I have one of the very final Power Mac G5s, a dual-dual G5 970mp (which contrary to what one often reads on the internet, it wasn’t water-cooled, that was the t

I have one of the very final Power Mac G5s, a dual-dual G5 970mp (which contrary to what one often reads on the internet, it wasn’t water-cooled, that was the top-of-the-line of the previous year’s lineup). It featured PCI-express and I’d stuffed it with oodles if ECC RAM, a FibreChannel interface, and an early SSD. I have to disagree that this system feels in any way ‘ancient’. Honestly it feels more like science fiction, a professional, hefty, dependable machine as opposed to today’s consumer-orientated devices. Yeah, a modern MacBookPro is probably faster. It certainly costs much less too. But... that was a workstation. I did science on it. Nowadays it’s one-size-fits-all and if for some reason it doesn’t fit you you’re shit out of luck.