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My Official "Help me buy a Mac" Thread
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<blockquote data-quote="DarkestRitual" data-source="post: 912750" data-attributes="member: 96273"><p>I'd say you got a solid deal, man. That's pretty cheap, and I feel like Mac2Sell tends to value machines lower than what people end up paying for them in the market.</p><p></p><p>I'd buy that machine at the price you got, and I don't even need it. As for bus speeds, yea, 133MHz is a slow bus speed, but what can you do? I remember around 2004 when I bought my first mac (well, my first personal mac, I had always had macs they were just owned by my family) I went all out and got the dual 2GHz PPC G5 rev C... The bus speed on that was 1GHz, which smoked pretty much everything else that was out in the mac line by 4 or 5 times. Pretty much, that computer would still be formidable today (if I hadn't fried the logic board).</p><p></p><p>When I bought my current aluminum MacBook, I was looking to replace my power mac G5, and basically that's all I did. I got faster RAM with it and more graphics memory, but even 5 years later my processor speed and bus speed were still the same. So, I mean that machine was cutting edge at the time, this machine is more middle of the road, but still. The machine you bought is nothing to scoff at. It should run and run well for quite a while. Watching flash videos online I guarantee will be choppy, but what can you do. (You'd think that codec writers would make flash less CPU intensive... it used to work just fine with slower processors, now you have to have like 1.5GHz at least for it to not even be choppy... what the heck is up with that?) It just seems very inefficient the way they do it. It hogs CPU usage like a mofo, heats up your gear, and I imagine it can't be good for your cpu to be putting it through its paces all the time just to watch a video, which you could watch in quicktime at a much less taxing pace to the cpu...</p><p></p><p>Sorry, I got off topic there. I like to rant about flash player being a pain in the butt and too CPU intensive, since it used to run fine on my fiancee's 1.25GHz eMac G4 and now it's all choppy with the latest incarnations.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, congrats on a solid machine! I'm envious! May it serve you well for a long time!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DarkestRitual, post: 912750, member: 96273"] I'd say you got a solid deal, man. That's pretty cheap, and I feel like Mac2Sell tends to value machines lower than what people end up paying for them in the market. I'd buy that machine at the price you got, and I don't even need it. As for bus speeds, yea, 133MHz is a slow bus speed, but what can you do? I remember around 2004 when I bought my first mac (well, my first personal mac, I had always had macs they were just owned by my family) I went all out and got the dual 2GHz PPC G5 rev C... The bus speed on that was 1GHz, which smoked pretty much everything else that was out in the mac line by 4 or 5 times. Pretty much, that computer would still be formidable today (if I hadn't fried the logic board). When I bought my current aluminum MacBook, I was looking to replace my power mac G5, and basically that's all I did. I got faster RAM with it and more graphics memory, but even 5 years later my processor speed and bus speed were still the same. So, I mean that machine was cutting edge at the time, this machine is more middle of the road, but still. The machine you bought is nothing to scoff at. It should run and run well for quite a while. Watching flash videos online I guarantee will be choppy, but what can you do. (You'd think that codec writers would make flash less CPU intensive... it used to work just fine with slower processors, now you have to have like 1.5GHz at least for it to not even be choppy... what the heck is up with that?) It just seems very inefficient the way they do it. It hogs CPU usage like a mofo, heats up your gear, and I imagine it can't be good for your cpu to be putting it through its paces all the time just to watch a video, which you could watch in quicktime at a much less taxing pace to the cpu... Sorry, I got off topic there. I like to rant about flash player being a pain in the butt and too CPU intensive, since it used to run fine on my fiancee's 1.25GHz eMac G4 and now it's all choppy with the latest incarnations. Anyway, congrats on a solid machine! I'm envious! May it serve you well for a long time! [/QUOTE]
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