On 6/13/11 2:20 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 13, 2011, at 10:30 AM, S T wrote:
My questions are basically how can I get the most out of this system?
About the only upgrade left would be to get a SATA card and toss in larger,
faster internal drives.
I
want to geet back into video production work like I ws doing with my Amiga
suite of systems, but that had specialized hardware that isn't available for
teh MAc. Mainly, I don't think NewTek ever put out a Video Toaster card for
the Mac. it's a 4-bank video switcher on a single card. But we'll get to
that later.
Bluntly, if your goal is to 'get back into video production work' akin to what
you used to do with Video Toaster, you need to leave the PPC behind. The
upgrades you've done will get the most out of that system, but there's a reason
Power Macs of that vintage are going for so little money these days. G5's are
going for $250-$300 on the swap list, and they're more capable still.
What you have was top-of-the-line....back in the 1990's, but even a base model
Mini or MacBook outdoes it today in all aspects, except the display on the
Macbook, and would only require an external monitor for it to beat it there,
too.
It's a useful system for a lot of stuff; you could easily run older versions of
Premiere, Final Cut pro or iMovie on it, albeit slooowly, it's a capable
photoshop machine, perfectly viable as web/email/word processing/etc etc stuff,
would make a fine web server, database server or other such system. All the pro
stuff people were doing with top-of-the-line Macs....a decade ago.
But doing something CPU/RAM/Video intensive like pro or semi-pro video editing,
you'll be better served moving up to the newer generation Intel Macs.
And WinXP in VPC?? I'd rather just beat my head in with a rock, compared to the
advantages of simply using VM software like VirtualBox on an Intel Mac.
Tai Chi computing is not all it's cracked up to be...
Everything Bruce said.
If you are determined to use this computer, I would suggest not paying
more than 1 or 2 hundred bucks for an old PPC version of Final Cut Pro
since the next version is only going to be about 3 hundred dollars.
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