Returning to the Power PC world after leaving Intel...

Welcome back, mate.

 

I strongly advise you to get a quad if you want to withstand the coming months, upgrade to 16 gigs of ram and a 7800 gtx etc. you know the drill. Because even my old 2.0ghz dual processor behaves very old especially when editing in final cut pro and it takes 3 days to process a 1 hour 1080p video.

but a quad still feels young when using the right tools and tricks

 

A quad still feels young IF you are running an SMP aware application that makes use of all four cores, remember for most tasks (which are not SMP aware - especially in Leopard) it is only 500mhz faster than your machine.

 

Man I don't think he's ready to go buy another computer..

A quick look at ebay.com/au show's a broken one for 139 and one for 475...

 

Hi,

You wrote:

"Stripping out Intel or PPC code from applications. This makes it impossible to transfer by dragging from one computer to another, you must reinstall from a fresh copy. Annoying. I think now I'll just stick to stripping out foreign languages."

Get Monolingual. It will destroy all non-PowerPC code in Leopard all the way down to the core files. I did that and my G4 PowerBook and Quad run Leopard really nice and fast. Monolingual is also very DANGEROUS, so read up on it before you use it.

Thats one way to strip all Intel code from Leopard.

Welcome back, bro!

 

Yah, those have a reputation, which sadly is entirely deserved. Just Like IBM's Deskstar GXP75 disaster - I've seen a statistic saying they had a half-life of roughly 7 months (for those not versed in half-life ('xcept the game), that means, every 7 months half of those remaining have died).

Anyway, The 8600M -debacle is a sad story for Apple, and I think apple handled it far worse than antennagate. I do not know what deal Apple reached with nVidia, but from the end-user's standpoint Apple is the only natural target for blame.

That said, whenever you see some political action (wherever you are) for stronger consumer advocacy or consumer rights legislation - support it. With a product as faulty as those MBP's are, there should be no question that Apple is responsible for exchanging a broken-by-design machine against a working one - no matter whether you're on warranty or not.

OP, sad to hear your story, but happy you can make do with the G5. My personal opinion is to not invest any more money on a PMG5 (unless it's as minor as adding RAM), rather save the money for your next newer rig.

RGDS,

 

Yeah this story from last year http://www.macrumors.com/2012/04/19...-in-small-claims-case-on-nvidia-gpu-failures/ tell's you everything you need to know about apple especially when it doesn't cost them to replace the logic board because nvidia pays for it, just shows that apple handled it really badly which is unusual because they delt with the cracks on my 2010 white MacBook really well.

 

Stripping non-native code out of fat binaries frees maybe a couple hundred MBs at best, and has no performance benefit whatsoever. Considering the headaches this causes, it's really not worth doing.

 

It was not just Apple that handled it bad I had the same issue with an Asus gaming laptop, nvidia paid $2 million over this issue and all i got when my 8600mgt died was the finger, or If i wanted it fixed with the same 8600mgt it would of cost me £600 for a so called repair, that was my last Asus product I'm buying

 

And this is why I myself went with an older, slower X1600 based MBP. It's crazy on paper - an early 2008 2.5GHz, 512MB 8600M GT Mountain Lion capable MBP will go for a lower price than a 2006 2.0/2.16GHz, unsupported X1600 MBP because no-one wants the damn things!

 

BTW wich are the most realiables MBP? from what year.

ahh... welcome back the powerPC

 

Bar the 8/9600M GT MBP's sold through 2007 & 2008 - they're all rock solid machines.

 

are nvidia chips equiped?
even better than the old 2006 models?
wich is more reliable the macbook or the MBP?

thanks.

 

Although it is said as over, you can always try bringing the computer to an apple store:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377

I've heard of a sucess story to a friend of mine.

 

I don't know what kind of shop have you bought it, but first it's nice that it has warranty.
Since a new logicboard on apple is about 800eur from what I can remember, maybe you will get money back, or a used logicboard.
If a second hand logic board is fitted:
1 - go to an apple store, act like a newbie, and say that you saw that you saw this: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377 and you want to have a test made or something (maybe apple covers it).

2- If they don't try to phone apple, say that you have been a loyal buyer and that you aren't happy with this sittuation (maybe the will repair you or give a new computer).

3- sell it.I will give you problems anytime soon.

AFAIK only rev2 motherboards aren't supposed to be problematic on this mbps, but I've seen it failing, and the user having a new mbp because of that!

 

There are no good 8600M boards.

 

The info that I gave was given to me on apple support.But I agree with you