My Sawtooth is fully capable of supporting dual monitors (dual, not just mirrored) with its factory video card, but it does not support Quartz Extreme. I have no idea what that really means; the only difference I'm aware of in practical terms is that in fast user switching (available only under Panther), I don't get the cool rotating cube effect. But I don't have any complaints about the quality of the display, or the speed of screen re-draws or anything.
I saw Eric's reply about just continuing to use your PC as a server. He's probably right; you probably don't need to switch to a Mac for your server. But should you want to, you can probably use just about any old Mac. I've heard of people using *really* old Macs as servers, but .... why? Some more information about what it's actually "serving" would help. If you want to host a Web site, for example, a Mac is extremely easy to set up as a Web server, probably easier than any Windows box ever dreamed of being, but if you use .asp pages on your site, then the Mac's Unix/Apache Web serving won't fill the bill. But if your current server works, why bother messing with it?
I'm glad to hear that with your IT background you're open to trying the "Mac way." Yes, I think you'll really like it. But I have to recommend going no older than the Sawtooth. Newer is always better, of course, but if you're going to buy an older used Mac, I really don't think you could go wrong with the Sawtooth.
Sonja
At 2:14 PM -0600 02/19/04, Rad Craig wrote:
Thanks for the info Sonja. Since it has an AGP card, I may not even need to put the one I have in it huh?
If I really like using the Mac, I will want to convert all of my stuff to macs including my main server which runs my web server and email server, plus 250G of RAID5 file storage.
What do you think is the lowest I could get away with to replace my current server with a Mac? I of course don't care whether or not it's got AGP since I don't do any work on that box. Right now it's just a 600mhz intel running Windows 2000 Server. So it's no speed demon.
I'm just curious as I have a feeling I'm really going to like my mac. I've always wanted one. You have to keep in mind that I was in the computer industry for 15+ years, ending as a Director of IT. I've done networks, software development in many different languages, many databases, etc. So a lot of people come to me with computer questions. When I have told some of them about my wish to give macs a try they all say "Why?" I told them that the mac crowed is VERY dedicated and loyal...they are that way for a reason...so there must be something to it.
I'm going to find out.
Rad...
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