On Nov 13, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Tom wrote: > Thanks much, everybody. Well, you've convinced me that I need to move > up into the Intel world for the sort of work I do, but I think I'll > have to get a tower rather than an iMac or Mini, because I'd like to > just switch my two 1 TB hard drives from the G5 into the new machine, > and I'd also like to keep using two big monitors. I guess I'm a tower > man, then. > > As to the software issues, what if I got an Intel Mac Pro of some > flavor and just stayed in 10.5 with it, in case there might be > problems with some of my old software in Snow Leopard? I could work my > way up to 10.6 gradually. > > Being a technology ignoramus, I don't know one type of Intel Mac Pro > from another; Bruce up above mentions a "second generation" of them, > and I don't know from this Core Duo/Core 2 duo 32/64 bit processor > stuff. > > But it appears from what you all say that I'd be best off with a > "second generation" 64-bit Core 2 Duo Mac Pro. My budget is around > $1000, maybe a bit more. Can anyone suggest a used model of Mac Pro > that fits this bill, and my (dollar) bills? Or am I asking for too > much for the money? I would strongly recommend 10.5.8 till you really need Snow Leopard. I have both so I'm not saying this sideways.:-) Snow Leopard can lock you out off Intuit programs that run on Intel and PPC have so be careful of that I found out the hard way.
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