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Who still uses PowerMac G5?
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You'll notice a huge difference with the RAM upgrade. When I went from 2gb to 4gb it was like night and day (4 to 6 was only really noticeable when doing graphics work, which I do frequently, but in day to day use it was pretty much the same performance). Adding the SSDs bumped my G5 back up into the top performer slot in my office, I won't be MacPro-ing until probably 2011 now.
And my response to the SSD in a mac mini? A pair of SSDs in the powermac's HD slots. It's a screamer now
And my response to the SSD in a mac mini? A pair of SSDs in the powermac's HD slots. It's a screamer now
Keep the SATA I bus's limitations in mind (~185 MB/s theoretical). Using a PCI-X HBA, one might be able to avoid that bottleneck... but at the same time, I'm getting my info on it from wikipedia. I could be wrong.
At the same time, G5, you make a good point.
Quite true, I wonder if there is a PCI-E with 6gb/s, or at least 3gb/s bandwidth, as the last gen dual core G5's don't have pci-x slots.
The SATA I limitations don't enter into it in a RAID0. The speeds are at (or past) the processor saturation point with a halfway decent SSD anyway.
Plus you can move the SSDs into a new system, which makes them one of the best upgrades for an older Mac around...
Plus you can move the SSDs into a new system, which makes them one of the best upgrades for an older Mac around...
The internal BT is different between the DP G5 and the DC G5. On DP its about $30 for the card and its pretty weak without the external antenna (extra $20). The DC is a combo airport/BT card and i think it uses a riser card as well. I 've heard this combination runs about $150 but works great and they eliminated the need for the external antennas of the DP models.
The BT of the Dual-core models is also BT 2.1 so you get the faster transfer speeds. Reception of both BT and AP are much better too with the built-in antenna.
The combo card is actually pretty cheap by itself, around $10 new on ebay. It's used in many different Macs. It's the riser card that is hard to find and is what makes it so expensive.
All it is pretty much a PCB with the right connections to accept the combo BT/AP card. I'm sure any cheap Chinese manufacturer could make them for pennies a card if bought in bulk but then you'd have to deal with the copyrights and patents on the board?
buy a usb dongle. some/most of them work google the web to make sure the model fits...
Sold my PM G5 (2,3DP) for 350 some months ago, mainly because I wanted to get an Intel box (decent virtualization). Ended up buying an iMac.
PowerMac G5 Still in use
I have a June 2004 model dual processor 2.0 GHz, 5.5 GB ram, ATI X800 256MB video, 160 GB and 320 GB (Time machine) drives. It is still working just great. I do alot of video rendering on it and although it's not fast by MacPro Zeon standards, it is functioning perfectly on Leopard 10.5.8. for video I use QT Pro with MPEG addon, MpegStreamClip, and VLC.
Just bought a MBP, 5,1 refurb from the Apple Store, 2.66, 4GB, Expresscard slot. I'll be acquiring a Matrox MX02 Mini with Max technology soon to pull full HD off my DVR.
Love these Macs!
I have a June 2004 model dual processor 2.0 GHz, 5.5 GB ram, ATI X800 256MB video, 160 GB and 320 GB (Time machine) drives. It is still working just great. I do alot of video rendering on it and although it's not fast by MacPro Zeon standards, it is functioning perfectly on Leopard 10.5.8. for video I use QT Pro with MPEG addon, MpegStreamClip, and VLC.
Just bought a MBP, 5,1 refurb from the Apple Store, 2.66, 4GB, Expresscard slot. I'll be acquiring a Matrox MX02 Mini with Max technology soon to pull full HD off my DVR.
Love these Macs!
I've just bought my first G5 dual 2.3MHz 512mb ram but stripped apart from that....needs HDD/Optical/more Ram and a half decent graphics card....I gave $60 for it.....
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Used to be my main home machine but alas is now serving time as a bedroom XBMC (v11 Eden) media centre (which it does faultlessly) - Hooked up the TV, no keyboard or mouse and controlled via the XBMC iPad app. Manually hit the power button to Sleep/Wake - Works great.
I've got a G5 I just picked up a couple of weeks ago, its serving as a secondary storage for iTunes and just looking awesome!
I've bought a G5 Quad during the autumn. I use it mainly as a development machine for big-endian architectures, but mostly PowerPC. It allow me to build universal app (ppc, pp64, x86, x86_64) for OS X... Anyway, that's a powerful machine and I really like the design ! Hope I will not have problem with the LCS, but, if I do, I'll just buy another quad due to low prices of them
The only problem with it... It's compatibility issues with newer version of some applications, and the lack of complete virtualization application for PPC OSes, like VirtualBox or VMware Fusion. Might do a GUI wrapper for QEMU at some point.
The only problem with it... It's compatibility issues with newer version of some applications, and the lack of complete virtualization application for PPC OSes, like VirtualBox or VMware Fusion. Might do a GUI wrapper for QEMU at some point.
I've bought a G5 Quad during the autumn. I use it mainly as a development machine for big-endian architectures, but mostly PowerPC. It allow me to build universal app (ppc, pp64, x86, x86_64) for OS X... Anyway, that's a powerful machine and I really like the design ! Hope I will not have problem with the LCS, but, if I do, I'll just buy another quad due to low prices of them
What apps do you make? I'd love to learn to develop, right now I'm trying to build some applications from source, but I still can't code. FYI, you can install the iPhone SDK on that with Pacifist.
Have you heard of Q? It has a GUI, and is based on QEMU IIRC. The download is not up to date, but justperry tried to build it from source (I know Wildy succeeded, justperry probably did as well).
I've worked a lot on MMORPG private server emulators. My real project is a WinRAR-like archiver for OS X using a custom archive format and common ones. (StuffIt is good, but I don't like the UI) I'll see what I'll do as a school final project too. I've done few games in Java.
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Well, I don't develop for iOS really. To make a GUI, you must do it in Objective-C with Cocoa and I really dislike the language. When Qt5 will be fully ported to iOS, I'll maybe develop for iOS in C++ as I do for OS X. Anyway, at that point, I'll probably have a Mac Pro with my G5 to complete for a powerful x86 computer.
Yes, I've tried Q. Not that bad, but, the app is internally linked to QEMU instead of relying on the CLI. So, well, the QEMU version is really old and to make it work inside Q, it would takes some work. I prefer to do a Qt app that will call QEMU with the necessary commands for all options.