28 Dec
2011
28 Dec
'11
1:45 a.m.
On 27/12/11 8:11 PM, cctech at vax-11.org wrote:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Why SCSI? G5 tower & Mac Pro are SATA. I put an Intel SSD in my G5.
--Toby
At 2:52 PM -0800 12/27/11, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
You could always switch to SSDs, but it may cost more to get a SCSI SSD
than a new computer would cost.... I still think there is a lot of life in Power
Macs. My two main desktop
machines and my main laptop are all PowerPC (G5, iMac G4 and late
iBook G4).
I plan to get at least 10 years out of my quad, and I have a spare unit
identically configured, just in case.
Depending on your requirements, that sounds reasonable. I managed to
get nearly 7 years out of my Rev.0 Dual 2Ghz G5 PowerMac, and I'm a
heavy Photoshop user. Granted I was ready to replace it at about 5
years, but limped on for a couple more. My primary problem was I
needed more RAM (I had 7 of the 8Gb possible). The hardware finally
gave out on me (the onboard ethernet died about 3 years before the
rest of the system).
Interestingly enough I now have a late-2010 8-core Mac Pro, and with
only 6Gb of RAM, it was slower than the G5. With 24Gb of RAM it's
normally pretty speedy and I can't put a load on it, though I must
confess I've started pricing what it will take to get to 48Gb.
...
Clint