Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz Upgrade to Intel

Sadly, no. PPC and Intel are not at all interchangeable. The closest thing you could do to that is gut it and make a hackintosh, which would be expensive and very time consuming, and would be hard to maintain.

Just find the older versions and you should be okay. There is very little between the versions of Adobe software. Photoshop has been the same exact thing year after year, just different splash. Since it is a G5 and you've totally maxed it out, emulation wouldn't hurt and you could run Leopard/Snow Leopard in full screen.

Mate, ae cs3 and all the other cs3 crap works like a charm on ppc

1o2 said:

Hello everybody

I just bought a Power Mac G5 Quad 2.5GHz 2ram for $400 (yes $400) from the craiglist.
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Thats a great deal if its in good condition. (no LCS leaking, ect)

1o2 said:

So there no way that i can run After Effects and Adobe Premiere in this Operating System?

It took me a lot of time to learn and develop skills from After Effects. I dont want to jumping around for other programs and start over again. So I just wanted to focus on After Effects.

There is FinalCut in the system but i dont know how to use it and dont like to use it.

I did a little research about the hackintosh. It is too risky.

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The Adobe CS3 Suite runs beautifully on my G5.

1o2 said:

it's working great and running really fast bro. what is LCS leaking?

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Leaking Coolant from the water cooled heat sinks.

Nasty stuff that is rather corrosive.

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/bl...2007/11/apple-power-mac-g5-oozes-coola-1.html

btbrossard said:

Leaking Coolant from the water cooled heat sinks.

Nasty stuff that is rather corrosive.

http://www.electronicsweekly.com/bl...2007/11/apple-power-mac-g5-oozes-coola-1.html

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Yeah LCS stands for "liquid cooling system". But I don't think it used water, it used some other kind of coolant like this:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3424766&CatId=499

i guess i can
Troubleshoot installation and startup issues in Adobe Encore CS3 on Mac OS X

1. Make sure that the system meets the minimum requirements for Encore.
Encore may not install or start correctly on a system that doesn't meet the following requirements:

Intel-based Apple Macintosh, desktop, iMac, or MacBook Pro
Mac OS X v10.4.9
1 GB RAM
2.5 GB of available hard-disk space (5 GB free space required during installation)
1,280 x 960 video display with 32-bit color adapter
SuperDrive for installation and DVD burning. Blu-ray burner required for creating Blu-ray discs.
QuickTime 7.1.2 software required for multimedia features
Internet or phone connection required for product activation
Broadband Internet connection required for Adobe Stock Photos* and other services

here read what runs on the G5
of the master collection CS3 which includes all the adobe stuff encore premiere pro .... really, but with a G5 .. not a chance some things just require a intel Mac for some products

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402429.html


if you want to have everything working then you need CS2 or CS1 or even earlier
sorry thats adobe thats why flashplayer does not work proper on PPC macs
they just dont like PPC Mac's at Adobe and had been happy when apple announced the intel transition
like mentioned in that article from adobe :

Multi-core Intel processors required. (Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Flash Professional, After Effects Professional are Universal Binary and also work on Power PC G4 or G5 processors), but everything else bad luck with a G5

so it will run on a Mac mini 1.66 (intel )with 2 gb ram and 64mb vram ,but not even on a PowerMac G5 quad maxed out with 16gb ram and 256mb vram