On Feb 14, 2010, at 9:53 PM, MaGioZal wrote:
On 1/23/10 10:41 AM, Mac User #330250 at macuser330...@gmx.net
wrote:
My experience is different, since all the Macs I have make a lot
of noise. The
most silent Power Mac I own is the G5 Late 2005 which has liquid
cooling
(even though it is
On Feb 14, 2010, at 10:38 PM, MaGioZal wrote:
On 1/24/10 1:55 PM, Dan at dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Not crazy about the iMac G4 design (too many with limp necks). But I
really like the rest of the iMac designs over the years. Very cool.
sigh. Now if only they were easier to repair. Good
$ problems seems to be the underlying reason in the majority of statements in
this thread. Otherwise I suspect most of us would buy new Macs and not regret
the move.
well, unexpected tax return this year (loss of income took me down a tax
bracket) equals a brand new mac mini on my desk.
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Subject: Re: [G3-5]Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?
Date:Montag 15 Februar 2010N
From:MaGioZal magio...@gmail.com
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
On 1/21/10 6:51 PM, Jonas Ulrich at jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes
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Subject: Re: [G3-5]Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?
Date:Montag 15 Februar 2010N
From:MaGioZal magio...@gmail.com
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
YouTube videos here are COMPLETELY out of sync, even when they'e completely
On 2/14/10 9:38 PM, MaGioZal wrote:
Apple is somehow schizo in its CPU designs: or it made them VERY EASY to
open and upgrade (Centris 660/PowerMac 6100, LC I/II/III/Performa 475,
PowerMac 8600/PowerMac Beige G3, Mac G4 Cube, Blue and White G3 and all
other minitower CPUs before the G5) or
On 1/21/10 6:51 PM, Jonas Ulrich at jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, Apple is dropping support for PPC machines and Tiger in general.
But on the other side Tiger is still quite usable. It is my everyday OS
here, runnning on a non-upgraded Beige G3. By now, the only major softwares
that
On 1/21/10 7:12 PM, Mac User #330250 at macuser330...@gmx.net wrote:
But then... I love the Power Mac/Mac Pro aluminium case. It is beautiful but
still functional and an do-it-yourself-hardware-upgraders' dream...
And you can left one of the sides visible from the inside...;-)
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On 1/22/10 7:41 PM, Dan at dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
All my Macs, that run System 7, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Panther, and
Tiger, are still running. They didn't suddenly gak the other day.
The only BIG problem for these older OSes is web surfing.
:-/
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On 1/22/10 7:41 PM, Dan at dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At home, I think it's pretty stupid to dedicate a $1000+ computer to
play streaming radio and drive a scanner.
But for YouTube videos, it is very hard to handle them in older computers.
:-/
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On 1/23/10 10:41 AM, Mac User #330250 at macuser330...@gmx.net wrote:
My experience is different, since all the Macs I have make a lot of noise. The
most silent Power Mac I own is the G5 Late 2005 which has liquid cooling
(even though it is the 2.0 GHz single processor (Dual Core) model --
On 1/23/10 11:37 AM, Lawrence David Eden at lde...@comcast.net wrote:
I watch videos on the
internet...voice and video are a little out of sync.
YouTube videos here are COMPLETELY out of sync, even when they'e completely
downloaded. :-/
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On 1/23/10 2:38 PM, Da'Birdman at sa...@defalcos.com wrote:
I find Tiger performs noticeably faster than Panther.
Believe me, sometimes I feel Tiger as quick (or as slow...:-P) as Jaguar on
my Beige G3.
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On 1/23/10 3:36 PM, Mac User #330250 at macuser330...@gmx.net wrote:
GIMP is nice. I prefer GraphicConverter 5.9.5 on the Smurf.
I'll check it out. But I'm guessing that GraphicConverter isn't free...
...but is completely usable in its shareware version. Well, you'll get a
annoying hang-on
I use a Power Mac G4 because I can afford it, it is very attractive
and it is very stable. In fact a friend of mine who works with them
in a professional capacity at a print shop and she said in their
experience in the art room their old G4 Power Macs are more
consistently reliable then their
On 1/25/10 7:05 PM, coolr...@comcast.net at coolr...@comcast.net wrote:
I know someday I'll have to upgrade to Intel just as I had to upgrade
from OS9 a few years ago but for now everything is working. As Bruce
quoted the old axiom, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Another thing to consider
On 1/30/10 1:04 PM, JoeTaxpayer at joetaxpaye...@gmail.com wrote:
The G4 is friendly to upgrades. Maxed out the memory to 2GB. For $10
added a USB 2.0 card. Easy to add Hard Drives as I catch them getting
cheaper and cheaper.
That' what a like in minitower CPUs. Think about the fact that a
On 1/30/10 1:31 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio at fluxstrin...@gmail.com
wrote:
$ problems seems to be the underlying reason in the majority of statements in
this thread. Otherwise I suspect most of us would buy new Macs and not regret
the move.
My intention is to buy a brand-new Intel
=
So, G-Group: Why are you (still) PowerPC-based Mac users?
Because I would like to buy a brnd-new Intel Mac, but I still have to get
the money to do that. And because with my Tiger-running Beige G3 I can most
of the applications made for Mac OS X and Mac OS
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