On Aug 19, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > A friend told me that a dealer here told him that they got many > G5's with a blown power supply. > Is this so? Do some googling. There was a very comprehensive reliability report a little while back with figures for all Mac models going back a few years. Interesting reading. There are some particular models (and model versions) that fared better than others in certain areas, power supplies being one of them. Some people may remember that there was a huge batch of bad capacitors that affected the entire industry including Apple (anyone have a 1.25 G4 eMac?). later, j mcd --- John McDaniel ---