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My friend is still rocking a 5,1 since release day, but you're right they never appear.
Baloney! I see one (nearly) everyday... it's my sister's.
Hers is the 2.0, though, upgraded to 8GB RAM and a 120GB SSD. Still running Snow Leopard, though - she likes it and doesn't want to upgrade. Plus, my preacher's wife has one that I recommended her to buy, too - it's identical to my sis's, except we only upgraded one of her memory sticks (5GB total).I wish I could post my About This Mac... but I'm at work, staring down Windows Vista
. Mine is a 09 mini server, 8GB of RAM, 2.53 C2D, with a 120GB SSD and 500GB hard drive, plus a 4TB RAID mirrored external, running Snow Leopard. Planning to upgrade to Mavericks this summer.EDIT: For kicks and giggles, check this awesomeness out!
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My "new" Power Mac G5 that I bought as an end-of-semester reward for myself. Came with no RAM or hard drives. It's a dualcore 2.3GHz, and I put 8GB of DDR2 in it, and replaced the GeForce 6600 with a Radeon X1950XT 256MB that I flashed with a Mac bios. For the boot drive, I put in a 36GB WD Raptor that I've had laying around. Not as fast as an SSD, but not too shabby either, especially on SATA rev. 1. Storage drive is a 2TB Samsung that has a couple of reallocated sectors; I didn't trust it enough to put it to use in any of my important systems, but I figured I'd give it a shot in the G5, and it seems to be doing just fine. Not the most extreme G5 out there, but I'd like to think it's pretty beastly for what it is.
Posted it before but not recently with my new peripheral toys, too bad it doesn't have an audio tab as well. Not that I have a DAC or anything, just a really nice selection for an amateur audiophile.
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Here is mine, for the Mac I'm using at the moment. This would've been funner if I was using my Power Mac G4, or even more interesting if I was using my iMac G3. But my G3 is dead. So I can't.
As you can see, it isn't blazing fast. I'd upgrade it to 4GB of RAM, but I'm too poor to do it right now. Technically the limit in this iMac is 3GB, but it will work faster on 4GB. Yeah, I'm lame for using an old iMac, but whatever. I like putting old computers to use.
(Yes, I've cleverly painted over my serial in white)
And, the revelation as to what I'm using. I know, sad. This is unfortunately a defective model. The '06 iMacs were known for defective GPUs. I found a workaround that would disable the GPU so I could use the computer without any freezing, rebooting or graphical anomalies that are associated with the GPU problems, but the downside is that I cannot watch videos, run iMovie and many animations are slow. But other than that, the machine actually operates decently fast.
As you can see, it isn't blazing fast. I'd upgrade it to 4GB of RAM, but I'm too poor to do it right now. Technically the limit in this iMac is 3GB, but it will work faster on 4GB. Yeah, I'm lame for using an old iMac, but whatever. I like putting old computers to use.
(Yes, I've cleverly painted over my serial in white)
And, the revelation as to what I'm using. I know, sad. This is unfortunately a defective model. The '06 iMacs were known for defective GPUs. I found a workaround that would disable the GPU so I could use the computer without any freezing, rebooting or graphical anomalies that are associated with the GPU problems, but the downside is that I cannot watch videos, run iMovie and many animations are slow. But other than that, the machine actually operates decently fast.
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Sweet config, this is what I'm aiming my spec to be when I have the cash, is it your main machine?
