Honest question for PPC Mac owners - Page 4

Lil Chillbil · Yesterday, 03:57 PM

Because as long as you have intel its always nice to challenge your "skills" in a way. plus I love the looks I get when I walk into starbucks with my g3 and start playing quake III online. followed by some rendering, photoshop and forum browsing.

NaiGuy · Today, 06:55 AM

Sadly I don't use my PPC for daily tasks, most of the time I'm gaming, or messing with a recent Linux Distro or something.

tbh thought when I do use them, they are still relatively powerful machines, and are plenty capable, especially for the price you can get them at today. However if you want a huge library of software, paying a lil extra for a late P4 machine or an early CoreDuo/Core2Duo Machine with Windows may tickle your fancy more.

In terms of design I feel the PPC macs were more innovative, they looked nicer then PCs of the time and even with the similarities between machines there was always a distinct difference everytime a new one was released.

In terms of power I've seen alot of Machines from there time which can't hold a candle to them, shame there not as supported as they once were. They also seem better build, I don't doubt that they have falts, look at the G5s, but alot of PCs from the early 2000s suffered from bad caps due to companies trying to be as cheep as possible. I've never seen a ppc mac with blown caps, at most a bad harddrive.

If it wasent for me wanting to play the latest games, my dual 1.0GHz MMD would be fine for me for everything I do. Light Gaming, Web surfing, watching youtube. these machines are not obsolite by any means and I feel that there users can get alot more life out of them. in one way or another.

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Today, 06:55 AM	#77
NaiGuy macrumors newbie Join Date: Oct 2012	Sadly I don't use my PPC for daily tasks, most of the time I'm gaming, or messing with a recent Linux Distro or something. tbh thought when I do use them, they are still relatively powerful machines, and are plenty capable, especially for the price you can get them at today. However if you want a huge library of software, paying a lil extra for a late P4 machine or an early CoreDuo/Core2Duo Machine with Windows may tickle your fancy more. In terms of design I feel the PPC macs were more innovative, they looked nicer then PCs of the time and even with the similarities between machines there was always a distinct difference everytime a new one was released. In terms of power I've seen alot of Machines from there time which can't hold a candle to them, shame there not as supported as they once were. They also seem better build, I don't doubt that they have falts, look at the G5s, but alot of PCs from the early 2000s suffered from bad caps due to companies trying to be as cheep as possible. I've never seen a ppc mac with blown caps, at most a bad harddrive. If it wasent for me wanting to play the latest games, my dual 1.0GHz MMD would be fine for me for everything I do. Light Gaming, Web surfing, watching youtube. these machines are not obsolite by any means and I feel that there users can get alot more life out of them. in one way or another.
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