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PowerMac G5 Use in 2016
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Totally get that. It's amazing how the design industry (and I speak in totality, not just graphic design) which is heavily driven by change has so many practicioners that are opposed to change themselves. One designer once sent me a PDF produced in XPress 4.11. She claimed she would NEVER upgrade to anything else.
I have no great love for InDesign, but at a certain point I told myself that I needed to learn this tool if I wanted to remain relevant. So, I compromised and switched my department to it so that I was forced to learn it on a daily basis (because I had to use it) - but got on the job paid training for it.
Getting our editor to move from PM7 to IDCS2 was the last step. She was a Quark user first, but our shop used PM when she came on. She eventually moved over but it took awhile. None of which affected us as far as what program to use but as long as she remained on PM7 I had to keep an old compatibility process functioning.
In my personal life, I do hate change, but if I want to survive and remain relevant in my job (even when I hit 70) I HAVE to keep up. I HAVE to be open to change in both tools and process. This industry moves too fast to be stuck in the past.
Beyond that though…I want to know what's next! What are the trends and what's shaping the industry. Change or die.
I can't deny I've grown to be comfortable with PM7 even if it is ancient in style and what it can do. It does the job though I would be happier if we could upgrade. It would make life easier in general. Then again I have to keep Microsoft Works 4.5 (1995 software) handy for database access.
Normal internet browsing, 480p flash youtube under Safari, google docs, applications such as Office 2008. Normal stuff like that. I've also used iMovie '09 on it a few times and it ran okay with 4:3 480p video but I'd imagine a better GPU would boost that up
If your G5 has arrived, when you set it up, what apps do you need, there are several archives of PowerPC compatible OS X apps.
And I have my own archive of them as well(but only for Leopard).
And I have my own archive of them as well(but only for Leopard).
Totally get that. It's amazing how the design industry (and I speak in totality, not just graphic design) which is heavily driven by change has so many practicioners that are opposed to change themselves. One designer once sent me a PDF produced in XPress 4.11. She claimed she would NEVER upgrade to anything else.
I have no great love for InDesign, but at a certain point I told myself that I needed to learn this tool if I wanted to remain relevant. So, I compromised and switched my department to it so that I was forced to learn it on a daily basis (because I had to use it) - but got on the job paid training for it.
Getting our editor to move from PM7 to IDCS2 was the last step.
Because CS2 is so bleeding edge!
LOL!Because CS2 is so bleeding edge!
Yeah it was current when we got it and a year out of date when the editor finally started using it. Getting it updated is a battle I realized I have no chance of winning until the damn thing breaks or we can no longer produce with it.
We didn't move to Windows 7 on the PCs in our shop until early 2014 if that tells you anything.
LOL!
Yeah it was current when we got it and a year out of date when the editor finally started using it. Getting it updated is a battle I realized I have no chance of winning until the damn thing breaks or we can no longer produce with it.
We didn't move to Windows 7 on the PCs in our shop until early 2014 if that tells you anything.
Wow, your shop is very slow to change. Are you still using CRT's, in some places where they only upgrade when the old stuff breaks, a magnet left under the CRT overnight will convince the managers to replace the screens with LCD's
Yes, a couple of our computers have CRTs. The boss has had to replace a few over time though so we have more LCDs now. But there was a time…
I work for a weekly newspaper and we have 11 employees in total. Only two of those (myself and my coworker) are composing/production.
I go after updates/upgrades aggressively when and where I can for my department. I like your suggestion, but that won't help me as the boss will just adapt to living with the problem until he no longer can. Which can take years.
Yes, a couple of our computers have CRTs. The boss has had to replace a few over time though so we have more LCDs now. But there was a time…
I work for a weekly newspaper and we have 11 employees in total. Only two of those (myself and my coworker) are composing/production.
I go after updates/upgrades aggressively when and where I can for my department. I like your suggestion, but that won't help me as the boss will just adapt to living with the problem until he no longer can. Which can take years.
Well, I guess any updates you can get are better than no updates.
Oh, I saw your sig, do you really have 6 monitors hooked up to one Mac? or is there more than one Mac?
I only have one monitor(which is also a TV), it is hooked up to my laptop(It is a Core 2 Duo not PowerPC, I just got it to replace a C2D chromebook conversion that broke), and my Hackintosh(an HP Pavilion with Pentium Dual Core E5300, G33 GMA3100 graphics, 6GB of RAM, running Yosemite, in VESA because I do not have a compatible GPU).
It's one Mac, six displays.
Click on the link in my signature (where it says 6 displays).
It takes three video cards, but it's possible and if you click on the link you'll see.
It's one Mac, six displays.
Click on the link in my signature (where it says 6 displays).
It takes three video cards, but it's possible and if you click on the link you'll see.
Ah, I see now, you probably have more Video-RAM than main system RAM LOL.
Actually, in Linux, you can use Video-RAM as SWAP, I wonder if this is possible in OS X, or use it as a RAM-disk.