I've long been a PC person, and from my point of view the G5 came and went in the blink of an eye. Our time in the sun is brief, the G5's time especially so. The G5 puts me in mind of an ageing footballer who finally has a chance to play a World Cup match he is called up from the substitute's bench, entertains the crowd for twenty minutes, but the team loses, and by the time of the next World Cup the uniform is the same but the players are all different. In 2003 it was a desktop supercomputer that was supposed to form the basis of Apple's product range for years to come, but within three years it had been discontinued, along with the entire PowerPC range, in favour of a completely new computing architecture. Apple launched the G5 in 2003 with great fanfare, but nowadays it has a decidedly mixed legacy. So weighty that it creases my paper backdrop, even if I put something underneath it.

Let's have a look at the Apple Power Macintosh G5, a weighty space heater that can also perform computing tasks.

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