A subscriber sent me over 100 pounds of Vintage Apple products!

A viewer sent over a giant pile of vintage Apple products, so in today's video we'll take a first look at it! Make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications to see other videos about this treasure trove!

Gear:

[Garrettdx]

Damn whoever was able to give all that away was heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem before we were calling it the Apple ecosystem

[andrewbeacham]

When you’re from the UK and you assume the title is referring to £100 rather than 100lbs 🤦‍♂️😂

[CHBen_]

If you have a fire wire 400 cable boot the iBook G4 holding down the “t” key. Then connect them together with the firewire cable. Now you can boot the G5 from the iBook’s hard drive.

[CyclonesWorld]

Those G5's still look modern even by todays standards. The case design was excellent and it was pretty simple layout to work on. It definitely liked to get dusty, but it was pretty easy to clean. When all those fans ramped up to 100% though, it sounded like it was going to take off.

[zaaajac]

You are definitely young because it was a wire for modem when you said “some cable, not sure where it goes”😂😁

[jesseb]

omg that's so cool! i love this era of apple design. i have the old mac pro just like that but with intel and still use it today. <3

[richardcarlson]

I had the 2 processor version of the G5, it was a beast for sure! I also had 2 of the 30" Cinema Displays that cost more than my car at the time.

[alana]

8:01 yes, please do a follow up vid, it would be really interesting

[AlexanderLindo]

Almost 2 decades old and those Apple products are still beautiful by today's standards.

[ruzzelladrian]

This is such a fun video. I love looking back at old Apple products from the 2000's, because we get a look back at how modern Apple's designs were compared to the competition.

[mattalki]

I had a 1.6GHZ G5 and 20” Cinema Display plus an iBook G4. The G5 was the best computer I’ve ever owned. I wish it could have kept up with the times, as nothing Apple has today is as useable and well built as that thing was.

[squalley]

3:55 I still have mine from 2004. It was my first music production machine. I use it now as a server and radiator for those chilly Arizona days. 🤔🤨🤦🏾‍♂️

[runabout]

Great stuff! I have 2 of those 23" displays. I use one on my Work From Home iMac Rig as a secondary display.
Can't wait to see the G5 restore video.

[PolluxChung]

That Cinema Display. I had one too. Good old memory.

[remz]

Hell yeah, I want a follow up video of clean up and runnig G5!

[nukelauncher]

Just so you know, both the iBook and Power Mac can run Leopard. I would keep the iBook on Tiger though. It's probably a little too slow to run Leopard comfortably. Another thing about the Power Mac is that it needs to have the clear plastic piece installed. There's a sensor inside that will run the fans at 100% or even sometimes prevent the system from booting if the plastic isn't installed. Also, you're lucky that you don't have one of the water cooled models. Yep, Apple was crazy enough to sell a factory water cooled computer, but they were kinda unreliable. The coolant leaks out onto the power supply and shorts it out. Usually just the power supply will blow up, but it can always take out the motherboard and other components too. The case will also rust and corrode like a mofo if the cooling loop leaks and you don't catch it, like if you have one that leaked when in storage.

[FirefightersFinancialToolbox]

Very cool, let’s see the restoration of that old machine.

[euan]

this video title does not sound as impressive as a british guy 😂

[dsr]

I was starting off a career in 3D animation in 2003. I had learned Alias Maya (before it was bought by Autodesk) and was running it well on a dual Xeon PC. An illustration firm was wanting to hire me to get into 3D animation. While I was being hired, I was asked about what setup they should get. I stated that Maya for the PC was well established: that it had recently been ported to Mac, but getting a PC setup like my workstation and PC version of Maya would be more stable. Turned out their IT person thought he knew better than me and ordered the Power G5 and Maya for Mac. First day trying it, I was really frustrated. Turned out raytrace rendering on it was dreadfully slow (assume some of it was poor porting and limitations of G5 by then). I got so frustrated I started bringing in my own PC workstation to work! Just a story about how software optmization is really important.

[Spamsgood]

you should use the G5 as one of the background macs for your set. after you get it booted.