And isn't there a 3 Ghz 8-core machine now? There's plenty of speed out there if you have the bucks to put down. I'll move up to the best machine available when my G4 dies or becomes an impediment to my photo work. Neither has happened yet. I think it must be seven or eight years old. Don't really remember. I know that when I bought it my G# had become an obstacle Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Paul, > > A MacBook is not as fast as a G5 2.0DP running Photoshop, by a long > ways. It's a matter of bus performance: I've compared them directly, > with instrumentation.Neither is a G4 DP 1.25. The MacBook Pro is on > par with a G5 2GDP: faster bus, better graphics card, but drives are > slower so you have to be careful. > > The Mac Pro towers wup all of them into the dust! My brother had a > video processing job that his 2.5Ghz DP G5 was going to take 22 hours > to complete. A friend loaned him a Mac Pro Quad-Core that smacked it > down to 4.2 hours. Now that's fast. ;-) > > Godfrey > > > > On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But keep in mind that if you're only concerned about how well the > > machine will run right now, a top of the line G4 will do just fine. > > My dual 1.25 G4 with a huge scratch disk and 2 gigs of RAM is just > > as fast runing PSCS 1 as my Macbook 2 Ghz Intel Cord Duo with 1 gig > > of Ram is running PSCS 3. if you just want to process photos on a > > Mac platform with currently available operating system and software, > > the best G4s will serve you well. If you're thinking ahead, you will > > want an Intel machine. A G5 is kind of caught in the middle: It > > costs a lot more than a G4, yet, like the G4, it has no future. > > Paul. > > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > > From: "Mat Maessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On 6/25/08, Walter Hamler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Knowing that several of you use Macs, I am looking for advice. > >>> I am looking at getting a used/refurbished G4 or G5 to use for > >>> photography > >> ONLY. > >>> I know I want a big external drive for storage backup, but what > >>> about > >>> internal main drive ? > >> > >> I haven't priced them recently, but a decent dual-processor G5 > >> machine > >> was going for as much as a used Intel iMac last time I looked. Like > >> Godfrey, I would not recommend getting a G4 at this point in time. > >> > >> I'm happy with my dual 2.5 Ghz G5 tower, but if I were to do it > >> again, > >> I'd take the same money and put it into an Intel Core 2 Duo based > >> iMac. Performance-wise, it'll beat the G5 in most tasks, except maybe > >> those requiring serious graphics speed, like video rendering. The > >> Intel macs are also more future-proof, as rumors that I've heard is > >> that the OSX 10.6 release will be Intel only. > >> > >> Be warned, if you do get a G5 tower, they tend to suck a LOT of > >> power. > >> I need to upgrade the UPS I have mine plugged into (APC 700VA unit) > >> because it doesn't have enough capacity to run the the machine > >> +monitor > >> for more than 2 minutes. > >> > >> -Mat > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > >> and follow > >> the directions. > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > > and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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