Friday, February 1, 2019

Re: [Avid-L2] Market for the cheese grader Macs

 

Thunderbolt is not supported on any Cheese Graders. Sonnet has a USB3.0 card for 57 bucks https://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-4-Port-Windows-Compatible/dp/B00GRGCV2G 


On Feb 1, 2019, at 11:57 AM, Paul Darrigo fedguy2@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

They didn't make G5's in 2009    maybe you had it since 2009?


Anyone using Thunderbolt  and USB 3.0 cards in these?  Sonnet is crazy expensive
 
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From: "Lou Wirth loutv@mindspring.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com; Jim Feeley <jfeeley@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, February 1, 2019 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Market for the cheese grader Macs

 
My mistake.  Its been so long.  Its a G5 early 2009



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On Feb 1, 2019, at 10:09 AM, Jim Feeley jfeeley@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


Recently, a few VFX/MG friends were still buying cheese grater Mac Pros. But which model do you have? The PowerPC G4 processor was used in a Power Mac housed in a vertical plastic case. When Apple went to the PowerPC G5 processor, they introduced the metal cheese-grater case:

And Apple kept the same basic case design when they switched to Intel processors in their Mac Pro line.

So a Mac Pro 4.1 and 5.1 still holds some value. Those were made from 2009-2012 (working from memory; double check the dates but that's about right). With 40GB RAM, etc, maybe you could get $1000 or a bit less? Prices from one reseller:

But an older Power Mac with a G5 processor? I recycled mine when the cooling fluid started to leak. But even if it hadn't leaked, I don't think it would have had any value, and that was five years ago! (or so).

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Is there any after market for the Cheese grader G4 towers?  Ive got a souped up one with SSD, 40GB ram, 2.5 TB internal storage that is collecting dust.  Time to clean out the office.  I see a few on Craigslist but I feel it would not sell.  Anyone have recent experience unloading these?







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