Re: Old Mac never die.

2010-11-30 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I'm a little late to the conversation, but that GigE should be a great machine for some time yet! When it gets to old I would look into getting a Hackintosh. They are amazing machines, and dirt cheap. I'm currently using the following hardware: Dell Optiplex GX270 2.8GHZ w/ 2GB ram (4GB max)

Re: Old Mac never die.

2010-11-29 Thread JoeTaxpayer
10.5.8 ? My old faithfuls are the MDD (Mirrored Door) Running at either 1.25 or 1.42. There are few thing that won't run on them. My urge to get the Mac Pro was strictly for the few times the 10X performance bump would be noticed, video encoding. Funny, the Pro can't run my favorite ripper, so the

Old Mac never die.

2010-11-28 Thread Norm Rowe
I have a G4 gigabyte Mac which was built in 2000 according to Tech Tools and is now at 10.5.8 with many fire wire and USB additions with a 1000gig processor and 2 megs of ram. It stays on 24/7 and the only real problem was a power board failure last year. It is still

Re: Old Mac never die.

2010-11-28 Thread Dan
At 10:25 AM -0500 11/27/2010, Norm Rowe wrote: I have a G4 gigabyte Mac You mean a Power Mac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)? Not a gigabyte. Nice machine, the GigE. which was built in 2000 according to Tech Tools and is now at 10.5.8 with many fire wire and USB additions with a 1000gig processor

Re: Old Mac never die.

2010-11-28 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/28 21:47, Dan so eloquently wrote: Donno what that sentence means, getting TO? Ticked off. Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR Gnome/Ubuntu 10.10 Power Mac June 04 2GHz G5DP 8GB RAM GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL 256MB Leopard 10.5.8 PowerBook G4