'How dusty is this thing,' I wondered, 'and how much money am I actually going to be willing to invest to get a computer of legal driving age to turn on? The answers were 'extremely' and 'about $50'.

When I picked this up from a random stranger's garage, I had no idea what to expect.

A special DisplayPort which provided power and video signal.

Lots of ports, like Firewire 400/800, optical audio in/out, and Ethernet.

AMD Radeon 9600 Pro graphics card with 64MB of VRAM.Apple AirPort Extreme 802.11G Wifi card.Dual-core PowerPC G5 processors running at 2.0GHz.

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