Thinking about getting a Mac

[streetspirit7]

I'v been thinking about getting a Mac for a while now, and I found a powermac G5 with a 2.3ghz, 2 gig of ram, 250 gig hard drive. It's second hand from a university for $900. Does this sound like a good deal? I've never really priced macs before, and I've been using them alot in my graphic design classes, and really like them. Any other opionions? Thanks for the help.

[nnorton44]

Does it have the Core 2 Duo processor?

[streetspirit7]

I'm not real knowledgeable when it comes to computer hardware, but I know it has a duo processor, but it's not the intel one.

[nnorton44]

From what I'm looking at on Ebay, $900 isnt too bad of a price, the cheapest similar system I found was $820 shipped.

[PoorManQ45]

Doesnt the G5 support dual processors? Xeons IIRC.

If so then that is a badarse deal

[nnorton44]

Yeah I think it has the dual processors...

[PoorManQ45]

That would be the dual 2.3 quadcore xeons. Each processor costs mire then $900. LOL

[DaveTWM35x]

No the G5 does not have dual core processors like the intel CPUs. These are the last of the Motorola CPU computers, fast but slower than the new intel processors.