I retired my 20" C2D iMac for the youngest son to take to college to augment his Toshiba i7 laptop. To replace the iMac, I bought a Mac Pro 1,1 from a fellow Mac buddy for $400 shipped to my house. That included a 128GB SSD boot drive.
The Mac Pro blows my iMac away, and i's only running 2-2.66 GHz dual core Xeons with a firmware flash to the 2,1 firmware. I know I can pop in a couple of X5355s or 5365s to bump it to an 8 core machine for under $100. It does such a good job the way it is I haven't felt the need. It wouldn't make a lot of difference to me anyway, as most of the stuff I run is single threaded anyway. When I do rip a CD or run Handbrake I can definitely tell the difference. Love my Macs. MacDan On Oct 11, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: > the first macs i encountered were late 90s and i thought it was some of the > nicest hardware i'd ever seen. i used to really enjoy taking 2 or 3 junk > pismos and making 1 good one, generally in under an hour. similarly with > the g3 imacs. and my g4 dual powermac was really fantastic in look, feel > and function > > i was less moved by my current stuff but never had any issues with either > unit. the 2005 G5 quad powermac is still my main machine and the 2007 > core2duo mini also runs without a hitch _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
