A Yuletide dilemma

At 2:52 PM -0800 12/27/11, Cameron Kaiser wrote: 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. Right now it's running Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign, and Acrobat as well as Phase One's Capture One, and a few other things. My performance issues are strictly related to RAM and Disk I/O. Actually the main performance problem is these **** HD's that go to sleep on their own when not being used, and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn off that behavior! Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |