The first time I saw one of these was when my boss (a huge Apple fan boy at a time when that was a difficult lifestyle choice) managed to somehow convince the l

The first time I saw one of these was when my boss (a huge Apple fan boy at a time when that was a difficult lifestyle choice) managed to somehow convince the local Apple distributer to loan the office a demo machine for some reason. You have to place the machine in the context of the time - the office was filled with crappy desktop machines from Dell, Compaq, and a bunch of white box OEMs. The G5 tower suddenly arrived like the monolith from 2001 with us all clustered around like filthy apes. We never did anything useful with that G5 and after a few months it disappeared. But its job was done, over the next couple of years nearly everyone uplifted by that machine purchased at least one Mac for personal use.