I'm sitting here with my S900 drooling over the G5/dual processors.
I've upgraded my s900 slowly over several years till it has a gig of
ram, a G4/450, and 80gig drive, and a 250 gig drive. I have been doing
a good bit of video, and I just don't think the Mac Mini would get the
job done. Even the more expensive model only comes with an 80 gig
drive, and that just isn't enough. I'd love to have a G5/dual, but for
the cost it is just better for me to let the old S900 render overnight.
If you aren't doing heavy video or desktop publishing or some other
REALLY processor intensive stuff, why would you need a screaming
machine?
On Wednesday, June 8, 2005, at 11:15 PM, Nancy Haitz wrote:
Pax wrote:
But, alas, the time does come for those not content with the way
things are. For me the time is soon. The Mini is just too much to
keep my Umax box going. I suspect more than a few here see this as
well. And so another chapter begins...
I have been reluctant to tell my SuperMac friends, but a few weeks
ago, I found a nice deal on a G4/450 Dual Processor to replace Ron's
C600. The 144MB RAM limit just got to be too much of an obstacle with
the C600. It was a pleasant surprise how much "stuff" we could move
from the UMAX to the G4: Monitor, Radeon PCI card, USB/Firewire PCI
card, hard drive, film scanner, compact flash card reader, DYMO
LableWriter, Palm cradle, even his Epson 700 printer (using Gimp
Print). For that matter, the only piece of hardware that we could not
move was the old SCSI UMAX scanner. I tried a SCSI PCI card in the G4
but it gave it deep sleep problems.
I will probably still hang out here, as long as this list lasts. This
was the first forum I joined, and for me has always been the
friendliest and most helpful of the dozen or so I have tried over the
years.
Hey, where else would I have found out about RAM sandwiches, Jeff's
finger gymnastics, or a hundred other useful tips.
Nancy
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