Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-14 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 10-01-2012 8:36, arichic...@gmail.com ha scritto: 1. I have had chances to grab various G5's for between $100 and $150. I think it's a very good investment. I'm using a G5 DP 2.7 right now, and it's a very fine machine (much more responsive than the G4 1.4 GHz I was using before). A

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-14 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 11, 2012, at 3:25 AM, faithie999 wrote: here's a dumb question--how are you measuring power consumption? thanks ken My G4 MDD 1.25 was 295 watts. My PPC G5 dual 2.7 averages 410 watts and my Mac Pro is 98 watts both doing the same work most of the time, however the G5's

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
My G4 MDD 1.25 was 295 watts. My PPC G5 dual 2.7 averages 410 watts and my Mac Pro is 98 watts both doing the same work most of the time, however the G5's are much faster then the G4's. The G5's with the fans running most of the time suck up a lot of juice. here's a dumb

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-11 Thread faithie999
here's a dumb question--how are you measuring power consumption? thanks ken On Jan 10, 10:19 am, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:36 PM, arichic...@gmail.com wrote: 1. I have had chances to grab various G5's for between $100 and $150. I have been hesitant

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-11 Thread Dale Hoffman
Google kill a watt for links to some low cost ($20 - $25) electricity usage monitors. They are fun to use, I've tracked every appliance in the house and discovered that I could have paid for a new refrigerator in power savings if I had bought one 5 years earlier! Dale On Jan 11, 2012, at

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-11 Thread JohnV
For the more ambitious... http://www.killawattplus.com/?gclid=COuwk6aLyK0CFUQRNAodTQQShA On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:35 AM, Dale Hoffman wrote: Google kill a watt for links to some low cost ($20 - $25) electricity usage monitors. They are fun to use, I've tracked every appliance in the house

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread Ashgrove
On Jan 10, 2:36 am, arichic...@gmail.com arichic...@gmail.com wrote: After several sudden mac failures, all around the time of the demise of Steve Jobs, I have been trying to get by the past few months on a G4 466, entirely stock, original 30gig hard drive with only Panther on it, no dvd drive

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:36 AM, arichic...@gmail.com wrote: 3. For software I am stuck in Panther, unless and until I can get my Tiger hard drive inside there, which is stuck inside the dead G4 imac.. By the way, I can figure out how to install another hard drive on the same ribbon, but

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:36 PM, arichic...@gmail.com wrote: 1. I have had chances to grab various G5's for between $100 and $150. I have been hesitant because I have ehard they use so much power. Do they really use that much more power than a G4? How much more? My My G4 MDD 1.25 was 295 watts.

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread JoeTaxpayer
295, wow. Mine shows 180 peak, and there are 4 drives in it. What's going on in that Mac, John? I have the Pro, too, Quad 2.66 mid-10 model. Not taken its wattage yet, I'll let you know what I see. On Jan 10, 10:19 am, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:36 PM,

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:40 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: 295, wow. Mine shows 180 peak, and there are 4 drives in it. What's going on in that Mac, John? Dual 1.25 4 HDD's, 2 optical's burning at the same time.:-) and other stuff. I have the Pro, too, Quad 2.66 mid-10 model. Not taken its

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread Tina K.
On 2012/01/10 13:36, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:40 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: What's going on in that Mac, John? Dual 1.25 4 HDD's, 2 optical's burning at the same time.:-) and other stuff. Now that's a PPC Mac being put to good use, it's nice to see one being