- 2006.04.21
Hey everyone, someone is selling a great little setup on
eBay. It would be perfect for light Web browsing.
It's a Power Mac G5
Quad system with 16 GB of RAM, two 500 GB hard drives, a 16x
SuperDrive, a 512 MB PCI Express graphics card, and two 30" 2560 x 1600
displays. It comes with Toast 7 Titanium, Adobe Flash 8 Pro, Photoshop
CS2, Dreamweaver 8, Final Cut Studio 5.1, Adobe Creative Suite 2
Premium, and Office 2004 Pro.
Buy it now for $250.
Right now you are thinking one of two things:
- "He is out of his mind!"
- "This is some real BS!"
Not really.
This eBay auction isn't going to take place until April 2012, six
years from now.
Last year when I wrote my first article (Bigger, Faster, More: Enough Already!), I
had a lot of people write me and tell me how wrong I was, how no one
could get by using Photoshop on a Power Mac 9600 or do video editing
on a Power Mac 8600.
For those of you who are sitting in front of that shinny new Power
Mac G5 with all the bells and whistles that set you back US$29,582 (put
it together yourself on
The Apple Store if you don't believe the price), I ask you to stop
and think about where that G5 is going to be in six years.
There's a good chance that I'll be the one sitting in front of it,
because I will have been the one buy it from you on eBay for $250 (if
not less than that).
Even though you don't think so now, six years from now you're all
going to be telling me that the very same G5 that cost close to $30,000
in 2006 is useless and can't be used for anything but light Web
browsing.
However, the reality is that the machine will be no less capable in
six years than it is today - it simply depends on how you look at
it.
If it will be useless in six years, it's just as useless now - so
why would anyone pay $30,000 for it?
