On Sunday, November 2, 2003, at 04:29 PM, David Elmo wrote:
What can't you do with what you have? Apart from anything on the web
(slowness here does not count at all), how long are you waiting for your
present 500 MHz processor to do things? My 360MHz one keeps me waiting
hardly at all... The longest is to open say large 100 MB pics in Photoshop,
but then it is only a few secs and I only open such to vastly reduce them.
If you are working on film or large files for printing, maybe you can gain
from faster crunching. I'd say though to save your pennies for a machine
with a bigger bus like a true G4 (even a 350 or 400 MHz G4 would be likely
be faster in practice than yours with a faster processor. IMHO and all
that...
david elmo
Heh. I am a Mac gamer. And I use Lightwave to design Quake levels. I NEED the speed, I'm usually running Lightwave, Photoshop, Safari, iTunes, iChat, Mail, and an emulator for playing GBA games all at once...I have a four monitor setup for this reason. Unfortunately, I cannot afford a newer computer; the lowest I would buy is a dual 450G4 AGP, they go for around 800-900 here, and to me that is not cost effective considering for not much more than that I could buy a 1GHz eMac or a bit more for a 1.6GHz G5. Also, I have a LOT of money invested in this system (20GB HDD, 12GB LVD2 RAID, 1GB RAM, Radeon 64MB, 2x Radeon 32MB) , and I do not wish to part with it until I can replace it with a G5, probably not until the rev 2 units are released.
-Josh
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