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Duh it has an apple logo. It must mean its different cuz its from apple.

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I had a Daystar Mac....purchased after the point at which Daystar sold out to a company called "MacWorks." I think it was a "Millenium MP"While the machine was very impressive on paper--and, yes, the case was crazy heavy-duty and very expandable--the guts of the system were always very buggy for me. I had problems with the CPU daughtercard, and especially with the RAID subsystem--MacWorks replaced the SCSI card twice--first a replacement Initio and then an Adaptec--but I never stopped getting -39 IO errors, which sort of defeated the purpose of having the thing.It also has to be the loudest computer I've ever personally owned, easily competing with any server room beast. Seriously---really, really loud. But still, even after all that, it was a cool computer.

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My studio bought me one back in the day. Ittowered over me, even taller than today's G5s. (They also bought me a rarity for then: a 22" widescreen laCie Trinitron-based monitor that weighed a ton. Great Photoshop setup) I remember having to use a hacksaw to cut a hole one of the bay doors to squeeze an internal Iomega jaz drive in it. I couldn't do it elegantly, so i purposely made a rough jagged hole, making it look like my Daystar exploded. So fun to see the expressions on my clients' facese to see an $8000 computer look busted. It was years before the cumulative mhz were surpassed by what Apple had to offer. It was a great computer.

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I still have one of these machines. I worked with BenH and paulus to get the first kernel support for linux that fired up all 4 processors (not cores!)These towers are HUGE and very well built. People still use these machines with processor upgrade cards in them due to that fact alone. It has 8 drive bays and enough power to run them all.

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You "would" choose ubuntu if you "had to" but are sticking with XP .. LOL, enjoy.It's pretty obvious you've never actually USED a mac.

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Apple doesn't design the whole machine and didn't when they were PPC either. Apple picks from a series of other manufacturers and puts the machine together. There's nothing wrong with this but to claim Apple does everything when we know that Intel at the very least designed the CPU (which is a much more difficult task than anything Apple actually do) is just a blatant lie.Apple does design the case and some of the software (bar the difficult bits like the Mach/BSD kernel they use).

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Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Working in a prepress environment with high powered Macs, the clones were certainly of interest to the company I worked for at the time. We did get one of these along with a couple of Supermacs to go along with the other PowerPCs in the department. The Genesis was reserved for Scitex users that were learning PhotoShop as they transitioned away from the Scitex Blaze and to the Mac platform. I was the PhotoShop guy helping them transition (and believe me, they were not happy about it!). Good times, good times...

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Well the command to read nvram (count as BIOS) variables on my Apple Quad G5 (PPC970MP) with -p (print)oem-logooem-banner? falseVery interesting eh?

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