New uses for old computers?

Alright boys, I got about 30 some of these G5 machines. What can or should I do with them?
They are various models in various conditions, but all of them are G5s. I just want to know what's possible, irrelevant of what's practical

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Gentoo can run on anything

Send them to me

Cluster dem.

Send me a PSU, mine's dead. But really, use a quad as your desktop and upgrade the RAM to 16GiB and use the rest as a beowulf cluster

gut them and sell the parts and cases on ebay people pay top dollar for hackintoshing those cases

Eat shit and die.

He's right though, we're talking machines that are what, 13 years old now? In tech terms they're museum pieces.

The only ones that should be used for hackintoshes are broken ones. Functional ones are still great machines

Macshit was never functional though, so they're all fair game.

Sell them if you can. They consume huge amounts of power. produce a bunch of heat, and the fastest dual core machines are slower than a Raspberry Pi 3.

xD

This. They did nothing that an Intel machine didn't do better, so there's no reason to keep them for any retro computing.

But the fact that they're not Intel machines makes them inherently better

G5 is the Bentium 4 with Hyperbibeline of PowerPC.
It's so bad not even Apple and their "Our designers were so busy with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" mentality didn't manage to stuff it in a laptop.

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I want one so hard...

It's also the last line of mainstream non-x86 workstations, these things are important. They're also not too bad of machines. I mean sure the G5 wasn't fit for laptops until Apple already started transitioning to x86 but that doesn't mean they're bad workstations.

Back when apple produced art that actually worked...

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well obviously take parts from the best and make one mega G5, just max the bitch out
for the rest, honestly not much, theyre worth more in parts than they are all together though, PSU's if functional can be good money makers, the cases sell quick if theyre in good shape, if theyre in bad shape its better to just scrap them, people who buy those cases dont want beat up ones

Yep, PSU s are difficult to find. My G4 MDD blew and a replacement was more than 100€ from eBay

Sell me one :(

What a fucking waste!

even a maxed out G5 won't do much
they're also very loud

You might now like this answer, but here it is: gut and sell

Why gut it and sell it when it can just be sold?

you will make more pesos

And be a douche in the process

>waaaaah capitalism is bad.. i need that G5 more than OP!!

Were you trying to make sense? Because you didn't do a very good job.

I got a pallet of these a few years back in various condition. Paid $180 including freight for 24 of these things. Like the other user said, I pulled parts to make 2 mega G5s, maxed out another 2 for parts, so I had 14 fully functional machines left. I parted out some of them and sold a few that I could get back up to spec or better and after shipping and tax I ended up making just over $5,200 on a $220 investment. The extra money was for parts and such for the other machines.

Don't hold on to all of them, they're power hungry and a lot of the water cooled units are just disasters waiting to happen unless you're willing to do some extra work. Beef up a few machines, keep some parts, then sell the rest. Most of my money was made parting out vs selling entire machines.

then do explain how OP would be a "douche in the process"

Tell sell well on ebay.
Network attached storage.
They make a nice case for a modern pc.

He'd be parting them out instead of giving a bunch of people opportunities to get functional PowerMac G5s

fucing retarded. regardless of whether or not you like apple, those machines sell for several hundred dollars still on ebay. bare bones it would still sell for a prett penny.

which one is more important, OP "giving a bunch of people opportunities" or OP maximising profit?
Why does the other make OP a douche in the process?

>which one is more important
The prior
>Why does the other make OP a douche in the process?
Selfishness

>The prior
No
>Selfishness
Literally not an argument

>No
Wrong
>LALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU
Are you literally twelve?

Is this that macpro with dual PowerPC CPU that is noisy as fuck but is pretty fast for its age?

Some had dual processors, some didn't. They are the machines you're thinking of, PowerMac G5s.

look nigga, OP getting money from things he own for whatever purposes he might have is more important than giving strangers on the internet a chance to build obsolete hardware
Reasons for OP maximising profit:
>paying for his sick mother's hospital bills
>finally buying that engagement ring
>literally anything you could imagine

Reasons for OP selling it as-is:
>"it's not selfish :^)"
>some asshole gets a piece of obsolete tech

>OP getting money from things he own for whatever purposes he might have is more important than giving strangers on the internet a chance to build obsolete hardware
I disagree. These things are overpriced as fuck and he got a ton of them for most likely cheap if not free, he can undercut all the dicks and sell them for what they should cost. I mean, shit, a G5 quad goes for $400+ last I checked.

sell them on ebay ez profit
or a museum, they'll offer more

Why the fuck would a museum buy them off OP for more than they could be had online? They're not über rare or anything, they're just 10 year old workstations.

What would be the profit of gutting and selling?
That's also requires time and work.

I usually sell all my older machines that are not in production anymore as-is because I don't like the idea of destroying technology that can't be replaced. I still make fucktons of money, because people actually buy them, because as-is is actually more important to most people then hipsters who just want a case.

g5 cases are actually cool to mod

not how it works for this shit

everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_2.0_dp.html
everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_2.5_dp.html
everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_2.7_dp.html
everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_quad_2.5.html (or really any dual-core model is good)
These are the best of the best of their respective generations, find a nice one and keep it for yourself, sell the rest to good homes that will probably make it worth your while if they're in good shape. OS X 10.4 is generally a great choice for them, giving you access to commercial staples as well as free and current software where it matters, including an actively maintained port of Firefox. OpenBSD is also a solid choice, Debian too although I believe support is being discontinued.

In general, they'll still do pretty much whatever they did when they were worth four figures. General productivity, most web surfing, 2D content creation. High-resolution video is going to be ass, but that's only one use for a computer after all. Try something new. They weren't the best of the best for their time (but it's not like it matters when it's all old shit anyway) but they were still decent systems, and they look damn nicely engineered on top of it.

It's hardly that easy. Your critics are right in saying that it's a shit ton of work parting things out and selling them, you'd get more attention with a full system than a bunch of proprietary modules that rarely fail or need replacement on their own, plus you wouldn't have to deal with categorizing, storing and listing each individual component, and then sitting on it for fucking months while you wait for the right buyer to come along. It's way more effort for not really more gain, better off just getting a real job in the first place.

But as far as the idea of parting out in general, whatever. It's a shame, but they made millions of these things.

That looks so good

Send them to Druaga1

He's a retard

>I got about 30 some of these G5 machines
Use them as space heaters. Seriously the G5 CPUs where awful, and there isn't a whole lot of interesting software on the Power PC versions OS X. Unless you can get Mac OS 9 running on it and play some older games.

Maybe keep one for the sake owning it and sell the rest. If you'd had managed to get 30 first or second generation Mac Pros it would have been a whole different story, since they're actually still useable on day to day basis.