I bought my first desktop Mac back in 2004 after owning an iBook 3G since 2002. And as a 19 year old software developer from Germany who finished his apprenticeship, I wanted the best Mac I could afford. I bought a Power Mac G5 - one of the first dual core models with water cooling. Was a lot of money back then and I waited months for it to arrive, but it was a great machine.

Played a lot of World of Warcraft on this thing. :-) And did some Cocoa/Objective-C development. But it was never the big investment that I thought it would be. After the Intel switch in 2006, the Power Mac G5 didn't have much more use for me personally because the new Intel machines were so much better...

Today I'm more into buying the cheaper machines for myself. Should have put the money from the Power Mac G5 into Apple stocks...

Someone had one of those g5s on eBay for a few hundo. Ones with the wheels. I regret not picking it up and at least putting bsd on it.