Well I had a friend hook me up with his unused copy from a few years ago. You could always pick up a copy off Amazon (I've seen them for around $50)...there are other "means" of obtaining it, but I'm not at liberty to discuss it on here.
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Buying PowerPC Macs In 2012
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Well I had a friend hook me up with his unused copy from a few years ago. You could always pick up a copy off Amazon (I've seen them for around $50)...there are other "means" of obtaining it, but I'm not at liberty to discuss it on here.
If you have a friend in university with microsoft protocol you can have it for free through msdnaa.
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I watch youtube in HD 720p fullscreen very smoothly on a daily basis. My main computer is a dual 1.42 ghz G4 MDD. You just have to know the trick. Forget about flash, it is soooo outdated on a PPC mac. You have to have MacTubes.
I watch youtube in HD 720p fullscreen very smoothly on a daily basis. My main computer is a dual 1.42 ghz G4 MDD. You just have to know the trick
even with mactubes unless u watch it with quicktime as the player itll be just as crappy as youtube itself
Netflix? Are you kidding me? The instant stream section has TONS of movies, and TV shows, Last time I checked over 35,000 titles, just in instant streams. I'd rather stream Netflix in HD then clog up hard drive space lol, or run to red box all the time.
Yeah, I wouldn't buy a Mac to play games either, but I am curious to see whats out there, a typical user looking for a cheap computer might be wanting to play newer games, PPC isn't gonna do that.
I won't go into my job as I don't do that on the internet, but alot of the stuff I do is pretty intensive, and I don't think a PPC would do it for me personally, tho I'm sure for alot of people it would. ( as he said, latest and greatest. I don't NEED the latest and greatest the day it comes out, but I like being up to date, not to mention my Main Machine is a 7 machine, I don't think I could deal with OSX all day lol. )
I'm just really viewing this as a typical user who wants to make the switch to a Mac, or just buy a cheaper computer, and if I was someone who wanted to do tons of steaming, go down the media road, and get newer software, I would go with a Intel Mac or a Mid Level PC rather than a PPC Mac, thats just my opinion tho. And We are just talking G5s, which sometimes can get pricy. No offense to the PPC Mac, I've only had mine a few weeks and I love it, its awesome to Surf/Browse/do really light editing and I love buying a ton of Games that I never got around to back in my High school days. But I'd never make it a main machine
PS: Maybe I'm out of touch, or don't know enough about Macs, but I see alot of people using G4's and G3s in here, do they have enough power to do modern tasks?
Hell yeah! Some of the late G4's and pretty much all dual G5's are beasts!
G3's are slow, good enough for very basic tasks like web browsing, emails etc. but look at a dual 1.42 or even 1.25 MDD with 2gb RAM or a dual 2.3 or 2.5 G5 with 4gb RAM (just examples). They are quick machines!
We all seem to be repeating ourselves on this thread ten fold, if PowerPC does what you need, then all's good! If not, jump on the Intel bandwagon!
I use two PPC Macs daily. One is an old eMac that I got a few weeks ago. Most amazing machine ever. Leaps and bounds over the G3 iMac it replaced. The other is an old 550Mhz Powerbook G4.
My eMac is my music player and TV. And my Powerbook is my CNC controller. I also have a G4 Cube as a backup for when my Intell iMac is having problems. While none of them are speed machines on the internet, they show me the pages I want and run along without any problems.
the G5, Yeah I bought a Dual 1.8 with 8gb of ram for cheap cheap cheap, and I kinda fell in love with it. Its a quick machine for sure, and probably the ONLY PPC mac that I could use ( G5s that is ), because I'm the kind of person who has to have a million programs running at the same time, just because of the ADD and the multitasking. Like atm on the 7 machine I'm video rendering while ripping a Blu Ray, at the same time I'm installing a game, watching Netflix, typing on here, and downloading a ton of zune video and music content, and am currently loading up Skype without issues, Because I'm nuts.
My G5 is awesome, I love it. But G4s and G3s are much less powerful aren't they?
System 7 is nice, but I'd upgrade to 7.5.3 or 7.5.5. You get a lot of bug fixes, no more Type 11 errors, Open Transport, better memory management, and way better 68k emulation.
System 7 in general had a LOT of issues.
System 8 was a step in the right direction, but System 8.5 was really where things got cleaned up. If you have a PowerPC Mac.
(This is coming from someone who was on System 7.1 when it was brand spanking new.)
Yep. EyeTV Hybrid on a 1.5Ghz eMac it works pretty well and sounds really good. Doesn't really have enough power to record too much, but it can. I also love playing GameCube via the EyeTV as well.
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Relax about his condition, its not that serious. All things considered the PPC machines that are still around today are pretty much only good as secondary units.
We have about 10 or so G5 towers, a lamp shape iMac and and about three G4 quicksilvers that all are just used to surf the web and type up docs. A few are used to run older versions of ProTools and FCP for SD editing.
Relax about his condition, its not that serious. All things considered the PPC machines that are still around today are pretty much only good as secondary units.
We have about 10 or so G5 towers, a lamp shape iMac and and about three G4 quicksilvers that all are just used to surf the web and type up docs. A few are used to run older versions of ProTools and FCP for SD editing.
You got a Bad link in that.
Nothing aganist the G3s and G4s, but I just sort of view them as nothing more than an early Pentium 4 or Pentium 3 performance wise Anyway, its always struck me that Apple really picked it up with the G5
True, but the early (pre 7.5.3) versions were very fast performers on contemporary 68k machines. Later versions suffered from feature creep.
I had (still have actually) a Quadra 610, and it ran fastest with 7.1.x.
The answer is, it depends on what applications you're running. The 9600XT was a mid-level card at the time. Not really ideal for 3D-heavy applications, but not terrible for some light gaming. It won't do Doom 3 very well at if at all, for example. But it can handle the original Call of Duty.
Is the 1.8 G5 that you're looking at a single or dual? This will play a more important role in the YouTube playback that you asked about earlier (Sorry, topic drift in these types of threads is pretty much a given).
For 3D, I agree with Lord Blackadder. However, if you're comfortable with flashing, you can pick up FireGL X3s on ebay for $40 or so.
how will it compare to a Radeon 9550 AGP 256MB X1600 PRO AGP 512MB and the HD2400Pro 512MB AGP?
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i was thinking of flashing my Radeon 9550 to a apple 9600XT cuz it has 256MB RAM
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i beileve its a single it dont say it isnt
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I have a Power Mac G5 and I do some photo retouching but I cant Buy any newer portrait retouching software because they are NOT compatible with G5 ( NON INTEL) Any suggestions? Thank you. I am NEW to this forum. rollsman
I have a Power Mac G5 and I do some photo retouching but I cant Buy any newer portrait retouching software because they are NOT compatible with G5 ( NON INTEL) Any suggestions? Thank you. I am NEW to this forum. rollsman