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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 350001" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>Hi bryanisfishing, welcome to Mac Forums!!!</p><p></p><p>As you can see from my signature block, I have pretty much the same machine at home that you have at work. I can personally vouch for its performance running Photoshop.</p><p></p><p>The dual 2.7 GHz was the fastest G5 released, but they were replaced by the quad 2.5 GHz models. IMHO, the dual 2.3 GHz is a fine machine. I have been very happy with it. </p><p></p><p>I would not bother saving for a Mac Pro. For now at least, things like Photoshop and Microsoft Office will run much faster on the PowerMac than the Mac Pro, since the Mac Pro has to run them under Rosetta.</p><p></p><p>4 GB of RAM may be more than you need. I am running 2.5 GB of RAM, and I can see from MenuMeters that I have never exhausted my available RAM. So you may be able to save some $$ by dropping to about 2 GB.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 350001, member: 17052"] Hi bryanisfishing, welcome to Mac Forums!!! As you can see from my signature block, I have pretty much the same machine at home that you have at work. I can personally vouch for its performance running Photoshop. The dual 2.7 GHz was the fastest G5 released, but they were replaced by the quad 2.5 GHz models. IMHO, the dual 2.3 GHz is a fine machine. I have been very happy with it. I would not bother saving for a Mac Pro. For now at least, things like Photoshop and Microsoft Office will run much faster on the PowerMac than the Mac Pro, since the Mac Pro has to run them under Rosetta. 4 GB of RAM may be more than you need. I am running 2.5 GB of RAM, and I can see from MenuMeters that I have never exhausted my available RAM. So you may be able to save some $$ by dropping to about 2 GB. [/QUOTE]
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