The 1.8 and dual 2.0 GHz models, both with a 160 GB hard drive and 512 MB of RAM, sold for 23 respectively. The 1.6 GHz model, with an 80 GB hard drive and 256 MB of RAM, sold for 1999. I'm sure that a PowerPC Mac can be used for Video and Audio production in 2018, but it would be very modest. There were three configurations for the PowerMac G5. What about obscure personal use? It's way harder to come of with a what if for that, but in my personal case, I was about 16-17 and had order a PowerBook G4, along with a new gaming pc, I was very curious about the PowerPC Mac's at the time, and figured it should work as an ok laptop, and was only $200 at the time, but the PowerBook came in the mail way sooner than the Gaming PC, so I had to find games that worked on it, the game I played the most on it was Quake 3, I have really bad internet and nothing else to do, but could have lots of fun playing the bots in Quake 3 to pass the time.
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I had the thought of their obscure uses is lower end communicates / countries, and the randomness of the hands they must have fallen into to obtain a PowerPC Mac and then to make use of it, I could easily see businesses using the computers for every day use, and using specific old accounting software, I mean hell if you can run spreadsheet software which there is tons of free and (not) that works on a PowerPC Mac that could drastically transform your business. I live in a Middle Class area in America.
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You have to be lucky enough or find a download link to get any of the old software that ran on, but those things, that work, that used to be done on these computers, isn't as valuable in the world I live in today. The functionality for which they where made for and used for during their time, they can still do.
That does not mean that PowerPC Macs aren't useful, and don't have use. Native support for 32-bit application code. PowerPC processor architecture with 64-bit data paths and registers.
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It can be valuable if you have no other option though, and I have absolutely no data, but I feel like what is happening right now is that people are getting these laptops for very cheap / for free and trying to make use of them since they have no other option, in with the world working on the internet it's very hard to make use of them to do modern things. Single 1.8GHz, dual 1.8 GHz, dual 2GHz or dual 2.5GHz 64-bit PowerPC G5 microprocessors. In 2018 this is not the case, a PowerPC Mac isn't close to worth compared to any Chromebook, Smartphone, or low end Laptop on the market, or in a used local market pretty much everywhere in the western world. I have a new mac on the way, but Im wondering what would be the easiest/cheapest way to access my files on the old iMac.
As a result it wont get past the start up screen when booting. I have an iMac G5 with a broken graphics card. It's no surprise that with every passing year PowerPC Mac's become ever more obsolete as do all computers, but for a brief period around 2012-2014 they saw a reamergence because of their price point, which made them a legitimate financial option despite their limited functionality. PowerPC :: Accessing A Disabled IMac G5s Hard Drive Jul 25, 2008.
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