Mac G5 or Low-end Mac Pro?

[mrmeister]

Hi,

This is just an idea at the moment, as I doubt my parents will allow it due to my severe lacking of funds at the moment.... but I shall ask nonetheless.

I record my band and am about to begin recording other bands just for demos in my garage. Currently I use a macbook pro (late 2008 unibody, 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM) running Apple's Logic Studio 9.

I was just wondering, if I had the money, what would be better - a Mac G5, most likely bought off ebay, or a lower end Mac Pro?

It would be used just for audio applications and photo applications with a chance of moving to video as well, but less likely.

Any ideas on which would work best?

Thanks for your help in advance,
mrmeister

[Rhalliwell1]

It has to be the mac pro for compatibility with intel only software and for future proof's sake.

[mrmeister]

Thanks for the quick reply, thats what I was thinking, but unfortunately they are so much more expensive than G5's.
I've heard of people building a Mac Pro - NOT a Hackintosh. Would this be much cheaper do you know?

[Love]

Get a used Mac Pro. http://macofalltrades.com

Future software compatibility, with cheaper prices. They also have some fairly nice, cheap G5s there.

[mrmeister]

This is a US site, sorry, I should've mentioned i'm in the UK

[Satori]

Hi,

This is just an idea at the moment, as I doubt my parents will allow it due to my severe lacking of funds at the moment.... but I shall ask nonetheless.

I record my band and am about to begin recording other bands just for demos in my garage. Currently I use a macbook pro (late 2008 unibody, 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM) running Apple's Logic Studio 9.

I was just wondering, if I had the money, what would be better - a Mac G5, most likely bought off ebay, or a lower end Mac Pro?

It would be used just for audio applications and photo applications with a chance of moving to video as well, but less likely.

Any ideas on which would work best?

Thanks for your help in advance,
mrmeister

I doubt that the G5 will be any quicker than your current MBP. Sounds like disc space could be your biggest issue so if money is tight perhaps storage is what you should spend out on.

[Deepshade]

So much software will not run on a PPC G5 (Intel Only) - that will only become more problematic as time goes on.

As for music software - Reason 4 runs far far slower on our studio G5 than it does on my £325 Core2D Acer.

Whatever you do - don't get a G5 PPC. You'll be wasting your money.

[bzollinger]

Get a used Mac Pro. http://macofalltrades.com

Future software compatibility, with cheaper prices. They also have some fairly nice, cheap G5s there.

Wow I was surprised at how few offerings they actually have!

+1 for intel based MP.

[mrmeister]

Thanks for the replies guys, i'll keep all this in mind

[rickvanr]

There is a reason the G5s are so much cheaper..

[Flash SWT]

Without a doubt the Intel model. I wouldn't consider a PowerPC machine for anything other than server duty at this point.

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