BarnacleGrim
Well-known member
I'm hooked on high-end workstations, IIfx, Quadra, SGI, Sun, etc. and I love my 1st generation PowerMac G5. Because I'm not made of money, and I'm not an Intel fan (complex instruction set computers in this day and age?) I'm not getting a Mac Pro. And the only times it really beachballs on me is operator error, having too much flash-littered browser windows open at once.
Installing more memory would be a no-brainer. 1 GB should be plenty for most purposes, but with photography I guess more memory is always good. I also installed a 500 GB hard drive some time ago, I'm thinking of removing the old 160 GB drive and put in another 500 GB one as a RAID-1. I still haven't learned the lesson of regular backups after all these years and all that lost data. The 160 gig could be recycled with a FireWire interface for backing up essentials on the MacBook.
What about thin clients? I'm spending months on ships with deafening ventilation fans. You don't know what shore leave is until you have gotten in your car and driven miles into the wilderness just to sit down on the stub enjoying the silence (until you realize your ears are ringing). It would be very cool if I could keep my G5 in the basement and run a gigabit cable up to the study and only have the monitor, keyboard, mouse and a CF reader. Not sure how practical it is, though.
Installing more memory would be a no-brainer. 1 GB should be plenty for most purposes, but with photography I guess more memory is always good. I also installed a 500 GB hard drive some time ago, I'm thinking of removing the old 160 GB drive and put in another 500 GB one as a RAID-1. I still haven't learned the lesson of regular backups after all these years and all that lost data. The 160 gig could be recycled with a FireWire interface for backing up essentials on the MacBook.
What about thin clients? I'm spending months on ships with deafening ventilation fans. You don't know what shore leave is until you have gotten in your car and driven miles into the wilderness just to sit down on the stub enjoying the silence (until you realize your ears are ringing). It would be very cool if I could keep my G5 in the basement and run a gigabit cable up to the study and only have the monitor, keyboard, mouse and a CF reader. Not sure how practical it is, though.