Anyone have anything older they want to get rid of?
I don’t, but I wouldn’t waste my time on a PowerPC mac anymore… Software support is really dwindling on them.
I know 
However I just need something to run OSX server on for home that isn’t a virtual machine and is quiet
Lz check out eBay I got a tower off their for about $50 shipped just needed some memory even had a 80gig hdd
I have been stalking G5s
Gainsaver has them for around $112 with free shipping.
Ebay they keep going for 160-170(shipped) with 4gb of ram and a decent sized HD.
Does the modern OSX Server even run on non-intel chips?
If you are buying a non Intel you should save your money and just buy one of these:
Wow that’s not a bad price at all, I remember getting my fishbowl macs for free back in the day those were fun to mess with but not for what your looking to do, let us kno what you get or find
Lol had 2x of those iMacs one was a 333mhz power pc with 512mb of ram and another was a 500mhz with 1gig of ram both ran osx even tried server, the only thing with the iMacs under 450mhz you have to partion the hard drive for 8gigs
I don’t mind spending the $200 if I could find something local and save the $40-50 shipping why not :lol:
I can get a dual core G5 2.0ghz with a couple gig of ram for under $200 it will run OSX server just fine…It would be dumb to buy a slower giant imac with a screen.
Example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/200679179146?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT
Those older G5 towers are starting to sell cheap, since they are damn slow by todays standards. It would depend on how you plan to use the machine, but they LOVE to ramp the fans at moderate CPU loads. They’re not what I would call quiet.
I like the PPC Minis better than the previous gen Intel models, but they’re limited to 1GB of RAM and a 2.5" HDD. If you need minimal performance, the G5 is the best bang for your buck. They’re a bit inefficient and large for a 24/7 low performance box, it depends on your use.
The bottom line with Apple hardware, if its cheap its slow. If you don’t need much CPU behind this, a G5 tower is going to be the easy way out. It has dual gigabit ethernet, a bunch of RAM slots, and two full size SATA bays. Drop a fresh 10.6 install on it, optimize it, clean the heatsinks, load it with RAM, and possibly a cheap SSD… It might do well.
I just got a G5 with 4gb ram, dual 2.3ghz, 250gn hd for 170 shipped…
When it gets here i will be loading OSX server and using it for DHCP/DNS/file storage/various other shit
Details on where you got it that’s cheap as hell
i have an old mac book, needs a hard drive and a screen, can get the whole thing fixed for like 350, but if your using an external display the display is no big deal, so would just need a hard drive which can be had cheap
id let the comp go for cheap if your interested
do you kno what model it is and the cpu and memory that is in it? what would you like for it?
Ebay depending on HD/Ram they go between 130-300 shipped
That low of a price makes them reasonable buys to make a hackintosh out of them, of course case modding required.
They maybe long in the tooth for OS X being that Leopard is the last version they can run but they make mean linux servers and if you are so inclined like LZ OS X server.
I needed something at home to do DNS/Radius/DHCP/Apache/LDAP/Syslog I like OS X server and used them in the past…OS X server also gives me a nice GUI to do everything.
I could have went the Linux box route however all the hardware I have kicking around is 1U rack mount servers which are to loud to run at home…I would have had to purchase something to do this anyways.
I never understood OSX servers… I just feel like its a glorified Linux with less ability to really hack it into what you want it to do which is important in the server realm.
Idunno boxxa…If you’re spending a lot of your sys admin time hacking the linux OS, you’re probably doing something wrong. I guess it all depends on what you’re running, but I would say that OS X server is flexible enough for most of the basic services that LZ is needing.
Wanna say bye to any of those 1u rack servers?