On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Meghrouni Vince wrote: > Please, if you would be so kind, share your experiences with the G5. > What are the problems you've had and/or heard of?
I have an air-cooled dual 2.3 G5 that was new old-stock in 2007, manufactured mid-2005. It had a power supply failure within the first week of usage, something that was a "known issue" for certain G5's, and was covered under an extended warranty program (caused by a lawsuit). See: <http://www.apple.com/support/powermac/powersupply/repairextension/> Unfortunately my G5 was outside the serial group, although I mistakenly though it was included because I misread a "6" as an "8" in the serial. I made an appointment with an Apple Genius Bar and confidently thought it was covered, but then they showed me my error, and said the single digit meant mine was manufactured a single week too early to qualify (the serial contains date of manufacture info). I started to complain bitterly. I'd also had an iBook with the famous bad video chip that was excluded from the extended warranty by a matter of weeks, and I said so, and to my surprise Apple caved in and did my repair for free. There was a small glitch in the repair, they forgot to calibrate the thermal system, and the fans ran full out like a small airplane. I had to return it again, and wait another week, so it required 4 round trips to the Apple Store, nearly 560 miles driving, and $100 in gas & toll for me. It took 4 weeks to get it back in working condition. Since then, no problems. My complaints would be that RAM is relatively expensive still, and there are almost no PCI-X cards that take advantage of the extra bandwidth, everything moved to PCI-e which the next G5's had (along with water cooling, a bad trade off). If you're being cheap and have some tech skills, the hackintosh route is cheapest and fastest, but again, it's always a trade-off: hassle and time vs. speed and cost. The G5 is "ok" in my book, as long as the power supply isn't in the warranty group. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
