Do you have any concern about 10.5 not supporting TRIM on the SSDs, or do the newer SSDs compensate for that internally?
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What keeps you on the PPC platform?
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Do you have any concern about 10.5 not supporting TRIM on the SSDs, or do the newer SSDs compensate for that internally?
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Sandforce drives do the garbage collection on the controller, so no need for TRIM. I use a 240gb pata ssd to great effect.
The reason I still use a power pc is because I have a great piece of luggage that accommodates the 12" pb and I love that form factor! Mostly it is my TeX book for lesson planning and music server these days.
The reason I still use a power pc is because I have a great piece of luggage that accommodates the 12" pb and I love that form factor! Mostly it is my TeX book for lesson planning and music server these days.
There is no TRIM support in Leopard, but I am not concerned with it at all. If you have SF controllers I guess they have provisioning and garbage collection built-in...
I may go take a look at that PowerMac G5 Quad some time in the next few days if I am able to travel and inspect it. I will also look at the cooling system to see if there is anything suspicious. I think it has Bluetooth and an Airport card built in and functional (so I assume it has the antennas). Not sure about keyboard and mouse yet, but I have a few Apple keyboards and mice laying around.
Antennas for the quad are built in on the case, no need to worry about compared with the previous iterations of the powermac.
I am waiting for a free quad powermac given by a friend as well...
I am waiting for a free quad powermac given by a friend as well...
It's a machine from his graphic studio. He upgraded everything to Intel and he told me that he need to shell out some money just to dispose it. There is no use for it anymore on his studio. I paid for the shipping and I got it for free. Good deal huh?
You very very lucky person! Very jealous person right here...
Couldn't he have sold it for $$$?
As a friend I have done something for him for free, so he is just returning the favor. He has a graphics studio and a digital printing shop, and I am a printer tech support so we get along very well.
Aaaa..... symbiosis
I myself lust for a 12" PB. One day, one day....
and a iMac G4 aka iLamp, and a iBook Clamshell FW and a iMac G3 DV/FW and a.... EDIT:
Had a PM G4 (quicksilver i think) with upgraded processor, a ton of storage and RAM and a 20" Apple Cinema Display, don´t remember if it was free or I paid 500SEK ~$73USD. But donated it to a friend that still use it as his daily driver with OS X Leopard
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Heh. I don't know if you meant that to be funny, but it is--Especially since you spelled symbiosis correctly.
Heh. I don't know if you meant that to be funny, but it is--Especially since you spelled symbiosis correctly.
You can see he posted that his currency is SEK, so he must have got to grips with the English language pretty well! Good on ya'
If you do any before & after benchmarks, would you mind posting them? I have a friend who wants to trade a 15'' 1.67 for my flashlight. I'm thinking about doing it. It's in pristine condition.
I will get the before and after scores, geek bench, xbench and aja.
Is it a 15" Hires? If its the hires trade it then. The 1440x960 ppi is just awesome. Lots of real estate.
Is it a 15" Hires? If its the hires trade it then. The 1440x960 ppi is just awesome. Lots of real estate.
If you're going SSD then go all the way and get a top performer.
The only ones I would ever buy (for IDE):
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Legacy_Pro
FYI.. Geekbench doesn't test the HD at all.
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In answer to the title question, what keeps me on the PPC platform is money. I can't get a job yet, but when I do, I'll probably save up for a Macbook air. Right now, I have an iBook, which has been working amazingly ever since I got it last year. For now, I love it
I know but just for out of curiosity, most people would ask for the geekbench score. I am not really a true believer of geekbench because of the inconsistencies on the results. You test the same machine with a small time interval and you would get different results.
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That's strange- I will see if my machines are inconsistent as well. That sure takes away from its integrity.
That's strange- I will see if my machines are inconsistent as well. That sure takes away from its integrity.
99% of Mac users that have any real benchmark experience would totally disagree with what WGoins88 claims. Xbench is the inconsistent one.
Those GB variances are all within single digit discrepancies which is totsally acceptable. Xbench on the other hand can vary as much as 10-20% in it's scores.
Anyone who ever claims Xbench is consistent has no idea what they're saying at all. Please don't waste time based on his delusions.
Those GB variances are all within single digit discrepancies which is totsally acceptable. Xbench on the other hand can vary as much as 10-20% in it's scores.
Anyone who ever claims Xbench is consistent has no idea what they're saying at all. Please don't waste time based on his delusions.
Cinebench is the best in terms of consistent scores. It does heavy CPU and GPU testing but like Geekbench it doesn't test the HD at all. I recommend the older Cinebench 9.5 on 10.4 or 10.5 with PowerPC systems. I say 9.5 as it's the most consistent version results-wise in my experience.
For HD I would use the Aja you already mentioned. I use that and and Quickbench for HD tests and both are extremely consistent. If you have ever bought an external HD or anything like that from OWC it may have come with SpeedTools which includes Quickbench. Otherwise you would have to buy it.
Even though I bought an Intel iMac a few months ago, I still use my old G4 notebook as a portable/netbook. It was my primary computer before buying the iMac. Today, it's perfect for the low-level tasks that it's mainly used for. I want to replace it with a MacBook Pro but I'm waiting for the Ivy Bridge update though I am really reconsidering buying the MacBook Pro as I don't see myself doing any heavy computing on the go and sticking with the G4.