It is a dual core, "late 2005 series". Sounds like good news to me.
I don't like the idea of not being able to keep up with the latest OS, but that's my own lack of computer savvy considering my own needs. My uses are similar to your stated uses, except I don't do video editing. If I started with some video editing, however, it would advance some of my causes. The plan is also to do audio work via Pro Tools on this machine as well, and to my knowledge that will not require being down with the latest and greatest OS. This machine was meant to keep me in the digital world until I can get on board with the Intel. At $650 I figured it would give me processing power, memory, etc., to do what I intended to do until I had the dough to make the "next step". The hope was that I'd get a good three or four year run. Maybe this wasn't such a naive idea? Thanks for your extremely useful input. One thing I do believe I've learned is that I don't know enough about this stuff to be buying used computers. Vince On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: > > On 17/06/09 3:37 PM, "Meghrouni Vince" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A good friend who is much more computer savvy than me has advised me >> to sell it before getting it out of the box, that the G5 is at best >> highly problematic. I am aware that the next OS is leaving all but >> the intel behind, so that the G5 meant a commitment to a vestigal OS >> for a while, but I don't have the $ for the next step up. Thank >> goodness I bought an air-cooled model because subsequent research >> revealed a world of trouble with the liquid-cooled varieties). >> >> Please, if you would be so kind, share your experiences with the G5. >> What are the problems you've had and/or heard of? >> > It depends on which dual you bought. Do you mean dual core or dual G5 > processors? The dual G5 processors (2 actual G5 processors on a > single > mobo) had problems and I believe they had PCI-X slots. I have a > dual-core > 2.3GHz G5 that I bought back in 2007. These have the PCI-e slots. > The ram > for these are inexpensive as far as RAM goes and you can have a > maximum of > 16GB. I have had no trouble with it so far (knock on wood). Yes your > friend is right that all Powermacs will be abandoned by Apple with > Snow > Leopard, however if you're not into having the latest and greatest > then > Leopard itself will suffice. Editing and burning home movies has > been so > much LESS cumbersome since I got my G5. I used to work on a B&W > modded with > a G4 and oc'd to 600MHz - huge difference with the computing power. > A lot > of listers have expressed their anger/disappointment with Apple > regarding > the intel only requirement for 10.6, but aside from video editing and > photography, I'm mostly surfing the web, reading e-mail or using > Office so > I'll stick with Leopard for now. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
