Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-13 Thread Gene Henley
Quicksilver. Gene www.thinkgene.stemtechbiz.com : Which G5 or older Mac On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:09 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: My bad. See http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/ Your QS has a benchmark rating of 857. As another poster stated, stay with the

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-13 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 13, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: > >> Does Rosetta work well, so that if I went Intel, I could still run all my >> PPC apps? I know very little about the Rosetta idea. The Dual 2.3 GHz G5 >> sounds like the upper limit fo

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-13 Thread David W. Morris
It is surprising to hear that anyone is still running a business from G4 computers, but I like it. Shows that you don't have to use the latest and most powerful equipment to keep being productive. The fastest G5 PowerMac's that were produced were the dual 2.7GHz G5 and the dual core, dual

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 13, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: > Does Rosetta work well, so that if I went Intel, I could still run all my PPC > apps? I know very little about the Rosetta idea. The Dual 2.3 GHz G5 sounds > like the upper limit for PPC. Rosetta works quite well…in fact, you never actually

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-13 Thread Bill Connelly
On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:09 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: My bad. See http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/ Your QS has a benchmark rating of 857. As another poster stated, stay with the 2.3GHz G5, air cooled, it has a benchmark of 1967, about 2.3X your current QS. Can't say that sounds

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-10 Thread JoeTaxpayer
My bad. See http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/ Your QS has a benchmark rating of 857. As another poster stated, stay with the 2.3GHz G5, air cooled, it has a benchmark of 1967, about 2.3X your current QS. On Nov 9, 3:27 pm, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > Take your time and watch eBay listi

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-09 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/11/09 04:01, Bill Connelly so eloquently wrote: Some day soon, I'd like to upgrade to a faster cpu Mac, from my current 10.5.8 based models: a QS 2002 Dual 1GHz and a Digital Audio Dual 533. A Dual 2 GHz sounds really nice ... I run many "older" apps such as Photoshop CS, InDesign CS, Ad

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-09 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 9-11-2011 12:01, Bill Connelly ha scritto: > I run many "older" apps such as Photoshop CS, InDesign CS, Adobe > Golive CS, Sibelius 3 and Ableton's Live 6 plus many other PPC based > applications, and have hesitated from upgrading because I thought I > would need all new software for the

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-09 Thread JoeTaxpayer
Take your time and watch eBay listings. I am floored by the fact that the Dual 2.5GHz is now under $200 shipped. I mean a sale yesterday for $91+$50 shipping = $141. It contained 2.5GB RAM, no HD, but if you already own an OS disc and have drives. I don't know the benchmarks for these units, bu

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-09 Thread Wayne Stewart
I've used Photoshop CS & InDesign CS on intel Macs. MacOS 10.6 and earlier will run PPC software. With the currant 10.7 they eliminated support for PPC software. On Nov 9, 3:01 am, Bill Connelly wrote: > Some day soon, I'd like to upgrade to a faster cpu Mac, from my > current 10.5.8 based models

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-09 Thread Jeff Bequette
Seems quite a few G5 2.0's hitting craigslist for a few hundred to very dear...I envy that speed bump also! My daughters have faster intel macbook & macbook pro, than the home main computer. With them now gone in college, how do I justify an upgrade for me? (dp1.8 G5) On Nov 9, 2011, at

Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-09 Thread Bill Connelly
Some day soon, I'd like to upgrade to a faster cpu Mac, from my current 10.5.8 based models: a QS 2002 Dual 1GHz and a Digital Audio Dual 533. A Dual 2 GHz sounds really nice ... I run many "older" apps such as Photoshop CS, InDesign CS, Adobe Golive CS, Sibelius 3 and Ableton's Live 6 plus