I want a very high quality computer

kalikali
Posted:
in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
O damn ! I'm totally bored of computer shoppings !



I'm using a very old (about 10 years) computer at home and some relatively old iMac at work.



I have (unfortunately) very high standards about computers and I'm really proud of my good old Mac IIci (boosted) <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> . This computer was (and still is) a very good machine at its time. It's powerfull enough for my normal serious stuff (wordprocessing, drawings, some maths with Mathematica), but not for the internet, games, 3D Modeling and massive Mathematica stuff.



So that's why I now feel the urge to buy a new computer (rest in peace, IIci ! Long live, IIci ! sniff !).



So I read and read lots of stuff on the internet to choose the right computer for, I hope, another 10 years (??).



Sadly, I'm reading many discouraging comments about video cards, crippled bus or motherboard, poorly supported software (video card drivers) and such. And now, I don't know what to choose anymore. It's not like 10 years ago, when all was so clear.



Ok, ppl, sorry for this long complains letter but I needed to write it, just to clear my mind.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 7
    neomacneomac Posts: 145member
    [quote]Originally posted by Kali:

    <strong>Sadly, I'm reading many discouraging comments about video cards, crippled bus or motherboard, poorly supported software (video card drivers) and such. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    In that case, you would be listening to the complaints of children who have nothing better to do with their time. Most of the forums are kids.



    Buy a new iMac. You'll be set for years.
  • Reply 2 of 7
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    Neomac has it right.



    A new iMac should serve you quite well for 4-5 years.
  • Reply 3 of 7
    tigerwoods99tigerwoods99 Posts: 2,633member
    Um, who the heck was complaining. I can't be much happier with my new G4. I read over at xlr8yourmac an interview with some guy from ATI and he effectively said that they had crippled the Mac Radeon 8500 in a couple ways. Sorry if I discouraged you Kali. It depends on your budget, but if I were you I'd get a 933 and wait for the GF4 Ti cards to come out. hell the 800 is gonna be really fast for you so you could even do that and go for the top dogg Ti 4600. I'd recommend going with a GF4 Ti 4400 for video card, that's what I'll do. And up that RAM! Now hurry up before the G5s are out.
  • Reply 4 of 7
    kalikali Posts: 634member
    [quote]Originally posted by TigerWoods99:

    <strong>It depends on your budget, but if I were you I'd get a 933 and wait for the GF4 Ti cards to come out. hell the 800 is gonna be really fast for you so you could even do that and go for the top dogg Ti 4600. I'd recommend going with a GF4 Ti 4400 for video card, that's what I'll do. And up that RAM! Now hurry up before the G5s are out. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    I was thinking about the 933MHz with the Radeon 8500 card. It appears the NVidia card doesn't support many features on the Mac. That's what puzzle me so much, and I wonder about the crippled ATI cards too.



    I feel like the Mac is a very poor children for those video companies. They just don't care about Mac users.



    And when the OpenGL should be updated ?



    About the G5, I'm sure they wont show up until next january 2003. You will see another G4 upgrades before and some bus tweaks. I can put a bill on this. Look at Apple history, that's the way they'll do it. No G5 until next year.



    Anyway, the G5 is just a marketing bubble. You wont have 64 bit software until a long time and the G5 will not be that fast on 32 bit software. My mind is in peace on this matter.
  • Reply 5 of 7
    tigerwoods99tigerwoods99 Posts: 2,633member
    Well for my sake maybe I should hope a G5 is a long ways away hehehe. I honestly say go for the 933 w/Radeon 7500 (you save $100). Then if you like the ATI card, put in a Radeon 8500. If the features you want arent there, buy a GF4 Ti (you can still get a 128 MB one for 200 something in the 4400). Also you can upgrade the RAM. Honestly I was impressed with the speed of that 933 and nearly got it, but I wanted top of the line I guess.
  • Reply 6 of 7
    kalikali Posts: 634member
    [quote]Originally posted by TigerWoods99:

    <strong>Honestly I was impressed with the speed of that 933 and nearly got it, but I wanted top of the line I guess.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Ok, then I have some questions for you.



    1-What configuration do you have in your dual ?



    2-What apps are you using ?



    3-How do you feel the normal uses of this comp, compared to the 933MHz ? Do you feel a real difference ? What exactly make it appears faster than the 933MHz ? (please, no artificial benchmarks, like Quake FPS or Photoshop's gaussian blur)



    4-Did you experienced any lags, glitches, problems of any kind with the dual (and maybe the 933MHz) ?



    5-Please, says something about DVD playback (you have the GeF4 MX card ?).



    Thanks.
  • Reply 7 of 7
    tigerwoods99tigerwoods99 Posts: 2,633member
    I have the stock configuration



    DP 1 GHz G4/512 MB RAM/Superdrive/80 GB HD/nVidia GeForce4 MX



    Right now my machine is looking pretty bare as I have to get apps over the weekend (dowloading them off high-speed line since I am on dial-up here). I also don't have any DVDs because we've never had a DVD player at home. First and foremost I can tell you that you will not notice a huge real world difference. The 933 opened stuff up pretty much instantly as did the DP 1 GHz. I did notice that it took a few bounces to open iDVD. Not long at all however. I didn't spend a long time on either machine. If you use Photoshop you are going to notice a huge gain in performance with the dual. Any SMP aware program will deliver some nice gains, and OS X will run a bit faster. Sorry I am not much in the way of help right now for your questions but I plan on doing some major benchmarking.
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