Posts by G520incher

Hello, I'm at home less and less these days so I have decided to trade in my PowerMac G5 single 1.6 Ghz towards a new 15 inch Powerbook, and keep my 20 inch Cinema for when I AM at home. The PowerMac is stock except for the 1.5 GB...

I'm also looking into a dual 2.7 G5 for my main render machine but have been waiting on it since the IBM 970 MP announcement. I'm waiting till the Paris Expo, and here's why: They might release dual core machines on that date, and...

Does anyone here currently own both machines? Could you give me an idea of differences in speed between the two? Any idea where I could find some benchmarks on both? Thanks.

I won't be doing any kind of motion or animation work and I rarely exceed 20 layers on an image. I have definitely considered getting the 15 inch for the extra screen real estate but I spend a great deal of time on public...

Ok, I know one is slower but by the specs can I expect it to be a huge amount slower? I have a PowerMac G5 single 1.6 Ghz and I'm thinking of trading it in towards a 12 inch Powerbook 1.5 Ghz because I want to become nearly completely...

Hey, This weekend I am thinking of purchasing OSX Tiger. I currently run OSX 10.2.8 Jaguar on my 1.6 Ghz PowerMac G5 with 1.5 GB Ram and the 5200 Ultra video board. What kind of speed increases can I expect? Will I notice...

Canada online store has all duals now.

In response to icfireball: 10.2.8 came with my G5 (single 1.6 Ghz, 1st gen.). When Panther came out I figured I'd wait for a few updates, make sure all the kinks were out, and then buy that but it just got put on the backburner too...

Hi everyone, I read the post about the webcams for powerbooks but I have a G5 desktop running 10.2.8 and a 20 inch cinema. Can anyone suggest a cheap, good quality webcam for use with my system?? Also, are webcams on Macs...

Hey all, Ignore my previous post. The head of the recording dept. of the store where I bought everything, just emailed me back and said that in fact they had an Oxygen 8 there that was hooked up through midi to their pro tools setup,...