On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:11 PM, jason wrote: > Hey everyone, sorry it took me a whole day to get back to the > discussion. So, to elaborate further on the system in question, I got > it on an auction site as "parts or repair" --the case was listed as in > good shape. When I got it yesterday through the USPS, it looked like > it had been dropped, the seller didn't package it very well, and so > the feet on one side of the case were broken at the rivets...I was a > little skeptical of it working... > My 13 and 11 year old boys were rubbing their hands together to see if > it would work(mouths watering, so to speak). I let them at it, at > they had it up and running with a firewire drive. My older son > couldn't tell for sure if the superdrive was working or not, so he put > an old dvd drive in, which worked fine. > I got a new 1Tb hard drive in this afternoon before I left for work, > so I let it install 10.4, and the boys were going to fiddle around > with it for me. > It has a radeon 9600 pro card, it was the first edition(?) 1.8 g5 with > the pci-x slots, I just got a couple of 512 sticks of ram, in case it > didn't work, and an adc display. > > So I guess for now, it's up and running. Other than the case being > beaten(!) up (hopefully nothing else is fractured) it seems to be > running ok. Not bad for 49 bucks+shipping... Although in retrospect, > I guess I should have asked the seller to be generous on the > packaging. > > I would like to convert some mini-dv movies to dvd, anyone have any > preferences for software other than ProTools? > > Any suggestions for other software for a cheapskate? > Thanks all. > Jason >
What feet are you saying are broken? My G5 has no feet. I use Visual Hub for all DVD conversions easy to use, a no brainer, so far it's made a DVD from anything I throw at it. John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA Sent from my MBP -- 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
