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The Apple Power Macintosh G5/1.6, along with the Power Macintosh G5/1.8 and Power Macintosh G5/2.0 DP, is a member of the first Mac series to use the 64-bit PowerPC 970 (G5) processor, and consequently are arguably the first "desktop" computers to use 64-bit chips. 1.4.3 Power Macintosh G5 "Quad Core" (2.5).1.4.2 Power Macintosh G5 Dual Core (2.3).

1.4.1 Power Macintosh G5 Dual Core (2.0).1.4 Apple Power Macintosh G5 (Late 2005).1.3 Apple Power Macintosh G5 (Early 2005).1.2 Apple Power Macintosh G5 (Mid 2004).1.1 Apple Power Macintosh G5 (Mid 2003).We're tinkerers and enthusiasts so we still see potential (to a certain degree of course) in those machines which is good because they are quite frankly fascinating pieces of tech. I really enjoyed upgrading mine and researching what can be done hardware-wise and software-wise. putting an Airport card from a more modern MacBook inside the G5 or repurposing old PC graphic cards to flash and use them in the G5). What I especially love about them is the option for PCIe cards which opens the door for many upgrades (e.g. Now I have three assembled ones (different configurations) and one is in pieces serving as a spare. I was so intrigued by my first PowerMac 11,2 that I got a second one, a third one and eventually a fourth one (kind of obsessive I know). All that was in 2019 when those machines were already considered junk by the general public. I hold them dear since the late 2005 model was my first Apple tower computer (a couple of months before I got my Mac Pro 3,1 which is still a DD). Congrats on getting a G5 again! They (late 2005 models) are still somewhat capable machines if you can live with older software.