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What to do with PowerMac G5 case?
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
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So I have been given a PowerMac G5 (Cheesegrater) that is definitively dead. I want to do something fun with it.
I have no interest in spending large sums on it, and I don’t need nor want a PC build, so that is out.
If I had two, I’ve seen a cool coffee table. But I’m not buying another, so that is out.
Any thoughts?
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Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
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Sell off the parts on eBay, including case?
I keep my G5 around as a hobby machine, and to play old games. But my G5 works, and I have a backlog of PPC games to play. Assuming I ever get around to playing those games. In practice, my G5 gathers dust for years at a time, until I have enough hand-me-down SSDs to do an upgrade.
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Buy a mac mini, mount it inside, along with USBC raid array for more storage or something.
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Originally Posted by MacNNFamous 
Buy a mac mini, mount it inside, along with USBC raid array for more storage or something.
Not a bad idea. I would probably use a RaspberryPi, but ventilation might be an issue. I suppose I could try and reuse fans. Or just swap them out.
Any other ideas?
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Cut out a viewing window in the side panel, install a plexiglass window, and use it as a display case for Lego models.
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Moderator  Join Date: Aug 2001
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Timely post. My son returned my old 2x2 G5 tower and the Cinema HD display that went with it, and I have no clue what to do with them. The G5 doesn’t boot, but I think that’s due to that battery on the board being dead.
I’m not enough of a nerd to bother mounting new gear inside the thing, so I really need to dispose of the tower and display. I seriously don’t feel like dealing with shipping these things across country, though. The damned G5 feels like it weighs 100 lbs. At least I still have the box for the display (but that thing isn’t exactly light, either.)
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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I would just sell it for parts on eBay. That's a lot of space for a non-functional machine and those parts might be useful to someone else who cares.
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I sell refurbished and SSD upgraded Mac mini G4s as the ultimate Mac OS 9 machines at https://os9.shop
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by Laminar
Cut out a viewing window in the side panel, install a plexiglass window, and use it as a display case for Lego models.
These had a rectangular side panel with a tab along the bottom edge and the clip mechanism built into a frame that looks like it would come off fairly easily. It would be pretty trivial to build a perspex version of it and transfer the clip from from an original.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001
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Behind that metal side panel is also a clear plastic panel, molded into a shape meant to shape air circulation throughout the case.
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