[Mitchji]

Hi,

For information on internal check here:
https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/g5bracket/
https://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/firmtek/1v4/

For information on an external card and enclosure look here:
https://www.barefeats.com/hard46.html

Another review:
https://www.lafcpug.org/reviews/review_seritek.html

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi Patrick,

You might consider installing a bigger hard drive on your Powerbook.
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST9100823A/

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

You don’t need to install the Soundtrack loops and the Livetype Data on the same drive. Its explained here (excerpt below):
https://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials/basic_fcp_4_upgrade.html
Don’t upgrade to Final Cut Pro 4 if you do not have at least 10 GB free on your internal system drive if you want to do a default install. You will require that amount for the full install of LiveType fonts, textures and objects. See later in this article for options if you do not have that much space available. Soundtrack Loops can be installed on any convenient drive, but LiveType’s data will install on the internal drive by default. If you do not have sufficient internal drive space, do not worry, there is a workaround that lets you put LiveType data anywhere you want. See the area later in the article.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[JLW] “2. Analog out. I have clients that still want VHS copies. My DSR-11 deck only has one output which I was using for the NTSC monitor. I don’t want to have to keep plugging and unplugging to make VHS copies through the deck. Is there any other solution for analog output besides going through the deck?”

Hi,

The DSR-11 has both composite and Y/C. You could use one for your monitor and one for your analog deck.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Ron Lindeboom] “Me, I’d prefer a machine that runs all my various OSes that I use and can be rebooted to handle the job at hand.”

Hi Ron,

With OSX running on Intel it will be much easier for companies selling Windows software to port to OSX so there might be more software that is currently Windows only available for OSX.

Also emulation should be a better alternative. The three problems with emulation are:
1. Its not free. We should be able to run a lot of Windows software under OSX using Wine (or something similar) when OSX is on Intel Hardware:
https://www.winehq.com/
Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.

2. Not all Windows software runs with emulators. The number of Windows programs that won’t currently run under OSX (using Virtual PC for example) should decrease when OSX is running on Intel hardware.

3. Emulation is slow. This should be much less of a problem when OSX is running on Intel CPU’s.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[mishka] “In its dev docs Apple doesn’t talk about SSE3, only SSE2 and there is no “translation” but rewrite from the scratch.”

Hi,

Except for programs that are currently cross platform (AE for example).

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

https://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

The PowerPC G5 out-shoots the Pentium 4 in a battery of tests. But it

[Mitchji]

Hi,

https://www.barefeats.com/lcd.html

“I heard about the 24″ Dell 24″ Widescreen LCD Display (2405FPW) from a programmer friend of mine. Apparently many internet forums are buzzing over this display — and for good reason.”

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

https://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050606145053232

excerpt:
The move to Intel will inevitably be a major headache. To know that this is true, all you have to do is look at any recent MacFixIt home page. It is filled with reports of problems related to the release of Mac OS X 10.4.1, a minor upgrade to Tiger. True, most of the reported problems are not serious and many do not affect all users. But this is just for a minor bug-fix update after all. A move to Intel processors is an exponentially larger change. Similarly, the move from 680×0 processors to PowerPCs was successful, but the road got very bumpy at times. The move to Intel is an even greater leap; I expect the road to be even bumpier.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

Get a Dell Ultrasharp. If you watch for deals you can get very very good prices on these monitors. Heres one example (expired) from Dealmac:
new: Dell UltraSharp 20.1″ widescreen LCD display w/DVI for $397 shipped + padding
Once again, the Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20.1″ Widescreen LCD Monitor costs $749 at Dell Home. Add any item to bump your order over $750 (e.g., this CD-R media) and apply coupon codes “S0BDZ6HBTFDPSL” and “79VT3767HP833W” to drop the net price to $396.85, not including the cost of the extra item. With free shipping, that ties last week’s listing for the lowest total price we’ve seen. The 2005FPW sports a native resolution of 1680×1050, 600:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness, an integrated 4-port USB 2.0 hub, and S-Video, composite video, DVI, and VGA inputs. Offer ends May 23 at 7 am ET, but these coupons will likely hit their limits sooner.

Best Wishes,

Mitch