Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 17:36 UTC
During yet another press event, Apple introduced new PowerMacs and PowerBooks as well as a new photo application called Aperture. The fastest new PowerMac holds two dual-core G5 processors at 2.5Ghz each, while the two lower-end models have one dual-core G5 at 2.0 or 2.3Ghz. The dual-core G5s have 1MB L2 cache per core. The 15" and 17" PowerBooks now have 1440x960 and 1680x1050 resolutions. Aperture is post-production photo software built for professional photographers.
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RE[3]: faster processors result in.......
by on Thu 20th Oct 2005 13:43
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Member since:Celerate, I don't normally comment on these posts, but I can vouch that Tiger runs well on both a G3 500Mhz iMac that my brother owns and a G4 400Mhz PowerMac that work "donated" to me because no-one else wanted it. What do I mean by runs well? I wouldn't necessarily use iMovie, or do heaps with iPhoto on them, but the 400 runs as well as the 1.6Ghz (768Mb RAM) Celeron Win XP system that sits right next to it that I have to use for a particular app at work; and for what my brother needs to do (web, email blah blah blah), the iMac is just fine. The only caveat - 512Mb of RAM. I'm genuinely surprised by how flexible Tiger is when I use either of these Macs.
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Everyone here knows I'm not incredibly fond of Microsoft, but I still use Windows and would like to be able to continue using it as long as some of the more exotic hardware and software I need isn't well supported in Linux. I've never had the chance to use a mac, they aren't even sold in the city I live in.
As you made that point I was reminded that as soon as Vista is release my computers that are no more than two or three years old will become obsolete; I did hear that Microsoft is going to make it possible to run Vista on what are current machines from as far back as a few years, but I'm concerned that wouldn't be much different than running Windows XP on a Pentium III 500 is today, that might be a reasonable speed for web browsing and e-mail, but not for a developer.
If Mac OS X Tiger can still run on an old machine from 8 years ago that's not only impresive but also a major selling point in my books.
BTW. I don't really know how far back the G3's go, I just said 8 years because that is what I would consider a reasonable life span for a computer, 10 years would be better since good computers still aren't cheap investments.