Upgrade my eMac?

[Nameci]

Sheeeet! I will trade you 3 PM G4s for your mini.

BTW, why does the wow factor fade so fast on a mini? It couldn't be any worse than my air.

I find the whole "mini" thing boring. Do I need an i7 to do my work, maybe yes. Even with the latest mini, it will not cut it for my work. I need workstation class gfx card which the mini doesn't have. Even my quad benches less but I have lot of love for it.

I find the latest iterations of OSX boring, like there is no life. Fancy, yes. More focus on cloud apps, games which I am not really fond of and inclined to do.

I do CAD work on the powermac and fancy OS is not what I need. A mac pro maybe, but I feel that it is an overkill.

My philosopy in life is that, the simpler we live the better. I need just "enough" horsepower, not too much not too little. And the powermac serves it right on the spot with what I do. It is easier to work with, change HDD's or upgrade it, it has an optical drive, DVI output, FW800/400, Bluetooth and Airport, expansion slots, almost anything that a mac pro can offer, except for the number of drive bays a mac pro has.

Consider how hard it is to upgrade a hard disk on a mini? On a power mac it is easy, flip a door and everything is there, easily accessible.

 

[Seth Mac Fan]

I find the whole "mini" thing boring. Do I need an i7 to do my work, maybe yes. Even with the latest mini, it will not cut it for my work. I need workstation class gfx card which the mini doesn't have. Even my quad benches less but I have lot of love for it.

I find the latest iterations of OSX boring, like there is no life. Fancy, yes. More focus on cloud apps, games which I am not really fond of and inclined to do.

I do CAD work on the powermac and fancy OS is not what I need. A mac pro maybe, but I feel that it is an overkill.

My philosopy in life is that, the simpler we live the better. I need just "enough" horsepower, not too much not too little. And the powermac serves it right on the spot with what I do. It is easier to work with, change HDD's or upgrade it, it has an optical drive, DVI output, FW800/400, Bluetooth and Airport, expansion slots, almost anything that a mac pro can offer, except for the number of drive bays a mac pro has.

Consider how hard it is to upgrade a hard disk on a mini? On a power mac it is easy, flip a door and everything is there, easily accessible.

Just wondering what version of mac os x do you run ? 10.4 tiger or 10.5 leopard ?

 

[Nameci]

Just wondering what version of mac os x do you run ? 10.4 tiger or 10.5 leopard ?

Leopard on dual processor powermac G4's, PowerBook G4, iBook G4 and powermac G5's. Tiger on the PCI Graphics powermac G4, and OS9 on my B&W powermac G3.

 

[Zeke D]

Don't tell anyone else on the forums, but I downgraded both my intel MacBooks to snow because lion is a pos. I still believe lion is apple's Vista. Now I gotta pay $20 for mountain and hope it is Apple's win 7? Bull crap! Lion wouldn't even run decently on my 2011 MBP. All that stupid eye candy and lame crap makes for a substandard os, and apple should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[Seth Mac Fan]

Leopard on dual processor powermac G4's, PowerBook G4, iBook G4 and powermac G5's. Tiger on the PCI Graphics powermac G4, and OS9 on my B&W powermac G3.

Wow , lol that is a lot fo power pc macs , you must really like power pc .

 

[Nameci]

Wow , lol that is a lot fo power pc macs , you must really like power pc .

See my sig?

 

[Seth Mac Fan]

See my sig?

Ohh you mean signature yeah I like power pc but you are truly a fanatic . Did you buy all of those when they came out or did you buy them used ? I bought my powermac when it came out years ago .

 

[alexreich]

Sheeeet! I will trade you 3 PM G4s for your mini.

BTW, why does the wow factor fade so fast on a mini? It couldn't be any worse than my air.

If you're talking about mine I'm not selling. Haha. I won't ever sell it.

 

[Zeke D]

See my sig?

Meh, I'm sporting the following:

Pm g4 da times four (3 733mhz & 1 dual 533)
Pm g4 sawtooth think it is a 450?
iBook g4 12"
iMac g3 x2 (600 MHz & 700 MHz)
Pm g5 dual 2.0
Emac 1ghz

The following are in my garage, non functional:
Pm g5 dual 1.8
iMac g3 500mhz
Pm g3 b&w 300mhz?

I'm waiting to be featured on an episode of hoarders.

 

[Seth Mac Fan]

I'm waiting to be featured on an episode of hoarders.

Lol , yeah that would be funny too see old macs on hoarders , but it would be sad to see them thrown away in the trash .

 

[TacticalDesire]

I get excited when I am about to go home from the field because of the powermac waiting for me. Lol!

I get like that with my machines after I've been on the road too. I thought it was just me

 

[quasinormal]

Even on a 1.42GHz G4 with 2GB of RAM?

I found Tiger much better on this same machine and 4600Ti GPU. It was noticeably laggy in finder with 10.5. Leopard was fine on 1.67GHz Powerbook and 2.1Ghz G5 imac.

 

[Seth Mac Fan]

I found Tiger much better on this same machine and 4600Ti GPU. It was noticeably laggy in finder with 10.5. Leopard was fine on 1.67GHz Powerbook and 2.1Ghz G5 imac.

Tiger is faster on all power pc macs , even on the G5 in my opinion . With that said leopard has much better software if you have a big of enough hard drive or a firewire external hard drive I would reccomend you guys dual boot leopard and tiger you can have the best of both worlds if you want to .

 

[zen.state]

Tiger is faster on all power pc macs

Oh really? I guess my two Sawtooth's must have magic powers then because they are both faster on Leopard.

You're the same guy that asked what OS you should run in the "Tiger or Leopard?" thread. So you don't even know which OS you should run yourself yet you tell others what is best for them as if you know. I'm confused.