G4 MDD or Quicksilver?

2009-02-20 Thread lrbarrios
I've recently purchased an Apple 17 Studio Display with an ADC connector. I was originally thinking of hooking this up to a PowerMac G3 BW 350MHz. 'They' make adapters and converters for everything, right? Sure they do... To make this happen, I would have to get a PCI DVI video card and then

Re: G4 MDD or Quicksilver?

2009-02-20 Thread Christopher Icha
I've had 2 Quicksilvers and two MDDs. They are both fine machines, but there are a lot of quicksilvers (particularly 733mhz) that seem to develop power supply problems. It is a known problem and you can find a whole load of people selling spare QS cases and motherboards on ebay as a

Re: G4 MDD or Quicksilver?

2009-02-20 Thread mythmaker18
I work in a printing shop and we have a 733MHz Quicksilver that has been in service since 2001, and it has NEVER developed a power supply problem. Also, it tends to stay on most of the time. We still use it to drive a scanner and to run the occasional Classic application when a customer brings in

Re: G4 MDD or Quicksilver?

2009-02-20 Thread PeterH
On Feb 20, 2009, at 12:38 AM, lrbarrios wrote: Now, about the subject of this post: MDD or Quicksilver. I kinda prefer the look of the Quicksilver over the MDD. I've read that the MDD is nicknamed 'Wind Tunnel', but that there was a firmware update that may have fixed that problem. I'm

Re: G4 MDD or Quicksilver?

2009-02-20 Thread Tom
The QS 2002 1 GHz DP is a heck of a good machine. I used one for the last few years, doing lots of Photoshop and video editing (iMovie and Final Cut Express), until moving up to a G5 so as to be able to run Final Cut Studio. I still use it for many things. The QS 2002 can do pure OS 9 if