The quad is the best machine reliability wise as it has the good liquid cooling system. Try and get one with a 6800 Ultra video card. I have a quad 2.5 and a dual 2.5, and the quad is much, much faster. The quad will beat out a mac mini speed wise. Sent from a computer running either the SPARC, Itanium, or PowerPC architecture.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Austin Leeds < firepowerforfree...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, so avoid the quad? I'll agree with the peppiness factor—it really > does seem faster. How about a dual 2.5 or 2.3? > > I'm hooking this thing up to a 480i (?) CRT via SVID, so HDTV is no > factor. The big demand here is compatibilty with older hardware, which > I believe the G5 would have more than a rebuilt PC. I'm considering a > Mac mini vs. the G5, so I'm trying to stack the pros and cons. Thus > far, the big advantage the G5 has is its speed (it may be running > video game emulators) and PCI-e graphics cards. > > Thanks for all your advice thus far. I'm going to talk to my family, > hopefully today, to discuss exactly how our home network should be > laid out, including which computers we should keep/throw/upgrade/ > purchase. I'll probably have some more questions after that. > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
