freinds, romans, countrymen, i come to praise the G5, not bury them. i wonder how many of the posters above who can't wait for Apple to abandon the G5 actually understand chip architecture. i had a G5 for high-end computational work. tasks that take days, weeks, and sometimes even months to execute. unfortunately, it died of a flaky logic board. so as a stop gap, i began using a QS 933, and i grabbed the first used intelmac that i came across at a reasonable cost, because the newest version of the app i use is intel only. to my not so great surprise, given the exact same task, the single processor QS 933 w/ a 133MHz bus speed is still about 25% faster than the core-duo intelmac. maybe, and i mean maybe with a capital MAYBE, the newest intel nehalem processors will finally catch up to where the G4 was ten years ago, but i'm not holding my breath. so call me stoopid if you like, but i'm buying a used G5 to for $500 to replace the one that died instead of a nehalem for $5000. i'll let all of the "smart" folks above shell out their money so they can claim to have the newest and best.
ah...clem On Aug 14, 6:01 pm, Will S <willsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, Shoot me now ;-) > This I hope will teach to read closer & think before posting. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
