[G5] Love that G5 (Was: Re: G5 Digest, Vol 67, Issue 1)

[Zane H. Healy]

You're not alone, though I'm still running 10.4.11, I never made the 
move to Leopard since it removes the Classic environment.  Mine turns 
6 in a couple months, and it has been an amazing system.  For 
day-to-day computing it has never felt slow, something I couldn't say 
about my G4/450, 8500/180, or my PowerBook 520c.  Where it does feel 
slow is where I'm working on photo's, and I've slowly built it up to 
7GB of RAM.  I hate to say it, but except for loosing classic I'm 
mostly looking forwards to moving to a Mac Pro, and I hope to make 
the move sometime in the next few months.  My only other concern on 
moving to Intel is that I still use Eudora, and am worried about 
problems with it.

Being able to move to 16GB RAM, and having Photoshop and Lightroom 
run a lot faster (plus I have one Photoshop plugin that needs better 
a graphics card than I have) will be nice.  If it wasn't for 
Photoshop, I wouldn't have any reason to move, and in all honestly I 
need a better scanner and other photography gear more than I need a 
new Mac.

Still I know I'll miss my G5 when I make the move.  I've used this G5 
longer than I have any Mac or PC, and nearly as long as my one DEC 
Alpha.  It has been, and still is a very good, and very usable 
system.  Even if it does have a dead onboard ethernet port (I got 
lucky and had a GigE card that would work in one of the PCI-X slots).

Zane



At 9:06 PM -0400 9/23/09, Jon Kreisler wrote:
>I love my Dual 2.0 GHz G5 Mac tower. It just turned 6.
>I just dread the day I will need to purchase an application that is 
>no longer available as Universal Binary.
>I suspect as long as they keep making software  Leopard compatible 
>(as opposed to Snow Leopard) I can keep it cranking.
>(I said something similar about  my B&W G3, my Wallstreet, my 9500, 
>my 610, my IIsi, my ][e, my ][+, oops that's as far back as I've 
>used Apple computers...)
>
>Jon
>
>On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:06 PM, 
><<mailto:wsportydog at aol.com>wsportydog at aol.com> wrote:
>
>Sorry for wasting bandwidth. I love my PPC G5. Been an Apple guy 
>since Mac Plus in 1986. Look forward to reading posts from others 
>with a G5.
>Randy
>
>
>
>
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