My 'main' machine is currently the 2.5 dual G5 with two 23" Cinema displays, as it's very beneficial to have a great deal of real estate for programming and my little MacBook pro can only do 1 extra monitor.
I'm stuck with the G5 for the time being as I have maxxed out the Pro Tools original PCI bus hardware with the last PPC revision of PT 8. The cards are so damn expensive to upgrade to a modern bus scheme that it's not really worth it. I have two g4s, an early 500mhz from 1999, and a newer, 'Silver Door' model. Both were my previous Pro Tools machines. My son's 1999 Cube is downstairs, non-functioning now but I have the parts to restore it. My daughter's Purple DV edition iMac is also downstairs, awaiting repair. My garage is a Mac graveyard with a representative of almost every type of Mac ever made. I fear if I send them away as 'electronic waste' that they will end up in a far off place poisoning people with toxics as they try and melt off the scrap gold of the motherboards and get personal information from people's hard drives that they didn't even bother to secure-erase. I hate throwing away these oldest machines but they are pretty much useless. Yes, they can be hooked up to 10-Base T networks,but the browsers and internet software is not going to work that well with today's java-powered net. ------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/8/26 Richmond Mathewson <[email protected]>: > With the advent of Mac OS 10.6; an Intel processor only OS I am interested > to see who is > still depending on Mac PPC computers (G3,G4,G5) to get their work done. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
