Hey,
I have an old Power Mac g5 gathering dust at home, and I was asking myself:
“What can I do with this old man ?”
I first thought of just taking the case, but it’s not optimal to build a PC :P
It is also too much power consuming to make it a sever.
Do you have any idea ?
Thanks !
send it back to apple. what waste of resources for some contemporay bs.
Can you remove the innards and put something current in it?
Or is it built in a way that it’s forever useless?
It’s not forever useless, but it requires a fair bit of fabrication.
I passed on one years ago because it looked like way too much of a project. If I remember correctly, nothing would fit stock and the case was somehow divided by a bunch of stuff that would have to be cut away.
Hold down a decent pile of paper? Block a door from squeaking open when the house settles in the night? Keep a cat from rolling down a gentle hill? Make a child cry when they unwrap it some holiday morning?
Years and years ago when I had one and Apple had stopped supporting - I got a copy of Linux and installed it and ran a Minecraft server for a while on it.
Unfortunately, not many linux distros support PowerPC and Minecraft is now way to heavy for this old hardware…
Around 15 years ago when my college was decommissioning them we used them as doorstops in the IT department.