G5 Optical Drive Data Cable
I'm in need of an optical drive data cable. Are they easy to pick up on the cheap? Do they use a standard data cable from any computer parts place? Cheers, Evan -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Buying a G5
Thanks for the advice, all very helpful. I'll probably stick with a G5 to keep the cost down. Here's one I'm thinking of buying http://bit.ly/wVZsFk Model A1047 EMC 2061 Apple Mains Cable Running OSX Leopard 10.5.8 Spec of this Mac Dual 2.3 GHz G5 Processors ( NOT liquid cooled model ) 160 GB HDD SATA DVD-RW Pioneer 109 D (not tested for burning but works fine reading dvd's) 2 GB DDR PC 3200 RAM 128 MB VRAM Dual DVI output adapter needed for VGA or ADC 1 Ethernet port 3 USB 2 Ports 2 Firewire 400 Ports 1 Firewire 800 port Optical in and out Ports Sound in and out Ports 1 Headphone port Comes with Apple Mains cable Case is in reasonable condition but has a number of marks and scratches. Running OSX Leopard 10.5.8 iLife 09 On Feb 18, 8:55 pm, Illirik Smirnov illir...@gmail.com wrote: the Mac Pro is nice and all, but the fact remains that Intelness adds significant to the price. Hereabouts, a pristine dual 2.5 G5 sans RAM, video, and HDD (since personal preferences matter so much, when our little circle swaps machines we do so like this) can be had for ~$100; that means the whole shebang can be under $200 depending on the amount of RAM you want (if you're like me and have a lot of 256 and 512MB sticks lying around, 8 slots means that you can have plenty using a bunch of small sticks in matched pairs of capacity, not speed or brand). On the other hand, a dual 2.5 Mac Pro from the first gen is easily triple that, with no more than 50% increase in performance (most of which is due to DDR2 RAM) -- -- Illirik Smirnov Chaotic Neutral since 1997 A Charisma of 28 will seduce the dragon on a 14 or higher... 20? Oh well, I suppose you get the treasure. They see me rollin, they hatin; patrollin, tryin to catch me rollin nat one Ron Paul // Jello Biafra 2012: For A Better America= Proud member of the Enloe HS Debate Team: At Least Someone Placed On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:25 AM, JohnCarmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Feb 17, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Joshua Lewis wrote: The second hand Mac pros are way better than the G5. The Mac pros have better reliability They run cooler and quieter than the Powermac G5. They have Intel processors which mean it can run the latest mac os x and latest programs and boot camp windows. Im not saying that you shouldn't buy a Powermac G5 but any second hand mac pro 2006 or later would be a better choice its more cost effective wise than the G5. The thing you do give up with the Mac Pro is the ability to run Tiger and Classic. Otherwise the Mac Pro is a nice machine. John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA MacPro 2.66 Quad Nehalem -- 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 athttp://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtmland our netiquette guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Buying a G5
Hello All! I am in the market to upgrade to a Power Mac G5. I'm the proud owner of a G4 MDD Dual 867. I got a little stung by the fan noise issue which I did not know about at the time. Now I'm about to go for a G5 are there any quirks between the various models I should know about? I'm looking at G5 Dual Processor machines from 2Ghz and up. Cheers, Evan -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Rolling Back to Panther OSX
Thanks for your suggestions. Dual booting had not occurred to me. That would probably be best I think. Here is the scenario: I have Tiger installed on my first HDD (60GB), This came preloaded and I have no discs. I now have the original G4 MDD install discs that revert me to Panther. Can i preserve what I have and partition and install Panther or will I have to start from scratch and need a copy of 10.4? Evan On Dec 5, 12:41 am, David W. Morris bbh...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: I'm running Leopard 10.5.8 on my Macs, but I also have Tiger 10.4.11 on another partition. When I do audio work, I use Tiger since my M- Audio 2496 PCI card only seems to function up to but not including Leopard. Maybe you could do a similar thing for your Panther application? But you would already need another partition for Panther ... maybe add another SATA drive? My Dual 1.25GHz G4 MDD PowerMac arrived from the eBay seller with MacOSX10.2.1 and MacOS9.2.2 installed on the same partition, which I thought was strange, but it worked. I later installed 10.5.8 on a separate partition and MorphOS2.7 on yet another partition. When using the boot with the Option key depressed function to get to the boot selector screen, it would not show the MacOS9.2.2 option to boot from. Only the MacOSX10.2.1, MacOSX10.5.8 and MorphOS2.7 boot partitions would show up. To boot into MacOS9.2.2 I would have to choose it from the Startup Disk option in the System Preferences. Now I am in the process of setting up separate hard drives for each OS, instead of partitions on one drive. Since MorphOS2.7 is so small and efficient, it will easily fit on my 6gb hard drive pulled from a G3 iMac and have tons of room for files and applications. I will put MacOS9.2.2 on a 120gb drive and MacOSX 10.5.8 on my 160gb drive. I might even set up Ubuntu PPC 10.10 on yet another hard drive, since the MDD G4 PowerMac easily holds 4 hard drives, but that might be just a waste of space and extra heat producing hardware since I hardly ever use Linux. -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Rolling Back to Panther OSX
Hi, I'm having an issue using Final Cut Express 2 where I cannot capture footage for more than 5 mins without the window freezing up. After some digging it would appear to be because FCE2 needs to utilise an older version of quicktime. My G4 MDD came pre-loaded with 10.4 and I had (or I have since upgraded to) a newer version of Quicktime and thus this problem. SoI have picked up the MDD original install discs for peanuts and may roll back to 10.3.2 to solve the Quicktime issue. Any major drawbacks I should be aware of in using the older OS? Looks like my iphone and iTunes will not sync in 10.3.2. Thought about getting an old ibook just for music and iphone etc. I've been through the other software I use and seems to be older versions of everything that's important. What about browsers? I started using TenFourFox so that will have to change. Camino? If I had the cash I would just get a G5 and FCE4 or whatever but need to make best of what I have. Cheers, Evan -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
