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Am I the only one?
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To be honest, I'm on the fence with this one. For my daily tasks of browsing the internet, watching some videos on YouTube, listening to Spotify, doing school work, and word processing, I could totally live with a PowerPC Mac. There are rare times when I have some free time and I am able to do some light gaming mainly with Cities Skylines and Minecraft. I know for a fact that Cities won't run on any PowerPC Mac and Minecraft works but not amazingly on the PowerPC Macs that I have around.
I've always dreamed of being able to use a iMac G4 on a daily basis. Such a gorgeous machine. Although I've found some light daily tasks for my new 17" iMac G4, it doesn't get near as much usage as my way more powerful Hackintosh. I've toyed around with the idea of gutting a G4 and putting a Intel NUC or something inside of it, but I hate the idea of gutting a perfectly usable Mac.
I've always dreamed of being able to use a iMac G4 on a daily basis. Such a gorgeous machine. Although I've found some light daily tasks for my new 17" iMac G4, it doesn't get near as much usage as my way more powerful Hackintosh. I've toyed around with the idea of gutting a G4 and putting a Intel NUC or something inside of it, but I hate the idea of gutting a perfectly usable Mac.
I wouldnt mind it, I have a buttload of ATX PSUs kickin around, Id simply hack one up and wire it for use in the MDD, I am a cheapskate, I dont expeck things perfect i expect things to work, it that means needing a external PSU in my MDD so be it, I ran a ATX PSU Externally on my PDS Desktop when the PSU fried, Ran it that way for months until the system died. I would probably just run the wires thu the existing PSU hole for the power cord.
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than just buy a Dead Mac Mini G4 or 1st gen Intel Mac Mini for the case. TBH Macs are production machines they are meant for video editing and music producing, they are not meant for gaming nor were the ideas of them being "home use" machines really the goal at hand.
Tell that to the production professionals who are upset because Apple killed Aperture and castrated Final Cut.
Apple is-and always has been-a consumer electronics company. The Mac made inroads into the publishing and creative industry because Quark and Adobe initially developed for them. They made inroads in the scientific market(where, by profession, I spend a lot of time) thanks to programs like Mathematica that were initially developed for the Macintosh.
Now, pretty much all creative programs are available on both platforms and a lot of scientific programs are Windows or Linux/Unix only.
I know many creative professionals who feel like Apple is leaving them behind.
Yes, yes it was. But through the actions of a certain person here, he may never do something like that again...
It's been what? 2+ months now? More?
I'm willing to start a GoFundMe campaign to support all the poor MacRumors members (and other citizens of society) taken advantage by our resident schnorrer.
(Yiddish word of the day: schnorrer = a parasitic person)
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The western world says hello!
But seriously, I like Apple's ecosystem. It's not always perfect but it saves time with setup in many ways. I love configuring complex networks for fun and bootstrapping vintage rigs, but sometimes I'm in a hurry and don't want to learn something. I just want Netflix to load up.
I suppose the slightly frustrating thing about lack of PPC support, is that systems like the G5 Quad could, with modern software support, do all modern tasks swimmingly. It's geek bench score is pretty much on par with a Dell Optiplex 780 I got for free from college. It has a 3GHz DualCore E8400 and I threw in a cheap nVidia GT-730. Runs GTA V at 720P and 30FPS. A 2015 high end game. The processor can manage. But it also has the software backing of DirectX 11 and Windows 10.
Sadly, Yosemite is lightyears from being on a G5...
My friend is wanting a MacBook for school when I tell her a iBook or PowerBook can do everything she needs to do MS Office, Photoshop, GarageBand, iMovie. LOL quick question, how does iPhone 4S Syncing work on PowerPC?
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Who uses BlackBerry's anymore? LOL
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Who uses BlackBerry's anymore? LOL
An iBook, unless it has the top processor, max ram, and SSD, and even then it's pushing it, will not cut it. Trust me, being that I used one for a few months in school, it was painful, and I didn't want to accept it.
If your iTunes is updated to the max, and your iPhone 4S is still on iOS 5/6 (i don't remember if iOS 6 works or not...), then it would be like any other iPhone or iTunes in terms of syncing. I could sync my older iPod Nano (generation before the one with a camera, 2 before the tiny square one) to my PowerPC macs easily being that they are compatible.
Never had a BB before however a friend of mine 8 years ago had one just like smartphones today, BBs are hyped up and offer nothing, plus back when BBs were one of the few smartphones, nobody wanted nor could they afford them.
That would probably work fine, being that iBooks max out at 1.42GHz. Erik uses that daily and doesn't have a problem with it. I still think a C2D/1st gen i5 or i7 MB/MBP would be better and they are getting to be pretty cheap.
She will most likely just get another Windows laptop I was just telling her about cheaper options.... Perhaps I should tell her to get a System76.
I must say, other than the HDD issues, I can't complain about my $80 Dell Latitude E6410
I paid $75 for a DELL Inspiron 1420 a year or two ago. I can't complain either other than the fact the charger falls out all the time. I still have to max the ram and i ripped out the modem the SIM card slot and got a Bluetooth Module for it. Also had to get a new 9 cell battery and a chager but the charger was free it was in a bin of free cables at a garage sale last year.
I already had a charger from a previous broken dell, and I bought a new 12-cell battery for $30, which lasts me about 8 hours
I get about 4-5 hours off my 9 cell battery. I dont use it on battery much though. The XPS series of DELL laptops car total Garbage so are the Inspirons of the XP area where they were literally blowing up and catching fire. Now have 4 dells in the house a Inspiron 531 desktop, a Dimension desktop and a Optiplex GX270 for internet server. I'll never buy a new computer not only because I cannot afford one but because i tend to find that secondhand seems better.