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

[J. R. Rosen]

Zane, Jon or Joel I am looking for a dual G5 here in the near  
future.  I'm like you Zane, I need Classic mode and am stuck in X. 
4.11 on a G5.

Right now I'm on a dual G4 1gHz Quicksilver that's getting long-in- 
the-tooth.  It's trying to kernel panic and freeze all the time, but  
I'm fighting against it - for now!  However, it has been an awesome  
machine, and at 7 years young, it's a great machine.

Yesiree-bob, the G5 dual 2.3 is looking pretty good in the very near  
future!


On Sep 24, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> 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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