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New G5
- Thread starter derek
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A G5 is a great machine.
You might want to partition your drive and dual boot between Tiger 10.4 and Leopard 10.5. You can then install OS 9 Classic environment on Tiger and use that.
You might want to partition your drive and dual boot between Tiger 10.4 and Leopard 10.5. You can then install OS 9 Classic environment on Tiger and use that.
That's an amazing deal! I guess they're hard to sell, because they're so bulky.
Power Macintosh G5 2.0 DP (PCI) Specs (Early 2005, M9747LL/A, PowerMac7,3, A1047, 2061): EveryMac.com
Technical specifications for the Power Macintosh G5 2.0 DP (PCI). Dates sold, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, price and more.
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Single core Geekbench tests put it at 1734; making it about 1734/2070=84% as fast as a Core Duo Mac mini/1.6GHz.
Mac Performance (February 2008) - Geekbench Blog
OTOH it's 2x faster than my iMac G5 at 1.8GHz. Even though it doesn't look like the PMG5 could run Geekbench 3, if it did it would probably score about 686 SC and 1195 MP. By comparison, my Mac mini G4/1.33 scores 771 on Geekbench 2: on GeekBench 3 it'd be: 310.
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Don't you need a special OS9 CD to do that? I would have thought that because the G4 Macs came out while it was possible to run Mac OS 9 natively, then it's possible to have a pseudo-Mac OS 9, but the G5s came out after Mac OS X was standard, so there's no G5 that ever booted into Classic.
Tiger is the penultimate PowerPC Mac OS. But it would interesting to see if my understanding of what can run Mac OS 9 is misplaced.
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The G5 came out well into Apple's transition to OS X, and as such doesn't run OS 9 natively.
The last run of MDD G4s could run OS 9:
What is the fastest Mac capable of booting into MacOS 9?: EveryMac.com
Provides information on the fastest Power Macintosh G4, iMac, eMac, iBook, and PowerBook G4 that can boot in MacOS 9.
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First, congrats!
What was the fastest G5 that could Run 9.2.2 in Classic and how Might that compare to Native 9.2.2 performance of my last gasp, OS9 compatible MDD-03?
What was the fastest G5 that could Run 9.2.2 in Classic and how Might that compare to Native 9.2.2 performance of my last gasp, OS9 compatible MDD-03?
The most accessible would be the dual core 2.3Ghz for the last and fastest.
The absolute fastest and last one to run it would be the quad 2.7 (dual 2.7 dual core) G5.
There was no quad core 2.7GHz G5. There was a Dual Processor (single core each) 2.7GHz G5 which preceded the Quad G5.
I’m not sure what you mean by most accessible.
There's a good LowEndMac article on that:
How Fast Is Classic Mode on a Power Mac G5? - Low End Mac
I’ve been using Classic Mode on G4 Power Macs for years, but now I have a 2.3 GHz Power Mac G5 with dual processors. It can’t boot Mac OS 9 natively, but it can run Classic Mode. How fast is it? One beautiful thing about dual-processor Macs is that they can fully dedicate one CPU […]
lowendmac.com
I said Quad 2.7 and in brackets I did clarify it was two dual core 2.7ghz. Not sure where the misunderstanding would come from.
Edit: now I see what you mean. I apologize. I got the specs mixed up. The quad was a machine with two dual core 2.5Ghz CPUs.
As for “more accessible” I mean easier to find and easier to find in working condition, and easier to keep in working condition. The dual core 2.3 are air cooled and by that point in time of manufacture are among the most reliable G5s made. The quad 2.5 is considered fairly hard to find, fairly hard to keep working without significant work to the cooling system.
99p for a G5 is pretty good.
Yeah, the liquid cooled ones seem to be basically self-destructing at this point. Rather a shame.
Yeah, the liquid cooled ones seem to be basically self-destructing at this point. Rather a shame.
I consider myself lucky we got my father a single processor one in 2005 that has since become mine for that very reason.
