Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-06 Thread Valter Prahlad
Hi would like to know if someone here still uses his Powermac g4, I have just recently switched to a G5. Before that, I have been using a PM G4 DA (upgraded with a 1.4 GHz CPU) for many years, and I just loved it. Apart from some slugginess with Adobe CS3 and when browsing, it was still just

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-06 Thread William Tomcanin
I have used my 2002 Quicksilver G4 (867 MHz, Mac OS X 10.5.8) everyday for about the past 9 years. It does everything I need -- e-mail, web browsing, music, video and photography. I use NeoOffice as my document processor, presentation maker, and for spreadsheets. I am quite happy with it! On

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-03 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Re: Are powermac g4 still useful? Date:Tuesday, 03. January 2012 From:Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com I can't understand your concern. Am I missing something? Number of download seems

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-03 Thread Nick Adams
On Jan 3, 2012, at 12:58 PM, gira93 wrote: Are powermac g4 still useful? I use a PowerMac G4 MDD 1.42Hhz every day and it does everything I want and relatively fast, almost as fast as my wife's Intel iMac. I use PhotoShop, Filemaker Pro, iWork, iMovie HD and Peak LE to name a few

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-03 Thread skinnie
Of Course G4s are still usefull, if they weren't people like me and other wouldn't took time to write this FAQ (on how to get most things done on powerpc macs) http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1091765 and this site: http://powerpcusers.com/ I would love to use mine everyday, but I

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread schaffpa
Your English is very good! If it works for you, tell them to blow off. ;^) G4 MDD Dual 1.0GHz (10.4.11) here is barely adequate, have to continually change my YouTube resolution to 360, but it works fine for Word and most other things. I plan on upgrading, but only because I feel its

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread JoeTaxpayer
Crazy? You'd be crazy only if it didn't do what you needed and made you miserable. (Which certainly makes the case for most windows users, but I digress.) I still have my MDD G4s and they're very useful. They still rip DVDs, browse the web, transcode video to work on my TiVo, and run iTunes to

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread Ashgrove
On Jan 2, 12:40 pm, gira93 diskce...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone! Hi would like to know if someone here still uses his Powermac g4, I have a g4 quicksilver (733mhz, 630mb ram) that i still use (and love) today for web browsing, web administration and youtube, it works very well with

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jan 2, 2012, at 2:54 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: Crazy? You'd be crazy only if it didn't do what you needed and made you miserable. (Which certainly makes the case for most windows users, but I digress.) I still have my MDD G4s and they're very useful. They still rip DVDs, browse the web,

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread Ernst Schlegel
2012/1/2 gira93 diskce...@gmail.com Hello everyone! Hi would like to know if someone here still uses his Powermac g4, I have a g4 quicksilver (733mhz, 630mb ram) that i still use (and love) today for web browsing, web administration and youtube, it works very well with 10.4.11. I'm

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread Clark Martin
On Jan 2, 2012, at 9:40 AM, gira93 wrote: Hello everyone! Hi would like to know if someone here still uses his Powermac g4, I have a g4 quicksilver (733mhz, 630mb ram) that i still use (and love) today for web browsing, web administration and youtube, it works very well with 10.4.11.

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: On Jan 2, 2012, at 9:40 AM, gira93 wrote: Hello everyone! Hi would like to know if someone here still uses his Powermac g4, I have a g4 quicksilver (733mhz, 630mb ram) that i still use (and love) today for web

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread Mac User #330250
Hello! -- Original message -- Subject: Are powermac g4 still useful? Date:Monday, 02. January 2012 From:gira93 diskce...@gmail.com To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Hello everyone! Hi would like to know if someone here still uses his Powermac g4, Yes! I

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread Dennis Myhand
Every day. It is the storage server for my network. DA 500 MHz dual processor 1.5gigs of RAM OS-10.4. Your bad English is better than my students normal speech. Peace, Dennis On 1/2/2012 11:40 AM, gira93 wrote: Hello everyone! Hi would like to know if someone here still uses his Powermac

Re: Are powermac g4 still useful?

2012-01-02 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 2-01-2012 23:36, Mac User #330250 ha scritto: I don¹t want to fall into a negative mood here, but still I find it importaint to point out an observation of mine that made me think that, sadly, these times are going to end soon: look at the download figures of TenFourFox. This will