Is The Power Mac G5 Really Obsolete?

Comments · 545

• PI

  @PiggyPorkchop · 1 year ago (edited)

  Every few years YouTube puts a video on my homepage about using the G5 in current year, glad to see some things never change.

  545

• JA

  @Jackpkmn · 1 year ago

  The Chromium thing made me laugh out loud for real. "I don't want to get shot in the foot so I reached for a giant cannon to shoot at my feet instead."

  97

• BL

  @blue82700 · 1 year ago

  My college uses these things to hold up the benches in the buildings- 😂

  256

• MA

  @marksokolovsky1995 · 1 year ago (edited)

  You actually can use SSDs on here, I've had a stable config on my Dual 2.0 7,2 2003 since late 2019: a 960 GB RAID0 Array using 4x 240 GB Sandisk SSD Plus, gets ~450 MB/s read and 385 MB/s write right on the boot drive! Using a seritek SATA PCI RAID0 card, too. I wrote about this on low end Mac. Nice video!

  168

• BL

  @blooder81 · 1 year ago

  Needs a clean and new thermal paste!

  44

• CO

  @colinstu · 1 year ago (edited)

  It's funny... way back sometime 2014-2015 we had a customer who dropped off her Powermac G5 and she "wanted it upgraded" and refused to get any newer machine. So we maxed out the ram and put an SSD in too, it was definitely peppier, but even by then it was starting to show its age in web browser use. That was only a dual core machine and no high end GPU so that didn't help, but the fact a Core 2 Duo could crush it still and were a dime-a-dozen back then, ouch. If she's still alive a decade later I sure hope she moved to some apple silicon.

  73

• LK

  @LKComputes · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuTug2jBSOY&amp;t=755">12:35</a> Some 2005 PPC Macs can actually boot from GPT because of their newer Open Firmware, so what you read was technically true, but for the most part not applicable.

  24

• GR

  @GravartyZWEI · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuTug2jBSOY&amp;t=122">2:02</a> not entirely true since a beta build of Snow Leopard for PowerPC was leaked a few years ago and the PPC community keeps fixing things to make it more stable.

  83

• DE

  @Denuwu · 1 year ago

  Technically you can install 10.6 on PPC as there&apos;s a beta that was leaked online some time ago

  20

• UR

  @UrkiMimi · 1 year ago

  I remember having a dual-cpu config back in 2019 to toy around with and the CPUs would sometimes not recognize or the system would kernel panic outright lmao

  22

• AN

  @AnotherLotte · 1 year ago

  You&apos;re the second person I&apos;ve gotten to witness compiling and installing Gentoo on PPC. hella nice, I wish I had gotten to keep a Mac Mini G4 a customer had asked me if it was worth anything. I offered them like, $80 and the refused it kept the thing in a non-functional state. Which sucks, because I had gotten it to boot with a SATA M.2 SSD to IDE converter, and I played around with it for a few days, I really wanted to keep it.

  39

• MU

  @murata4244 · 1 year ago

  Dude that is a steal to find it at a thrift store for only 25 dollars and it still be working. You struck gold

  20