Vintage Mac Living

Bigger, Faster, More: You Need It All!

- 2006.04.21

Hey everyone, someone is selling a great little setup on eBay. It would be perfect for light Web browsing.

It's a Power Mac G5 Quad system with 16 GB of RAM, two 500 GB hard drives, a 16x SuperDrive, a 512 MB PCI Express graphics card, and two 30" 2560 x 1600 displays. It comes with Toast 7 Titanium, Adobe Flash 8 Pro, Photoshop CS2, Dreamweaver 8, Final Cut Studio 5.1, Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium, and Office 2004 Pro.

Buy it now for $250.

Right now you are thinking one of two things:

"He is out of his mind!"
"This is some real BS!"

Not really.

This eBay auction isn't going to take place until April 2012, six years from now.

Last year when I wrote my first article (Bigger, Faster, More: Enough Already!), I had a lot of people write me and tell me how wrong I was, how no one could get by using Photoshop on a Power Mac 9600 or do video editing on a Power Mac 8600.

For those of you who are sitting in front of that shinny new Power Mac G5 with all the bells and whistles that set you back US$29,582 (put it together yourself on The Apple Store if you don't believe the price), I ask you to stop and think about where that G5 is going to be in six years.

There's a good chance that I'll be the one sitting in front of it, because I will have been the one buy it from you on eBay for $250 (if not less than that).

Even though you don't think so now, six years from now you're all going to be telling me that the very same G5 that cost close to $30,000 in 2006 is useless and can't be used for anything but light Web browsing.

However, the reality is that the machine will be no less capable in six years than it is today - it simply depends on how you look at it.

If it will be useless in six years, it's just as useless now - so why would anyone pay $30,000 for it? LEM

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