PowerMac G5 - Is it Obsolete?

A review of the Apple PowerMac G5 quad core in 2016 to find out if it can still hold up.

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Special Thanks to Les C Deal and Curtis Murray for their help producing this.

[obsoletegeek]

I wanted one of these SO BADLY when they were announced. I still think it's one of Apple's most beautiful case designs.

[MemeFactoryFaculty]

"If you see liquid, unplug and get service" Literally sees liquid spots right next to it.

[themixgenius]

2019 Mac Pro - *cheese grater*
2013 Mac Pro - *trash can*
PowerMac G5 - *SPACE HEATER*

[jaxsonzeis]

Epic dad look. The whole outfit and the face he makes carrying it. The slouch. It’s amazing keep doing what you’re doing.

[EVRLYNMedia]

that's some overclocked core i9 power consumption

[zabnat]

"I mean, I love the attention to detail that they put into constructing the case and the internals of it, which Apple is pretty much well known for that..." Today they are known for constructing their computers with such attention to detail that they are almost impossible to repair, so you just have to buy a new one. ;)

[raydeenk]

The G3-G5 towers reminded me so much of the old Apple // systems. So easy to get into and mess around with and upgrade.

[Superutubeking]

My Power MAC G5 runs very smoothly with no loud fans at all. Mine looks just like yours and it’s quiet and doesn’t consume that much energy. I think yours had a cooling problem. I could see water stains at start. The best was dual CPU 2 GHZ with 16 Gig ram. Looks exactly the same but the cooling was very reliable. The fans only run high if there is a serious cooling problem. The quad 2.5 which is the one you tested consumes so much power and is very noisy when cooling is faulty.
I think you tested a bad model

[drew]

I've been waiting so long for another one of these videos!

[ultracubegames]

If you think that thing sucks, I have a twelve year old space heater that takes over 30 seconds to open task maneager

[timoernst]

Putting the machine under the desk will make it act as a resonating body and thus amplify the noise. Also, the heat that the Mac creates is stuck down there which again causes the fans to run even faster because the vents breath in the already warm air which has been pushed out of the case in the first place. It's probably better to put it somewhere to the side of the desk and not underneath.

[Mastergeko]

This computer is the cause of global warming.

[Vortagh]

@The 8-Bit Guy There's something wrong with that system. I own a G5 and they aren't loud at all, quite to the contrary. Either that system is full of dust (also check the water cooling's radiator) or there's a problem with the fan controller, or the temperature sensor, which makes the fans run on absolut full blast. In that case, it needs thermal recalibration.

[willjohnson]

2:05 My face when I wake up in the morning lol

[redwoodii]

Ubuntu has an official port for powerPC architecture.

[jsurace]

I had one of these when they came out, and it was gloriously fast and quiet. I agree there is something wrong with this one - I had many units (we had over 50 at our NASA facility) and when the cpus failed they behaved like you are seeing.

[George_Azeria]

Man that G5 is a lot cleaner than most of Druaga1's, but it probably wasn't ripped out of a skip

[agentontario]

When I was going through the film program in college, my professors insisted that these were the computers of choice for film editing and all things media related. As a result, these were the machines we were trained on. So I have a bit of a nostalgia for the PowerMac G5. I remember the one thing my professor had said when he was talking about these machines that a lot of people in film would hoof these things around in the back of trucks and things and the G5 was built tough enough to handle it. He went as far as to say that they were "bullet proof." I don't know how much of that was true. But I remember these machines being a LOT quieter than what you described in the video. The only time I recall hearing that noise is if we suspected one of them had some cooling issues upon start up. We referred to it as "taking off." Whenever someone powered one of these up and we heard that noise, we'd say "It looks like you're taking off again."

[kensanchez]

8-bit guy: This machine is heavy.

The new Mac pro: Hold my beer

[whateverwhenever]

Switching from Power to Intel was courageous. Removing the headphone jack from the iphone is PR.