Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-29 Thread JohnV
THanks for the lesson. The iMac exists to be the household machine. It got promoted to Show Duty since it's running an OS that can field MAX and the G5 can;t. and I'm up against a deadline. It's holding its own so far... my only thing now is figure how to make it A- an easy startup by

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 29, 2011, at 5:33 AM, JohnV wrote: THanks for the lesson. The iMac exists to be the household machine. It got promoted to Show Duty since it's running an OS that can field MAX and the G5 can;t. and I'm up against a deadline. It's holding its own so far... my only thing now is

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread JohnV
On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Matevž Markovič wrote: These LOGIC music projects, that play fine on the G5, cause the newer/faster/amazinger iMac dual to CHOKE... playback stops and CPU overload box shows up. Software failure? Doesn;t seem to be, LOGIC doesn;t crash, just stops playback,

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 28, 2011, at 11:18 AM, JohnV wrote: Don't know how specific this might be, but any thoughts and advice is appreciated. My main audio studio system is built around LOGIC 8 running on a PPC G5 (ex video editing rig) 10.4.11 It's a rock I have a series of short pieces composed

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:03 PM, JohnV wrote: Which iMac dual and which PowerMac G5 do you have? Model Name: iMac Model Identifier:iMac4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core Duo Processor Speed: 1.83 GHz Number Of Processors:1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core Duo There's a fix for this underpowered iMac problem, it's called the iMac4,1 Firmware Tool, and it can allow you to upgrade the RAM and CPU in these older