TS is looking at a budget of somewhere between 600 and 700. 1500 may be of good value, but TS is more likely to consider something lower.
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G5= worth it?
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TS is looking at a budget of somewhere between 600 and 700. 1500 may be of good value, but TS is more likely to consider something lower.
thanks all, but now it is really time to decide as I have two computers i found cheap...but which one......one is a 1.6GHz powermac g5 (1gb ram, 340gb HD)with apple orb speakers, mouse and keyboard plus 20" studio display for $470, or a macbook 2GHz core duo with 2gb ram and 120gb hard drive for 599 $
MacBook will be more powerful than this G5, that's for sure.
Would the ability of the G5 to hold a 2nd internal HD, to be used as a Photoshop scratch disk, be an advantage? With the G5 you wouldn't be limited with choice of monitors in the future. Ease with which the user can upgrade parts for the G5. Faster internal hard drives available. More long term durability?
I don't know if overall these points are enough advantages over the the MacBook.
Mike
so i have decided to go with a powermac as they are cheap and can be upgraded. My new question is will a 1.6GHz G5 still be good on the internet from now until a year or two? (flash...rendering,etc)
Good choice. I for one wouldn't have gone for the single 1.6 but it will be a nice machine and yes it will defiantly be a good internet machine. Even with the stock graphics card, it will be good on all the flash sites. Be sure to upgrade it to 4GB and that puppy will run pretty damn well.
Of course all the people will chime in and say you should have gotten the macbook but the that G5 will be more then enough for what you say what you need it for.
I'm curious, how can a MacBook be faster than a DP G5 tower ?
Here I use a 2 ghz DP G5, last rev. of the single cores, 4.5 GB RAM; and also a 2nd rev. MBP 2.33 / 2 GB RAM, Tiger on both.
The G5 seems faster in most apps, including heavy Photoshop CS2 and Cinema 4D editing (MBP has CS3 on it).
The G5 sure is a lot snappier when it comes to using the finder, internet and any apps not requiring lots of power.
Here I use a 2 ghz DP G5, last rev. of the single cores, 4.5 GB RAM; and also a 2nd rev. MBP 2.33 / 2 GB RAM, Tiger on both.
The G5 seems faster in most apps, including heavy Photoshop CS2 and Cinema 4D editing (MBP has CS3 on it).
The G5 sure is a lot snappier when it comes to using the finder, internet and any apps not requiring lots of power.
that is interesting....I could believe that in tiger the powerpc would be faster but i dont know about leopard because its built for intel basically
With my very limited memory, yeah I know I'm working on up to 4gb but mine currently runs Leopard very well. Mine has just been encoding movies for the last few days now running 24/7. It's the memory is what makes them really fast.
Put 8 gigs in it and watch yor encoding time really drop. It makes a huge difference.
