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<blockquote data-quote="charlfourie" data-source="post: 1159729" data-attributes="member: 183824"><p>Hi there everyone,</p><p></p><p>Recently I upgraded my windows laptop for work purposes. So now I have a spare laptop. Posted it up on local classifieds checking to see what someone will offer me for it.</p><p></p><p>I would rather trade than sell and get something and might not buy for myself.</p><p></p><p>So the one offer that did come up was for a 2006 Mac Pro DP 2ghz G5, 2GB RAM and 120gb HDD. I was used in a sound studio and they have upgraded to Intel Macs. </p><p></p><p>I spend a lot of time working on specific photographic projects and shoot a varied amount of Fine Art images. And I was thinking this could be a really fun tool to get for nothing basically.</p><p></p><p>Just want to pick the brains of the forum a bit. </p><p></p><p>The obvious limitation with the G5 units come in no support beyond 10.5, currently the machine is loaded with 10.4 but I have sourced a unused copy of 10.5 still in the packaging which I will get if I go for this offer.</p><p></p><p>Correct me if I am wrong.</p><p>With 10.5 I can run Lightroom 2.x and Photoshop CS4 I can upgrade to memory to at least 8gb and slot in two SATA drives.</p><p></p><p>All in all a very solid machine to be used exclusively for editing.</p><p></p><p>Or I am missing the boat completely? hehe</p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="charlfourie, post: 1159729, member: 183824"] Hi there everyone, Recently I upgraded my windows laptop for work purposes. So now I have a spare laptop. Posted it up on local classifieds checking to see what someone will offer me for it. I would rather trade than sell and get something and might not buy for myself. So the one offer that did come up was for a 2006 Mac Pro DP 2ghz G5, 2GB RAM and 120gb HDD. I was used in a sound studio and they have upgraded to Intel Macs. I spend a lot of time working on specific photographic projects and shoot a varied amount of Fine Art images. And I was thinking this could be a really fun tool to get for nothing basically. Just want to pick the brains of the forum a bit. The obvious limitation with the G5 units come in no support beyond 10.5, currently the machine is loaded with 10.4 but I have sourced a unused copy of 10.5 still in the packaging which I will get if I go for this offer. Correct me if I am wrong. With 10.5 I can run Lightroom 2.x and Photoshop CS4 I can upgrade to memory to at least 8gb and slot in two SATA drives. All in all a very solid machine to be used exclusively for editing. Or I am missing the boat completely? hehe Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
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