Buy Power Mac G5 Now or Wait … for Intel?

[Simon Carlson-thies]

Well if you plan to do Final Cut Studio then you are best off with a Power Mac G5 intel or not intel

best of luck

Simon Carlson-Thies,
Digital Light Graphics And Animation

[Harry Pallenberg]

Well it looks liek FCStudio is now universal… still, I’d want others to shake it all out.

Thanks,
Harry.

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Dual 1.8 G5 ** 1GB ** 10.4.1

[Mitchji]

Hi,

I would shop for a good deal on a lower end Dual G5. Check here:
https://dealmac.com/categories/Computer/Apple-Systems/Power-Macs/44.html

and here:
https://www.macprices.com/desktops.shtml

A factory refurb from Apple, Smalldog or Expercom (probably no sales tax if Expercom or Smalldog) would be a good idea (full factory warranty). Then when you can get a similar deal on Intel Mac (a few month’s after they are introduced) you could sell your G5 and upgrade for a very minimal outlay.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Cory McKechnie] “owever, I was disappointed to see that I could only bring along one of my existing Serial ATA HD’s … do you know of a good place to pick up (cheap) an external S-ATA HD enclosure so I can bring along both my 120GB internal S-ATA editing HD’s?”

Hi,

Two good solutions would be:
G5 drive bracket reviewed here:
https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/g5bracket/

Here is an opinion on the heat from Barefeats (scroll down):
https://www.barefeats.com/quick.html
March 10th, 2006 (Update)– AMUG conducted a heat study on an internal CPU bay drive kit for the G5 Power Mac. They recommend using the kit’s included 80mm fan to keep the drives cool. As for the effect upon the CPUs, AMUG reported an average of CPU core temp of 116F with three drives mounted in the kit and no fan. That doesn’t worry me since my Quad-Core’s CPUs run at 120F when idling and 150F when looping AltiVec Fractal (390% cpu usage) — and I don’t have a kit installed. By the way, MaxUpgrades’ MaxConnect is the only CPU bay kit that provides an auxillary fan.

Here is the link to the study:
https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/maxconnect/

Seritek external enclosure and card, slightly more expensive ($257.95):
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/SATA1SEN2/

Reviewed here:
https://www.barefeats.com/hard43.html

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Cory Mckechnie]

Hmm, very interesting idea. I’ll have to have a look at those two sites.
Thanks,
Cory