what are YOU doing with your G5 computers

[Micah Mcdowell]

Wow, I didn’t think that it was possible for FCP7 on a G5, no way, no how.

I was pondering the exact same question of what to do with my trusty dual 2.7 G5 last night. Do I drop a few hundred in it to keep it usable for another year (add an SSD boot drive, max out the RAM, upgrade all my apps, polish up the aluminum)?

Or… do I ditch it on eBay while it still has some resale value and get that new 17″ i7 Macbook Pro that I’ve been eying? Will I be disappointed?

[John Heagy]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Use them as a SAN controller. ;)”

Don’t even joke about that! Using a G5 as a metadata controller is akin to hauling nitro glycerin in a horse drawn carriage across a cobblestone street.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Did you see my wink? Did you?

[Tom Matthies]

I still use my old G5 and a couple of Ciprico RAIDS as a kind of off-line storage. I have all of my machines networked through a Gigibit router. I have a PC running ProCoder software and I use the G5 as a Source/Target for the PC. I dump files from the MacPro to the G5 and then use the PC/Procoder to do compression while I continue to work on the MacPro. I usually need to export files in a streaming video format that only Procoder will encode to. I can do all of this off-line and not tie up the other machines. The Gigibit connections really speed things up.

Faster! Better! Cheaper!
Pick any two.