Off to check out this MDD

[redheeler]

My dual 867 MDD replaced my single 1.6 GHz powermac G5, and I'm happier than a kid in a candy store..haha. The dual processors make multitasking so much nicer than the single G5, and it just feels all around snappier, plus I like the looks a heck of a lot more than the cheese grater G5. Not to mention I don't even have to move it to work on it, just fold down the side door and BAM, there's the logic board.

That's quite interesting, considering the 1.6 G5 should be faster than a dual 867 MDD in nearly every way.

 

[KingKen1986]

I can remember sitting there at work around the time that the G5s were rumored and looking up info on them in Netscape Navigator under OS9. This was on what was probably a G4 AGP (I was not paying attention to Apple at the time).

Once I saw a pic it was instant dislike. I've never cared for the cheese grater look. About the only thing good I could say at the time was "Well, at least Apple is finally moving to full-sized towers." Being a PC person at the time that built my own PCs this was one of my standards then.

Fast forward to now and while I still don't care for the look, I've used a G5 for over eight years daily and I have respect for what the machines can do. Even my 1.8Ghz (single) G5 pulled this off without breaking a sweat. Which is more than I can say for the repeated annoying, niggling issues I have with the cheese grater Mac Pro on my desk (did I mention I hate Yosemite?).

All the way around I much prefer the look and design of the G4s, even the early ones which are really not my cup of tea.

I day to day have to work on PC's, which is the very reason I prefer to use PowerPC Mac's as my personal computers, I also have a liquid cooled linux gaming computer running Ubuntu, but I never use it. Using my Power Mac G4 really brings me back to a time when Mac's were their own thing, when they did function over form instead of nowadays it's completely form over function. The logic board folding down with the side panel on the G4's is a perfect example of that. Not having to lay the computer on its side and stick your hands in cramped quarters and cut yourself and bleed all over the motherboard in a pc...lol (done that a few times). That's what makes a Mac a Mac to me, and I just don't see that in the new machines Mac makes, I'm devoted to using This Power Mac G4 and I already ordered the pci sata controller, the 3112 chipset, and am going to add 2 10,000 rpm HDD's in raid 0. Looking forward to that. But I just love using literal history as my personal computer.

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That's quite interesting, considering the 1.6 G5 should be faster than a dual 867 MDD in nearly every way.

Actually, no it's not, especially when it comes to multitasking, and they actually benchmark around the same on 10.5.8 on geekbench. That is a first gen G5 at the lowest clock speed available with 1 processor. The G4's are next to the last gen of G4's in my Power Mac G4, My Power Mac G4 also has 2 AltiVec vector processing units, the Power Mac G5 has 1. Just because it is 64 bit doesn't mean it's going to stomp a dual processor G4 at slower clock speeds.

I must also add the 1.6 G5 has no level 3 cache.

 

[eyoungren]

I day to day have to work on PC's, which is the very reason I prefer to use PowerPC Mac's as my personal computers, I also have a liquid cooled linux gaming computer running Ubuntu, but I never use it. Using my Power Mac G4 really brings me back to a time when Mac's were their own thing, when they did function over form instead of nowadays it's completely form over function. The logic board folding down with the side panel on the G4's is a perfect example of that. Not having to lay the computer on its side and stick your hands in cramped quarters and cut yourself and bleed all over the motherboard in a pc...lol (done that a few times). That's what makes a Mac a Mac to me, and I just don't see that in the new machines Mac makes, I'm devoted to using This Power Mac G4 and I already ordered the pci sata controller, the 3112 chipset, and am going to add 2 10,000 rpm HDD's in raid 0. Looking forward to that. But I just love using literal history as my personal computer.

I agree.

I have this theory that any time I work inside a computer (Mac or PC) it always takes a piece of me. A nick, a cut, something. It's always happened. When I replaced the LCVDS cable on my PowerBook the nasty little hooks on the inside of the LCD back panel took their due. Bled all over the damn back panel!

When I first started at my current job it was PC only. I was fortunate that as I was replacing the only person in the department AND that they did have one Mac at the time that I was able to switch to that Mac and create a process that allows me to continue to work in QuarkXPress/Mac while the editorial staff worked in Pagewrecker (Pagemaker)/PC.

Later we got the G5 and the second G4 in the shop came back to us so we are wholly Mac back here compared to being wholly PC when I started.

But I like these Macs also for the expandability. In 2003 there would have been absolutely no way I could possibly have afforded anything like I have now with everything I've done to my Quicksilver. But I can do it now. And I have. So, I literally have the machine I would have wanted back then.

The fact that it still performs is absolutely the big draw for me. This would be one thing if I was doing this because I'm a collector and not expecting the Mac to do anything because tech-wise it just couldn't. But, my G4 (and my other PowerPC Macs) prove their longevity every day. It's just amazing to me.

 

[KingKen1986]

I agree.

I have this theory that any time I work inside a computer (Mac or PC) it always takes a piece of me. A nick, a cut, something. It's always happened. When I replaced the LCVDS cable on my PowerBook the nasty little hooks on the inside of the LCD back panel took their due. Bled all over the damn back panel!

When I first started at my current job it was PC only. I was fortunate that as I was replacing the only person in the department AND that they did have one Mac at the time that I was able to switch to that Mac and create a process that allows me to continue to work in QuarkXPress/Mac while the editorial staff worked in Pagewrecker (Pagemaker)/PC.

Later we got the G5 and the second G4 in the shop came back to us so we are wholly Mac back here compared to being wholly PC when I started.

But I like these Macs also for the expandability. In 2003 there would have been absolutely no way I could possibly have afforded anything like I have now with everything I've done to my Quicksilver. But I can do it now. And I have. So, I literally have the machine I would have wanted back then.

The fact that it still performs is absolutely the big draw for me. This would be one thing if I was doing this because I'm a collector and not expecting the Mac to do anything because tech-wise it just couldn't. But, my G4 (and my other PowerPC Macs) prove their longevity every day. It's just amazing to me.

Speaking of upgradability, I just ordered a four port silicon image 3124 pci sata controller with raid, and 2 80GB 10,000 rpm HDD's that are going in a raid 0 configuration, oh happy day.

 

[redheeler]

Speaking of upgradability, I just ordered a four port silicon image 3124 pci sata controller with raid, and 2 80GB 10,000 rpm HDD's that are going in a raid 0 configuration, oh happy day.

That's quite impressive... although I wonder why you didn't go with SSDs

 

[KingKen1986]

That's quite impressive... although I wonder why you didn't go with SSDs

Haha, I wold have loved to, but it all came down to price, it would have been about 150 dollars more to do two SSD's, and I figure 2 10000 rpm HDD's in raid 0 will be plenty snappy for the budget I had.