You're using it to keep your house warm?
(just kidding; I have a G5 2,0 DP and I love that thing)
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PowerMac G5 1.8ghz Dual Core Good?
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You're using it to keep your house warm?
(just kidding; I have a G5 2,0 DP and I love that thing)
The G5 Dual Core is a really nice computer, and quite fast, if you're using it for the right things with the right software. Using it for HD video editing is NOT the right things. I would, as most other here, recomend to buy an Intel Mac. Otherwise, you're gonna be disappointed.
The main reason i can see to get a PMG5 is if you need the possability to add extra HD, PCI slots and so on (and are fine with G5) and/or already got a good monitor, keyboard and mouse and don't need the power of an Intel Mac.
Then we have this thing with web browsing...
The main reason i can see to get a PMG5 is if you need the possability to add extra HD, PCI slots and so on (and are fine with G5) and/or already got a good monitor, keyboard and mouse and don't need the power of an Intel Mac.
Then we have this thing with web browsing...
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AFAIK, there is no 1.8GHz dual-core. Dual cores starts at 2.0, 2.3 and ends up at dual dual core or 2.5 quad.
If it is 1.8GHz, it is either a single or a dual processor.
If it is 1.8GHz, it is either a single or a dual processor.
What kind of work do you do with it? I am not saying it cannot be done but I am saying that it is the wrong tool for the job in this day and age.
You're using it to keep your house warm?
(just kidding; I have a G5 2,0 DP and I love that thing)
I use my G5 to heat my workshop (seriously). That building gets free electricity, so why not? The only time it wasn't able to keep up was this past winter when the temperatures got around and below 0F. Then I had to put a little space heater in there to help.
I don't think you read the entire sentence or took the wrong half of the sentence to focus on.
You're using it to keep your house warm?
(just kidding; I have a G5 2,0 DP and I love that thing)
I love my G5, and it works well. It also generates some heat, enough for the one room without any kind of heater to be halfway comfortable, especially with some more processor-intensive activities (like video work--set it, forget it, and warm the room).
On the G5? I use iMovie, because the older versions of it were insanely flexible when it came to editing video. The older versions of iMovie are better than you think.
On my Intel mini, my default editor is now Final Cut Pro, because the new iMovie is very inflexible.
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I don't think you read the entire sentence or took the wrong half of the sentence to focus on.
I love my G5, and it works well. It also generates some heat, enough for the one room without any kind of heater to be halfway comfortable, especially with some more processor-intensive activities (like video work--set it, forget it, and warm the room).
I get it now...
About a week ago I saved a 1.8 Dual G5 from certain doom, getting it for free from a corporate liquidation. It didn't come with a hard drive or RAM, and had lots of stickers (interestingly it was used at Toshiba) on it and was rather dusty. I cleaned it up, put in a 120GB 7200RPM hard drive, and added 3GB of RAM I had and it's now running Leopard perfectly.
This is the first PPC Mac I've tinkered with and so far am rather impressed with it, considering that it just hit over 10 years old. The OS is snappy, Internet browsing works fine (though it does get slow on some sites), and apps for that era like Office 2004 and even iWork 2009 work great. It still seems to be a very capable machine for basic tasks. There's even a version of Dropbox that works with PPC!
Now that it's working, I thought about keeping it but considering I have a 2009 mini as a local media server and a 15" rMBP, I don't have much use for it and it does take up a lot of space in my apartment. I'm going to see if I can find someone who needs or can use it and hopefully it'll find a new home.
Anyway, from my brief experience I think they are still good machines for basic tasks and using software of it's time, though I don't think I'd use it as my main computer.
This is the first PPC Mac I've tinkered with and so far am rather impressed with it, considering that it just hit over 10 years old. The OS is snappy, Internet browsing works fine (though it does get slow on some sites), and apps for that era like Office 2004 and even iWork 2009 work great. It still seems to be a very capable machine for basic tasks. There's even a version of Dropbox that works with PPC!
Now that it's working, I thought about keeping it but considering I have a 2009 mini as a local media server and a 15" rMBP, I don't have much use for it and it does take up a lot of space in my apartment. I'm going to see if I can find someone who needs or can use it and hopefully it'll find a new home.
Anyway, from my brief experience I think they are still good machines for basic tasks and using software of it's time, though I don't think I'd use it as my main computer.