I make part of my living buying used hardware from School Surplus auctions.
Believe me, no School makes hardware purchases thinking five years ahead. They sell off perfectly good hardware two years after purchasing it, and are off running after the 'shiney new' stuff.
There's an auction this coming Friday here, and I am worried if I have a big enough truck this time to haul off the goodies I get.
I suspect that the G5 Macs have the highest percentage of the engineering workstation market after the x86 boxes.
Not enough of the high end 'workstation' software has been ported to the Mac for this to be true. A lot of that software, regrettably, migrated over to NT from the UNIX workstations in the mid to late 90's. I doubt if it will migrate to the Mac anytime soon.
The old Macs had this design going way back. My Mac Plus had ventillation in the hand hole on the top, and no fan.
Of course, third party vendors developed a cooling fan that would slide into the hand hole, which made the Mac Plus far less likely to crash. That fan cost hundreds of dollars (it was a plain muffin fan in a molded thermoplastic housing), which Mac users just shrugged off and paid.
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Goodness sakes. Return hardware to the vendor just to increase it's memory??
I make part of my living buying used hardware from School Surplus auctions.
Believe me, no School makes hardware purchases thinking five years ahead. They sell off perfectly good hardware two years after purchasing it, and are off running after the 'shiney new' stuff.
There's an auction this coming Friday here, and I am worried if I have a big enough truck this time to haul off the goodies I get.
I suspect that the G5 Macs have the highest percentage of the engineering workstation market after the x86 boxes.
Not enough of the high end 'workstation' software has been ported to the Mac for this to be true. A lot of that software, regrettably, migrated over to NT from the UNIX workstations in the mid to late 90's. I doubt if it will migrate to the Mac anytime soon.
The old Macs had this design going way back. My Mac Plus had ventillation in the hand hole on the top, and no fan.
Of course, third party vendors developed a cooling fan that would slide into the hand hole, which made the Mac Plus far less likely to crash. That fan cost hundreds of dollars (it was a plain muffin fan in a molded thermoplastic housing), which Mac users just shrugged off and paid.