5 Apr
2013
5 Apr
'13
11:21 a.m.
At 2:54 PM +0000 4/5/13, Ian King wrote:
That's what's truly sad: it's not that the
computer isn't capable, but the
browser is not! My family and I use dual G4 Powermacs, which are
wonderful machines. But once the browser protocols migrate from what
their browsers can support, they might as well be doorstops from my
family's perspective. -- Ian
The reason I upgraded from a 8500/180 to a G4/450 (2nd sold in the
area, such an early model it was running System 8.6), and then from
the G4/450 to a Rev.0 dual 2Ghz G5 was due to the speed at which I
could surf. The reason I moved from the G5 to a late-2010 Mac Pro
was because the G5 died after about seven years.
With both the G5 PowerMac and the Mac Pro, the most important aspects
were the amount of RAM and the number of HD's they can handle. In
fact when I bought the dual 2.4Ghz 4-core (8-cores total) Mac Pro,
until I took it above the stock 6Gb RAM, it was slower than the
ancient G5. It would be nice if Apple would sell systems with enough
RAM to run the OS. With the G4, I kept it running for a couple
years, by doing my surfing on a Pentium 4 box I had.
Zane
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