Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-07-25 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 25, 2010, at 5:41 AM, Eric Volker wrote: I'll generally echo what Kris has said regarding the liquid cooled G5's. An additional factor to consider is that the G5 you're using may be a quad-core, as opposed to the more common dual-core/dual-processor G5's. That would explain why

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-07-25 Thread Austin Leeds
On Jul 25, 12:48 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Also, PPC Macs are dead-in-the-water, so rebuilding your old PC into a   Hack wouldn't necessarily be a bad idea. It may be pretty cost   effective to leapfrog the liquid-cooled G5 in performance and also   have Intel compatibility

Re: Video

2010-07-25 Thread Michael Emery
Geke: I’d like to know a bit more about that standard Safari hack? Google download youtube video in safari. -- Michael Emery If you rub your mind against someone who is different, you come out better. -- John Hope Franklin -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-07-25 Thread Eric Herbert
On Jul 25, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Austin Leeds wrote: Yeah, I know PPC is dead-in-the-water—all of my Macs (except for a 68k PowerBook 180) are PPC. Nonetheless, I'm not too worried about it—if it can word process, print, connect to our wireless hotspot, watch TV, and possibly turn our VHS and HI8

The anti-FUD, or what to read on Sunday morning

2010-07-25 Thread Dan
heh. Grab your coffee and donut... http://mac-security.blogspot.com/2010/07/desperate-propaganda-aka-fud-in-anti.html Love this guy's writings. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-07-25 Thread Austin Leeds
OK, so avoid the quad? I'll agree with the peppiness factor—it really does seem faster. How about a dual 2.5 or 2.3? I'm hooking this thing up to a 480i (?) CRT via SVID, so HDTV is no factor. The big demand here is compatibilty with older hardware, which I believe the G5 would have more than a

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-07-25 Thread Illirik Smirnov
The quad is the best machine reliability wise as it has the good liquid cooling system. Try and get one with a 6800 Ultra video card. I have a quad 2.5 and a dual 2.5, and the quad is much, much faster. The quad will beat out a mac mini speed wise. Sent from a computer running either the SPARC,

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-07-25 Thread Eric Herbert
On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Austin Leeds wrote: OK, so avoid the quad? I'll agree with the peppiness factor—it really does seem faster. How about a dual 2.5 or 2.3? I'm hooking this thing up to a 480i (?) CRT via SVID, so HDTV is no factor. The big demand here is compatibilty with older

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-07-25 Thread ah...clem
On Jul 25, 12:50 pm, Eric Herbert goo...@hillcotechnology.com wrote: With what you say you're doing with it, you're probably better off with an Intel Mac Mini in all honesty.  They've got a LOT more processing power, the newer ones have better graphics power (due to not only a better

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-07-25 Thread ah...clem
On Jul 25, 1:48 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: Anecdotal evidence says that the liquid-cooled G5 need to run   24/7/365, and the more often they're shutdown the quicker they have   issues with the coolant causing corrosion and leaks. The coolant needs   to circulate in order to

Re: Power Mac G5 – to buy or not to buy?

2010-07-25 Thread Eric Herbert
On Jul 25, 2010, at 12:16 PM, ah...clem wrote: eric, - did you not read the original post? are you saying a used intel mini is going to radically outperform the late 2008 iMacs that Austin mentioned? don't think so. if you've got an app that utilizes altivec effectively, the latest

G5 2.7 upgrade to Quad Core?

2010-07-25 Thread John Carmonne
Hi All I have a PM G5 Dual 2.7 and I want to know if I can put a Quad Core 2.5 processor in it? John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- 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

Re: G5 2.7 upgrade to Quad Core?

2010-07-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:25 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I have a PM G5 Dual 2.7 and I want to know if I can put a Quad Core 2.5 processor in it? No. -- 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

Re: G5 2.7 upgrade to Quad Core?

2010-07-25 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:25 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I have a PM G5 Dual 2.7 and I want to know if I can put a Quad Core 2.5 processor in it? No. Why? John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- You received this message

Re: G5 2.7 upgrade to Quad Core?

2010-07-25 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
There is a very slim chance this will work, as it all depends on whether the processor is compatible, the CPU bus speed, and if the machine will accept it. I tried putting a dual 500Mhz in my other 400Mhz sawtooth, and no luck came around. I'm not saying it's impossible, i'm saying I have had too

Re: G5 2.7 upgrade to Quad Core?

2010-07-25 Thread Eric Herbert
On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: There is a very slim chance this will work, as it all depends on whether the processor is compatible, the CPU bus speed, and if the machine will accept it. I tried putting a dual 500Mhz in my other 400Mhz sawtooth, and no luck came

Re: G5 2.7 upgrade to Quad Core?

2010-07-25 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 25, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Eric Herbert wrote: On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: There is a very slim chance this will work, as it all depends on whether the processor is compatible, the CPU bus speed, and if the machine will accept it. I tried putting a dual

Re: G5 2.7 upgrade to Quad Core?

2010-07-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 25, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Eric Herbert wrote: the late models had 2 motherboard designs, one with a single CPU socket (essentially leaving out one of the CPU sockets) and one with 2 CPU sockets. Yes, this is why the answer is no. You can't add a 2nd CPU when there's no socket to add

Re: G5 2.7 upgrade to Quad Core?

2010-07-25 Thread John Carmonne
On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jul 25, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Eric Herbert wrote: the late models had 2 motherboard designs, one with a single CPU socket (essentially leaving out one of the CPU sockets) and one with 2 CPU sockets. Yes, this is why the answer is no. You

Re: G5 2.7 upgrade to Quad Core?

2010-07-25 Thread Eric Herbert
On Jul 25, 2010, at 3:26 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I thought the PM G5 dual 2.7 was a two processor machine? I was braindead when I replied earlier (been a long weekend). The Dual 2.7 is a 2 processor machine. Each processor being single core. You can't use a dual-core processor in a

Re: G4 Tiger SErver Now what?

2010-07-25 Thread Chance Reecher
What am I doing with my Tiger server? A whole lot, actually. For one, I have Open Directory enabled, and I have user accounts set up for all my family members. Every desktop in the house is tied to the server, and all user data is stored on it. I'll get to the perks of that in a second. I also

Re: PowerMac G5 Performance

2010-07-25 Thread Eric Herbert
On Jul 25, 2010, at 5:57 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: This may be an ignorant question, but I'll trust the Mac fans here to be kind. I have MDD G4. 1.25 dual proc. 2GB RAM. I'm thinking of going to a G5, and curious if I got a dual 2.5GHz, and sufficient RAM, if in general, I'd expect 2X the

Re: The anti-FUD, or what to read on Sunday morning

2010-07-25 Thread James Therrault
On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Dan wrote: heh. Grab your coffee and donut... http://mac-security.blogspot.com/2010/07/desperate-propaganda-aka- fud-in-anti.html Love this guy's writings. I get bombarded with security abuse all the time even though it is essentially a non-issue. You'd

Re: The anti-FUD, or what to read on Sunday morning

2010-07-25 Thread Dennis Myhand
James Therrault wrote: You'd just think that people would be a little smarter and make decisions based on verified facts. If people were smart there wouldn't be politicians or telemarketers. Peace, Dennis in Victoria -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: Video

2010-07-25 Thread Gus
Don't really of a 'hack' exactly. I know on some sites you could do a alt - apple - a in safari and a list pops up. Often times you can navigate to the place where the where the flv video is and save it. Others have gotten the video out of the cache using file juicer and utils that get files