On Mar 22, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Mar 21, 2011, at 10:32 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: > >> But truth be told they have >> found they are much more impressed with the old G4s because unlike the >> new faster Intel macs the G4s are actually consistently reliable. >> Their Intel Macs are consistently crashing or malfunctioning in some >> other way. > > This is directly contrary to my experience managing a college with about > 100-120 Macs in use, all but a handful of which are Intel macs of one form or > another; none 'consistently crash'. > > Of course there are occasional issues, but most of those have been fixed by > either starting in safe mode (to clear the caches) using Applejack (once per > machine so far, not as a routine maintenance) or most often, just getting > enough RAM in the systems. (people trying to run a bunch of Mac apps plus > Windows in a VM need more than 2GB ram, or the system slows to a crawl on a > regular basis.)
It's been about two months since I switched from my trusty ol' Gigabit G4 to a late '09 Mac Mini. The previous owner had wiped the HD and reinstalled the original system s/w which was an early version of Snow Leopard and then upgraded it to the current 10.6.6. For about the first month, I did experience strange things like application crashes, sleep issues etc but now it seems as if the machine "has learned" my habits. It is now rock steady, runs 24/7 (much of it in sleep mode) without any problems. Safari which always gave me fits on the G4 is now amazing. Other apps as well and I am running Rosetta (sp?) for an older game, Mah Jong and it works just fine. Moving across a ten year technology "bridge" has been quite an impressive journey! Wow! JT -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
