MacMall selling Big Mac Power Mac G5s

MacMall has started selling Power Mac G5 Dual-2GHz systems from Virginia Tech's Big Mac supercomputer cluster. Virginia Tech announced in January that it would be migrated the 1,100 Power Mac G5s to Xserve G5s. Mac users who would like to own a piece of what was the world's third fastest supercomputer in 2003 can do so for $2,799, a $200 savings over the cost of a brand new dual-2GHz Power Mac G5, that also includes an extra 512MB of RAM (after rebate) but no internal modem.

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pff

02/12, 8:57am, EST

only 200 hundred off? c'mon

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fuck that

02/12, 10:39am, EST

used pieces of shit for only 200 less. fuck them!

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They could have...

02/12, 12:05pm, EST

definitely done better with advertising this. Maybe include some promitions with it...
What about warranty? Does this have Apple's one year warranty? Maybe if they threw in, 3-years of Apple Care service I would consider one.

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RIPE.

02/12, 2:49pm, EST

Apple was just RIPE to sell the VT Supercomputer leftovers from the Xserve G5 migration.

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