Wednesday, October 10, 2012

My new PowerMac G5 SP 1.6 GHz

I really looked forward to this. I got my first Power Macintosh G5! It's first version of Apple aluminium super computer, its design was not necessary to change to this day because it is still timeless. It's succesor, Mac Pro, is only little different when it comes to design. It is now 10 years since this computer was made and there still isn't computer that can beat it.
My new PowerMac is the very first model that was ever made -
single processor PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz from September 2003. This toy weighs over 17 kilograms!

Configuration:
EDIT: I no longer have this Mac.


My photo of this beautiful computer
The front panel



I've bought it with 80 GB hard drive and 2 GB of Ram memory, it cost more than 50 000 CZK at this configuration when it was introduced.

The back side
I had two 1 GB modules free and I put them in this Mac so I reached the maximum capacity of memory in this model - 4 GB.

From the side
Without air deflector
I learned here how to boot Mac OS X from USB flash drive even if it doesn't have native USB boot support. You have to start up your computer in Open Firmware mode (hold Command-Option-O-F on startup) and write some commands for successful boot. I used this manual.

I got plenty of accessories too

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