That's not a major issue - I have an iMac G5 that runs Leopard and an Xserve G5 dual processor with a 5TB Xserve RAID that runs Leopard Server. Both are very functional machines and play quite nice with my machines running Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6). No issues with apps, either.
Dan ________________________________ From: Brian Toscano <brian.tosc...@gmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Computer reliability Curt - Another downside of G5 worth pointing out 's is they can't run the last two OS releases from Apple - they're stuck on Leopard and can't be upgraded to Snow Leopard or Lion. Brian On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > *Sigh* you can't compare referb Macs to NEW PCs, not fair. > > A 5 year old Dell Precision laptop will bring nearly as much as a Mac > though Mac prices are artificially high because of fanboys. > If you think all Windows machines are crap its almost certainly because > you've never used a GOOD PC. > > The W123 of the computer world right now is the HP xw8200. Super reliable > and built like a brick outhouse. The comparable (meaning same time frame) G5 > Mac doesn't hardly exist because they had liquid cooling and they've pretty > much all leaked by now. Some of them caught on fire when they leaked... > > -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com