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Long time lurker, first time poster.
I'm sure that if I looked hard enough I could find my answer to this, but I felt that ultimately, a directly tailored response would be more time-efficient.
So I hope it's ok if this question is going over old and tired ground.
(Mods, sorry if this is in the wrong section!)
Basically, my G5 has finally given up the ghost. After about a year or so of freezes, kernel panics and no restart except through fsck in single user, the workhorse has finally got to go to the knacker's yard. (7 years hard service is pretty good though I think.)
What should I get next?
My G5 was a dual 2.3ghz powerpc with 4.5gb RAM - when it worked well, it worked very well.
Basically, I work with large volumes of raw files and tiffs, approx 20mb and 144mb (16bit) respectively.
(I will eventually come to use HD footage, but not seriously for few years yet.)
My G5 was ok with .dng files, but, towards the end of it's life, I found it crashed when I opened too many at one (say 3-5 in one go).
I'd like a Mac with spec enough to cope with Canon .cr2 files without any discernable slowdown. I want to have my browser, vlc, dreamweaver, indesign and photoshop all open at the same time and I don't want any lag.
Like I said, my G5, at it's best, just fell short of this ideal. I'd like to have this plus a little extra speed.
What should I get? (I don't need a monitor.)
Money is an issue. Basically, I need to acheive the above ideal,but at the cheapest. (I'm not concerned with getting the best for the cash, I just need enough for the longest for the cash.)
Will a new Mac Mini stuffed full of ram be enough for me? What kind of life span can I expect from it?
Or should I hold out for a 2008 Mac Pro on ebay? If so what spec am I likely to need? (I'm sure I don't need a 12-Core, but will a xeon dual core be sufficiently superior to my old powerpc processor such that I'll see a big difference?)
Are they likely to have, like the G5, a life span of 7 years? Would it be more prudent to invest in a newer machine?
(I suppose that not everyone believes in planned obsolescence, but from what I've read, the people that say "I've had my Mac for a decade and it still runs like a dream" are the exception rather than the rule.)
Any/all opinions welcomed. Thanks in advance,
Jimmy
I'm sure that if I looked hard enough I could find my answer to this, but I felt that ultimately, a directly tailored response would be more time-efficient.
So I hope it's ok if this question is going over old and tired ground.
(Mods, sorry if this is in the wrong section!)
Basically, my G5 has finally given up the ghost. After about a year or so of freezes, kernel panics and no restart except through fsck in single user, the workhorse has finally got to go to the knacker's yard. (7 years hard service is pretty good though I think.)
What should I get next?
My G5 was a dual 2.3ghz powerpc with 4.5gb RAM - when it worked well, it worked very well.
Basically, I work with large volumes of raw files and tiffs, approx 20mb and 144mb (16bit) respectively.
(I will eventually come to use HD footage, but not seriously for few years yet.)
My G5 was ok with .dng files, but, towards the end of it's life, I found it crashed when I opened too many at one (say 3-5 in one go).
I'd like a Mac with spec enough to cope with Canon .cr2 files without any discernable slowdown. I want to have my browser, vlc, dreamweaver, indesign and photoshop all open at the same time and I don't want any lag.
Like I said, my G5, at it's best, just fell short of this ideal. I'd like to have this plus a little extra speed.
What should I get? (I don't need a monitor.)
Money is an issue. Basically, I need to acheive the above ideal,but at the cheapest. (I'm not concerned with getting the best for the cash, I just need enough for the longest for the cash.)
Will a new Mac Mini stuffed full of ram be enough for me? What kind of life span can I expect from it?
Or should I hold out for a 2008 Mac Pro on ebay? If so what spec am I likely to need? (I'm sure I don't need a 12-Core, but will a xeon dual core be sufficiently superior to my old powerpc processor such that I'll see a big difference?)
Are they likely to have, like the G5, a life span of 7 years? Would it be more prudent to invest in a newer machine?
(I suppose that not everyone believes in planned obsolescence, but from what I've read, the people that say "I've had my Mac for a decade and it still runs like a dream" are the exception rather than the rule.)
Any/all opinions welcomed. Thanks in advance,
Jimmy