28 Dec
2011
28 Dec
'11
12:25 a.m.
On 27/12/11 6:07 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 2:52 PM -0800 12/27/11, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I need a PSU for a dual 2.5GHz G5 (my main home machine). If somebody
has one with other dead parts maybe they could sell me the PSU :)
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....
I went with an 8 core Mac Pro to use at work (as is often the fashion
nowadays, developers supply their own hardware). But really, a G4 or G5
would be enough for what I do.
--Toby