Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> > > My G4 MDD 1.25 was 295 watts. My PPC G5 dual 2.7 averages 410 watts > > > and my Mac Pro is 98 watts both doing the same work most of the time, > > > however the G5's are much faster then the G4's. The G5's with the fans > > > running most of the time suck up a lot of juice. > > > > here's a

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-14 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 11, 2012, at 3:25 AM, faithie999 wrote: > here's a dumb question--how are you measuring power consumption? > > thanks > > ken > > > >> >> My G4 MDD 1.25 was 295 watts. My PPC G5 dual 2.7 averages 410 watts >> and my Mac Pro is 98 watts both doing the same work most of the time, >> h

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-14 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 10-01-2012 8:36, arichic...@gmail.com ha scritto: > 1. I have had chances to grab various G5's for between $100 and $150. I think it's a very good investment. I'm using a G5 DP 2.7 right now, and it's a very fine machine (much more responsive than the G4 1.4 GHz I was using before). A G

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-11 Thread JohnV
For the more ambitious... http://www.killawattplus.com/?gclid=COuwk6aLyK0CFUQRNAodTQQShA On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:35 AM, Dale Hoffman wrote: Google "kill a watt" for links to some low cost ($20 - $25) electricity usage monitors. They are fun to use, I've tracked every appliance in the house

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-11 Thread Dale Hoffman
Google "kill a watt" for links to some low cost ($20 - $25) electricity usage monitors. They are fun to use, I've tracked every appliance in the house and discovered that I could have paid for a new refrigerator in power savings if I had bought one 5 years earlier! Dale On Jan 11, 2012, at 6

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-11 Thread faithie999
here's a dumb question--how are you measuring power consumption? thanks ken On Jan 10, 10:19 am, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: > On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:36 PM, arichic...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > 1. I have had chances to grab various G5's for between $100 and $150. > > I have been hesitant because I h

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread Tina K.
On 2012/01/10 13:36, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:40 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > > What's going on in that Mac, John? > Dual 1.25 4 HDD's, 2 optical's burning at the same time.:-) and other stuff. Now that's a PPC Mac being put to good use, it's nice to see one bei

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:40 AM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: > 295, wow. > Mine shows 180 peak, and there are 4 drives in it. What's going on in > that Mac, John? > Dual 1.25 4 HDD's, 2 optical's burning at the same time.:-) and other stuff. > I have the Pro, too, Quad 2.66 mid-10 model. Not taken its

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread JoeTaxpayer
295, wow. Mine shows 180 peak, and there are 4 drives in it. What's going on in that Mac, John? I have the Pro, too, Quad 2.66 mid-10 model. Not taken its wattage yet, I'll let you know what I see. On Jan 10, 10:19 am, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: > On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:36 PM, arichic...@gmail.com wrot

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:36 PM, arichic...@gmail.com wrote: 1. I have had chances to grab various G5's for between $100 and $150. I have been hesitant because I have ehard they use so much power. Do they really use that much more power than a G4? How much more? My My G4 MDD 1.25 was 295 watts. M

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:36 AM, arichic...@gmail.com wrote: > 3. For software I am stuck in Panther, unless and until I can get my > Tiger hard drive inside there, which is stuck inside the dead G4 > imac.. By the way, I can figure out how to install another hard drive > on the same ribbon, but sup

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-10 Thread Ashgrove
On Jan 10, 2:36 am, "arichic...@gmail.com" wrote: > After several sudden mac failures, all around the time of the demise > of Steve Jobs, I have been trying to get by the past few months on a > G4 466, entirely stock, original 30gig hard drive with only Panther on > it, no dvd drive to even instal

G4 or G5?

2012-01-09 Thread arichic...@gmail.com
After several sudden mac failures, all around the time of the demise of Steve Jobs, I have been trying to get by the past few months on a G4 466, entirely stock, original 30gig hard drive with only Panther on it, no dvd drive to even install Tiger. i have sort of collected numerous questions to str

Re: Tiger won't ichat on G4 or G5 PPC's?

2010-09-30 Thread John Markowitz
> iChat works just fine on my system (Tiger, fully updated).  It and > Adium even talk at each other. > > You gots a hole in your firewall enabled for iChat Bonjour? > > You gots separate AIM or .Mac accounts for each login session? > > Have you tried trashing prefs and such? I have found that Ti

Re: Tiger won't ichat on G4 or G5 PPC's?

2010-09-30 Thread Clark Martin
On Sep 30, 2010, at 5:55 AM, John Markowitz wrote: > > >> iChat works just fine on my system (Tiger, fully updated). It and >> Adium even talk at each other. >> >> You gots a hole in your firewall enabled for iChat Bonjour? >> >> You gots separate AIM or .Mac accounts for each login session?

Re: Tiger won't ichat on G4 or G5 PPC's?

2010-09-30 Thread John Markowitz
> iChat works just fine on my system (Tiger, fully updated).  It and > Adium even talk at each other. > > You gots a hole in your firewall enabled for iChat Bonjour? > > You gots separate AIM or .Mac accounts for each login session? > > Have you tried trashing prefs and such? I have found that Ti

Re: Tiger won't ichat on G4 or G5 PPC's?

2010-09-23 Thread Dan
At 12:53 PM -0700 9/23/2010, John C wrote: I can't get any of my machines to run iChat on Tiger, They all work just fine on 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 but no cigar on 10.4.11, The machines that I'm trying the Tiger on are PM G5 Dual 2.7 and a G4 Cube 1.2. Both machines run iChat on Leopard 10.5.8, I'm usi

Tiger won't ichat on G4 or G5 PPC's?

2010-09-23 Thread John C
Hi All I can't get any of my machines to run iChat on Tiger, They all work just fine on 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 but no cigar on 10.4.11, The machines that I'm trying the Tiger on are PM G5 Dual 2.7 and a G4 Cube 1.2. Both machines run iChat on Leopard 10.5.8, I'm using an iSight and a iMage USB camera. T