18 Jul
2003
18 Jul
'03
3:15 a.m.
I like to think that I think for myself and so far
nobody
has made (much) of a case for the G5.
John A.
For those of us with the very early G4's and older, a G5 would be an awsome upgrade.
Like I mentioned in a previous post, I have one of the original G4/450's, it's
almost 4 years old, and it's starting to feel a bit slow. I mainly have speed
problems in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and when compiling something. Actually I
wouldn't mind speeding up mailbox operations in Eudora either (the OS X version is a
lot slower than the old classic version I was using).
On the G5, the combination of Hypertransport, faster RAM (PC3200 DDR vs. PC100 SDRAM), AGP
8x vs. AGP 2x, SATA vs. ATA66, USB 2.0 vs. USB 1.1, a 4x DVD-R/W drive, and lastly a
significantly faster processor (or two significantly processors) make for a very good case
for me upgrading. However, I'll be limping along with my G4/450 for probably at least
another year.
Zane
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