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How Old is your Current System?
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3 Years and Still Perfect!
My dual 2.5 G5 was 3 years old in June. I bought AppleCare and have never had to call them about anything. I plan on buying a new Mac Pro whenever they are updated, but for now, my G5 is still working great, particularly for PhotoShop CS3. This has been the best computer that I've ever owned.
My dual 2.5 G5 was 3 years old in June. I bought AppleCare and have never had to call them about anything. I plan on buying a new Mac Pro whenever they are updated, but for now, my G5 is still working great, particularly for PhotoShop CS3. This has been the best computer that I've ever owned.
Can't believe I'm still rockin' out this PowerMac G4 Dual 800mhz.... MHZ!!!!!!!! Craziness I tell you. Not buying the MacPro til the next update. Then I will be rockin' that thing with the highest graphics card possible and 6 gigs of memory. Can't wait!
Home mac is a July 2001 purchased PowerMac 667mhz "Digital Audio" that has a Sonnet 1.4ghz processor card; 1 GB Ram; 60gb hard drive (300gb external firewire drive); Superdrive and Geforce MX 32mb video card. Runs okay for most of what I do, slow for any real Photoshop work so I'm seriously itching for a MacPro.
Work mac is a 2 Ghz Intel Core Duo MacBook Pro with 1 gb Ram.
Work mac is a 2 Ghz Intel Core Duo MacBook Pro with 1 gb Ram.
as for me. still running on G5 June 2004 (2.0GHz version) lol with 512mb of memory with the standard 64mb of video memory and 160GB hard-drive. . lol
everything is just basic from the start with the clear casing apple cinema display. our applecare warranty ended this year (june 2007, hopefully it last thorough the begining of next year)
as for updating this machine. ill just upgrade the ram and get an external hard-drive.
planning to get a mac pro hopefully around January - February 2008 time
but yet i still feel obsolete . .
everything is just basic from the start with the clear casing apple cinema display. our applecare warranty ended this year (june 2007, hopefully it last thorough the begining of next year)
as for updating this machine. ill just upgrade the ram and get an external hard-drive.
planning to get a mac pro hopefully around January - February 2008 time
but yet i still feel obsolete . .
Obsolete King
I assembled my last and current PC myself in... 2001 !! Still running Windows 2000 Pro as I found XP too insulting and drew the line there.
I would describe it right now as a shiny stupidly noisy box full of crap.
I bought my first mac in early 2005: a beautiful G4 powerbook 17", second hand but as new. It is actually set up as a desktop, with a huge second monitor and 1.5 TB external storage.
It looks like my next desktop is going to be again second hand, given that Apple is not updating the MP line and I need it now.
So yes I am yet another mac-converted but still Apple hasn't seen a cent from my pockets.
I assembled my last and current PC myself in... 2001 !! Still running Windows 2000 Pro as I found XP too insulting and drew the line there.
I would describe it right now as a shiny stupidly noisy box full of crap.
I bought my first mac in early 2005: a beautiful G4 powerbook 17", second hand but as new. It is actually set up as a desktop, with a huge second monitor and 1.5 TB external storage.
It looks like my next desktop is going to be again second hand, given that Apple is not updating the MP line and I need it now.
So yes I am yet another mac-converted but still Apple hasn't seen a cent from my pockets.
8.5 years old. That's about 60 in dog years.
The upgraded B&W G3 in my sig is my only computer, and it's getting long in the tooth.
The "-1" for the year must mean 1998. I bought my computer in January 1999, so it was probably manufactured in Dec 1998.
And I'll keep running this old dog until Apple offers something upgradeable for less than $2,000. Steve may think we live in an "all-in-one world," but I respectfully disagree.
Andrew
The upgraded B&W G3 in my sig is my only computer, and it's getting long in the tooth.
The "-1" for the year must mean 1998. I bought my computer in January 1999, so it was probably manufactured in Dec 1998.
And I'll keep running this old dog until Apple offers something upgradeable for less than $2,000. Steve may think we live in an "all-in-one world," but I respectfully disagree.
Andrew
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I keep saying I'm gonna wait til September to see if there is announcement of a new mac pro. I am pretty much at my boiling point and tempted to buy one tomorrow during tax free day. Editing on my G4 is started to get laggier and laggier. Don't know what to do.
I think I might just get it. The thing would blow away my current POS. If anything I could try and do the sell route someday. With my luck, I'll buy tomorrow and the announcement will come Monday that September 25th the new MacPros come out. Ahhhhhhhhh! Going crazy!
I think I might just get it. The thing would blow away my current POS. If anything I could try and do the sell route someday. With my luck, I'll buy tomorrow and the announcement will come Monday that September 25th the new MacPros come out. Ahhhhhhhhh! Going crazy!
My dual 800 processor board is dead but that was one odd machine. It would work like crazy but it seemed to have all sorts of little incompatibilities.
I'm now working on a 1.33 GHz PowerBook 15.2 inch that almost suffered a similar fate with the fans. The PowerBook processor has similar power to the two G4s on the PowerMac.
REV B Dual 2.0GHz G5 PowerMac.
(added 2.5 GB Ram, 2nd Hard Drive)
Bought about 2004 I think.
Will be getting a Mac Pro 8 Core when the new ones arrive for my final project (Music Video) at Uni.
(added 2.5 GB Ram, 2nd Hard Drive)
Bought about 2004 I think.
Will be getting a Mac Pro 8 Core when the new ones arrive for my final project (Music Video) at Uni.
My iMac was built between Sept 12-18 2005 in Shanghai. Bought it in Oct 2005. I still feel like I just got it yesterday.
I tend to get a new computer every 2 or 3 years. I just got a Mac Pro this summer 2007. I hope it breaks my cycle. The oldest maching in the house is a Gateway Profile 5 which is about 4 years. I also have a PPC iMac pre-camera from late 2004. So to answer your question...current system is new.
I bought the very last rev dual-core G5 PowerMac last April, so it's about a year and a half. I absolutely love it. I'll have it a long time, I'm sure. My iBook G4 seems to be doing fine too, even though it's over three years old. I've never had a problem and am not noticing any sort of slow down. I would love to get a new laptop, but I'm not happy with the current offerings.
With all the folks that post their new machines, I never realized how many older systems are still plugging away.
Mine is a 3, almost 3.5 year old, PB15/1.25 (I bought it 17 days before the bump). It came stock, and it is still stock. I may upgrade the RAM in the next few months though. By this time on my previous machine I had killed two batteries and maxed out my memory.
Mine is a 3, almost 3.5 year old, PB15/1.25 (I bought it 17 days before the bump). It came stock, and it is still stock. I may upgrade the RAM in the next few months though. By this time on my previous machine I had killed two batteries and maxed out my memory.
hey mr.M.J. , I was thinking of the same for mine, but then realized he has seen more than most folk born before 1959. any ideas for a Mac drinking game? Used to play "Captain" in the 90's. Star Trek next gen. Every time someone said captain, you had to take a swig. Once did a marathon with the series and two movies... no memory of this event whatsoever, except the aftermath.
Three new macs... all old ones
I just completed my prosperous round of Macquisition.
The totals:
1x 1Ghz iMac (lamp) G4, it absolutely runs like a dream, given to my fiance
1x 450mHz G4 Cube (music/file server in progress)
1x iMac G5 (Rev B. I think?), becoming my main machine
all of these things so severely beat the pants off of my seven year old Dell that it brought me to tears the first time I used Photoshop on a Mac. They may be old, they may be used, but DANG do they beat using Windows.
I plan on getting whatever incarnation of the Mac Pro exists sometime in the next four years between my pre-clinical and clinical years of medical school. I swore I would go another three years at least before drop any cashish on new hardware.
I just completed my prosperous round of Macquisition.
The totals:
1x 1Ghz iMac (lamp) G4, it absolutely runs like a dream, given to my fiance
1x 450mHz G4 Cube (music/file server in progress)
1x iMac G5 (Rev B. I think?), becoming my main machine
all of these things so severely beat the pants off of my seven year old Dell that it brought me to tears the first time I used Photoshop on a Mac. They may be old, they may be used, but DANG do they beat using Windows.
I plan on getting whatever incarnation of the Mac Pro exists sometime in the next four years between my pre-clinical and clinical years of medical school. I swore I would go another three years at least before drop any cashish on new hardware.
Those are still very capable macs. I use the g4 cube as my desktop and for my uses is great. All you need now is the laptop to go with them. Might I suggest a pismo?
. Might I suggest a pismo?