Wanting to buy a used iMacG5 Intel core

What should I look for in a used iMac G5-as far as reliability etc? Recommended price?How to know if its a good one?

To be even clearer, Apple released two white iMacs that looked exactly the same on the outside, but are completely different beasts on the inside. The G5 uses a CPU by IBM. The Intel CoreDuo, Core2Duo, i3, i5, i7 are all made by Intel. The G5 maxes out at Mac OS X 10.5.8, can run Mac OS 9 on top of Mac OS X with limited driver support in what's known as a Classic environment on 10.4.11 or earlier, and has no native Windows support, and all of that has to be emulated. The G5s came prebundled with AppleWorks, which while it works on Intel iMacs, they don't have AppleWorks included. Some iMac G5s can run a minimum of Mac OS X 10.3.5 if you get the original bundled discs.
The Intel CPU can run Windows natively via Virtualization, does not have any Classic environment for old Mac OS 9 software. All Intel iMacs with at least 1 GB of RAM can be upgraded to 10.6.4 but no Intel iMac can run any Mac OS less than 10.4.4.
Regardless of the Mac, the minimum OS that was available at its release is the minimum it will run.
See this post to tell the difference:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2126451

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Hi MichaelMac 1,
I'm wery please with my Late 2005 Quad-core. Never had any issues with the hardware so far. Except a purchased 'broken in the box' disk for WD, but that's not apple hardware.
At work I've also a Quad, the only thing I've noticed on heavy use is that my 2 cinema displays 23" tend to 'burn in' (when I look close I still can read my mails from a while ago) (if this would be also in your secondhand deal)
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