:inquisiti Really??!Quote:
Originally Posted by bsodmike
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:inquisiti Really??!Quote:
Originally Posted by bsodmike
Yup, there was a sort of emulation-hack that some peeps put together, and it makes OS X see the PC with a PPC processor(s)...from the reports I've seen it ran...alright but not great. Ohh well, Apple must be relived for sure :p
A couple new shots, here is the G5 getting drunk:
http://gallery.bsodmike.com/albums/Room71/CIMG0529.jpg
The DiamondMax drive:
http://stuff.bsodmike.com/PowerMacG5...0481_800px.jpg
http://stuff.bsodmike.com/PowerMacG5...0482_800px.jpg
Mike, how do you find the G5 over the G4? Obviously the desktop has faster hard drive and so on (and FSB and all that), but..I use a laptop now for work, not a desktop, and I really don't feel held up (its a 1.8 GHz Dothan, pentium M, vs a 2.26 GHz P4 desktop I used to use so yeah its probably faster all round except HDD access...)...I'm probably gonna wait for the new PBs in January...I reckon a dual-core G4 would be really snappy, what do you think?
What exactly do you use your G4 for...anything "heavy" or mainly emails and so on? And your G5? Personally I'm gonna do a bit of World of Warcraft so I need decent graphics (when ATi/Apple/Blizzard get it sorted..hopefully before the EU release), but apart from that nothing majorly stressfull...and I do rather fancy the 12.1 over the 15.2...
The G5 is obviously much faster but tbh I can do everything I do on the G5 on this here pbook but maybe a little slower while suffering from the lack of hdd space...
Do not forget that I got the G5 to be an 'always online' solution as well. I.e. I leave everything running and don't bother closing apps - the 1.25GB of RAM helps. At times I find the 768MB of RAM in my Pbook to be limiting, but I manage by closing apps etc etc.
Yes, the graphics on the G5 are great, I want to get back to playing some frozen throne on it but as for uses on the G4 - It goes with me to lectures daily, where I take down notes in word and I use MathType to enter in formulae. I do Photoshop work on it, run Azureus 24/7 on it (if the G5 isn't around) and Mathematica is bound to my pbook's hardware id, so that's on it as well. As far as form & function both boxes are loaded up with more or less the SAME applications and I use a backup tool called Chronosync by Econ Tech., so that the data on my pbook syncs up with the G5 perfectly, all the time.
Ohh, my pbook is also my digital hub - PDA & iPod are setup on it, while the scanner is hooked up to the G5 and printer is accessible by both via the Airport Express.
I just got the G5 cause I wanted a fast desktop, but if the G5 didn't exist I'd have gone with a MDD G4, this chip is still VERY VERY decent.
Of course the G5 has SATA and that's a boost...
Beware in playing the waiting game cause if you snag a Rev A pbook like I did you will be at the front of the 'hardware' issues. That's what happened with the 15" Alu I got. My current 12" is Rev C. Rev A & B suffered for crap bat life, to the entire BASE comming apart! If I were you, I'd get a 12.1 pbook right now rather than waiting for tomorrows hardware, and then sell it off and swap to the new pbook once it at least reaches Rev B.
Yo man!
...im having my holiday in china now...
I ll get a new iMac G5 when im back.. :)