It's hard to believe that well over 10 years has past since the Power Mac G5, touted by Apple as the fastest personal computer ever built, was the hottest desktop PC around. In it's prime, the Mac G5 tower sold for $2,500 - 3,000 new.
Now these beautiful works of computer art are selling on eBay for $100 - 200. And it's because nobody is producing new software that runs on the PowerPC platform. Or is that entirely true?
Good things comes to those that wait ... so it's been said. I've recently acquired one for a tiny fraction of that. Doing a little research, it's entirely possible to run this beast with a nice selection of current operating systems:
Linux MintPPC
Debian for PowerPC
Lubuntu or Kubuntu (flavors of Ubuntu)
So, we'll see how this goes. Might be a wonderful adventure or a disaster. Stay tuned!
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
― Benjamin Franklin
PS - I could always run the G5 with the last version of OS X that supported PPC, Leopard 10.5.6, but what fun would that be?
