coius
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I went to do a job for a customer at her home office and while doing work she handed me a G5. She was unsure what to do with it. I wasn't sure about the specs and I was kind of apprehensive about taking it (not very fond of G5s). I ended up taking it though. The specs are:
2x 2.3Ghz G5 (PPC970) non dual core
4.5GB DDR-3200 RAM
250GB Maxtor HDD
DVD-+RW DL (Super Drive)
Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB VRAM
Original Power Cable.
That's pretty much it. No airport card, no BT module.
I loaded up 10.5 on a set of WD 80GB Velociraptor drives (10K RPM, SATA II w/ 16MB cache I think) in a striped config (I didn't know OS X booted off SoftSTRIPED drives with Disk utility but it does)
This is the model with PCI-X and AGP 8x Pro still, So no PCI-E expansion and no PCI-E graphics. Boo!
It's also not water cooled so I don't have to worry about that.
Anyone know if an older final cut pro would still be usable on this system as a decent older editing system for video? or if I should just forget it?
2x 2.3Ghz G5 (PPC970) non dual core
4.5GB DDR-3200 RAM
250GB Maxtor HDD
DVD-+RW DL (Super Drive)
Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB VRAM
Original Power Cable.
That's pretty much it. No airport card, no BT module.
I loaded up 10.5 on a set of WD 80GB Velociraptor drives (10K RPM, SATA II w/ 16MB cache I think) in a striped config (I didn't know OS X booted off SoftSTRIPED drives with Disk utility but it does)
This is the model with PCI-X and AGP 8x Pro still, So no PCI-E expansion and no PCI-E graphics. Boo!
It's also not water cooled so I don't have to worry about that.
Anyone know if an older final cut pro would still be usable on this system as a decent older editing system for video? or if I should just forget it?