Getting rid of my last PPC Mac!

[MattG]

I'm excited! I've got several Macs that on use on a daily basis...one at each of my two offices, a laptop, and one at home. I had one PPC Mac left (my DP 1.8Ghz G5 in one of my offices), and I was just given permission to replace it with a new Mac Pro! Kind of weird how it happened too -- I had a PC in my office in addition to the G5, and the PC died. I asked if I could just replace the PC with another beater that we had lying around, and I was told I could buy a new one if I wanted to. I opted to buy a new Mac instead because I'd be able to run Windows on it and just have one box in the office instead of two, and they said okay!

So, I just ordered a Mac Pro DP 2.66, with dual optical drives, and ordered an additional 1GB of RAM for it elsewhere. Can't wait!!!

 

[pianoman]

sounds like a cool setup. congratulations!

 

[Teh Don Ditty]

got to love getting a new toy! congrats!

 

[smurfjammer]

Useful Computer

So what are your plans for the G5? Selling it or keeping it

 

[Teh Don Ditty]

good question! Looks like it belongs to his company though. Maybe he can wrangle it away from them.

 

[MattG]

So what are your plans for the G5? Selling it or keeping it

I work for a college and we are just getting started with a design/drafting program. They are slowly buying Macs, a few every year. My old one is just going to be rolled down to them.

 

[Sdashiki]

So what are your plans for the G5? Selling it or keeping it

ive got a similar G5 powermac for sale....

just sounded like you are interested i one.



though you being a Kiwi, kills the shipping costs.

 

[MattG]

Okay so now I have a techincal question:

My old G5 has a secondary SATA drive that I want to put in the new one. I noticed the Mac Pro uses 3Gb/s Serial ATA connections, which I'm assuming is faster than the ones in the old G5. Is it backwards compatible though? Can I put the SATA from my G5 into the Mac Pro?

 

[JohnMC]

Okay so now I have a techincal question:

My old G5 has a secondary SATA drive that I want to put in the new one. I noticed the Mac Pro uses 3Gb/s Serial ATA connections, which I'm assuming is faster than the ones in the old G5. Is it backwards compatible though? Can I put the SATA from my G5 into the Mac Pro?

Yes, SATA 1.5Gbps is compatible with the new 3.0Gbps connections in the new Mac Pro. Just plug and play.

JohnMC

 

[MattG]

Yes, SATA 1.5Gbps is compatible with the new 3.0Gbps connections in the new Mac Pro. Just plug and play.

JohnMC

Wonderful -- thanks!