I wanted to get a 2nd mac for my setup running current OS X. Anyone have any thoughts on how a G4 500 or so will run?? I havent run OS X on a machine that slow. I just wanted it for basic email and surfing....
we have a old 450mhz (g4) here at the office I tried panther on and it made a huge improvement actually. It has 384 megs of ram too. I think for itunes and web browsing a 500 would be just fine.
Heck... for a long time (until sometime in the middle of this year) Dan Knight of Low End Mac was doing his web production work on a 400Mhz PowerBook G4!
I run a dual 450 with 512 MB RAM as my primary production machine and it gets the job done quite nicely. It doesn't impress in the speed department, however, it is a very diligent machine. I've used far more powerful (windows) machines and they seem to come to a point where they can'T handle any more and consequently slow down dramatically. I have never had that happen on my ol' 450.
I'm curious how jag or panther runs on a fast machine. I've ordered a 15" 1.25 Powerbook since I need something for the train and plane trips...
Basically any G4 will run OS X fine, because of the AltiVec processes. I wouldn't recommend OS X on a G3 slower than 600Mhz. It's just really slow. My G3 600 iMac runs it fast, but still not as fast as a 500 G4
G4 Cube 450mhz here. 384mb of ram. Runs like a dream. I can run photoshop, Final cut pro 3, iMovie, iTunes, mail, safari, warcraft III (although the graphics suck). A 500mhz G4 is extremely capable of handling Jaguar or Panther. I got Jaguar the day it came out, same with Panther. Runs extremely well, not a problem in the world. Sure, there are faster computers out there, but this one is going strong. Go for it, that thing will handle OS X like it's its job. Oh...wait, it is...
AGP G4 400mhz with 1.2 gigs of ram. Jaguar runs great can do everything i need. iTunes browsing emailing some work with final cut express and photoshop. Its great. Also have panther running on my secondary machine before i install it on this one...g3 imac dv and it runs just fine. great for tunes browsing and emailing and i do some small photoshop work on it.
I was thinking of buying an upgrade card for my agp graphics g4? Is it worht it? Saw an 800mhz g4 card for 199 I'm tempted...
AGP G4 400mhz with 1.2 gigs of ram. Jaguar runs great can do everything i need. iTunes browsing emailing some work with final cut express and photoshop. Its great. Also have panther running on my secondary machine before i install it on this one...g3 imac dv and it runs just fine. great for tunes browsing and emailing and i do some small photoshop work on it.
I was thinking of buying an upgrade card for my agp graphics g4? Is it worht it? Saw an 800mhz g4 card for 199 I'm tempted...
With Final cut and photoshop, probably. However, if you have less then 512MB RAM, then upgrade RAM first and see how you like it.
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The G4 500 should be perfect for what you want to do with it.
I use my main G4 for music production...but want to run reason and soundtrack possibly on this machine..
Worked great.
I'm curious how jag or panther runs on a fast machine. I've ordered a 15" 1.25 Powerbook since I need something for the train and plane trips...
runs jag ok actually. lags a bit but not too bad. hopefully panther will improve it.
but for mail, and browsing its fine
I was thinking of buying an upgrade card for my agp graphics g4? Is it worht it? Saw an 800mhz g4 card for 199 I'm tempted...
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AGP G4 400mhz with 1.2 gigs of ram. Jaguar runs great can do everything i need. iTunes browsing emailing some work with final cut express and photoshop. Its great. Also have panther running on my secondary machine before i install it on this one...g3 imac dv and it runs just fine. great for tunes browsing and emailing and i do some small photoshop work on it.
I was thinking of buying an upgrade card for my agp graphics g4? Is it worht it? Saw an 800mhz g4 card for 199 I'm tempted...
With Final cut and photoshop, probably. However, if you have less then 512MB RAM, then upgrade RAM first and see how you like it.