIRC this was also the time, when we left QuarkXPress behind and went with Indesign instead. Later on, we got some fancy new flatscreen monitors as an upgrade, as well as an upgrade to OSX - what a wild ride it was. After that, Macs were banished from our agency completely, as Dell workstations with Windows were far cheaper for the performance of a similar priced Mac.
We've got one. Makes an excellent side table now.
LMAO I did not think to use it as a side table. I have two that a 2' x 4' piece of wood on top makes a great coffee table.
@@barefootuptomysoul And it comes with some storage abilities too.
This computer is way ahead of its time 😊
Really miss my dual G5. Still hoping to get a replacement power supply for it someday. Still have the original Cinema Display for it too…
I consistently see the Powermac G5 Acbel PSUs go for around $40-50 shipped on ebay. Good price.
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.
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
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.
remember my cousin having one of these beautiful machines I;ve been considering getting one even now in 2024
Love the old-era look of MacOS... much much more visual than "minimalistic" of today. Today looks like 1982 C64 GEO.
I bagged a g5 along with a 2009 mac pro today. I was surprised when I opened it and found it had the WiebeTech g5 jam installed.
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
confused when i downloaded and opened soft soft . I couldnt find any good and informative video for beginners to help
Ironic how I was just watching videos about the Power line of Macintoshes!
Saying the revision used water cooling is a bit misleading. It used a vapor chamber-style heat sync, but a heat sync nonetheless.
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.
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…
What a brilliant video. Love the Sorbet update
Still looks modern.
As a note, Sorbet Leopard doesn't use code from the beta. It only uses code from the official Leopard release.
i can see why they switched to intel later on, holy shit look at the size of those cooling blocks!
They actually look nice. Like something one would see on a mainframe.
Stick an M1 Mini in there (I mean there is plenty of room,you may not even have to remove anything) and enjoy that nostalgic look with contemporary performance.
Thanks for the nostalgia, British man!
So what you’re saying is that a Mac Pro 3,1 door should fit on a G5 case?
Watching this and commenting via a 1.42ghz G4 eMac, running Tiger. Cheers.
Is this working with any monitors?
still wish apple offers this as a case option for their current 2019 mac pro, even if one has to order it online
Great video. I own a PowerMac G5 that I’ve maxed out but not enough time lately to tinker with. I’ll download Sorbet one of these day since I’m curious about it. Also have 30” Mac monitor with it
@Dan Wood Correction! According to the developer of Sorbet Leopard, no code from the PPC beta of Snow Leopard was used. He began development before the leak even occurred. This is a totally original modification based on only 10.5.8.
Ah I read that it used the Snow Leopard beta code on a forum, thanks for clarifying.
@@danwood_uk the developer is known as Z970 on the MacRumors forums. Check out the development history. Dedicated guy.
I was just gifted a Power Mac G5, I’ve always used Apple’s all-in-one desktops, but since this was collecting dust, I figured I’d take it! Setting it up now, and I hope it’s at least semi-functional 😆😅🔥
Still got my Dual Processor G5 too, though it's currently configured as an Xbox 360 Alpha 2 devkit.
What do you usually do with yours when it's not in use? Does it stay in storage?
6:08 Those aren't PCI-Express slots matey, they are PCI X which is basically PCI for 64bit computers.
Had an old Imasc G5. Great for rertro games such as Quake.
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.
The dock and icons look stunning for the time and still even better than todays flat, 2D dock
It's pretty, but no-one bested SGI in case design.
现在是2024年，而前些天因为安装AVID HDX系统的MACPRO出问题，我重新启用安装ProTools HD3系统的PowerMacG5工作. 完全没问题哈哈😀
Hi Dan I wonder if you can help identify my G5 Mac tower as you seem to be a Mac Guru and have had them all. I am trying to replace the PRAM battery in my G5 Tower Mac that I haven't used for years but need to get going to use the firewire ports for my scanner. The inside of mine doesn't look like the one in your video. When I take the side panel off I see 4 hard drive bays where I think the battery housing is in your video. Yours is the same as an iFix video on battery replacement. Any pointers would be great . Thanks Geoff
Mine (2005) still works fine.
Been using mine for retro gaming.