Which PowerMac would you buy now?
I am planning to buy a Mac for some video editing. Basically conversion from tapes and TV programs (movies) to DVD with firewire and IMovie and Toast.
Perhaps with a Miglia DVR PCI card compatible with G4 and G5.
Or am I wrong about the picture quality of this card?
And perhaps some sound editing and word processing.
Which Mac has the best price/quality ratio?
The advantages of the G4 are OS9 bootable, more space for hard drives and optical drives, faster results with I Tunes but I assume it will be slower for video conversion.
The G5 dual 1.8 would have been more attractive with PCI-X slots.
When I compare those Macs with the same configuration, the new G5 Dual 2.5 has the best MHz/$ ratio. However, it costs a lot of money.
Personally, I was thinking about the G5 1.8 anyway, because I doubt that I will need the PCI-X technology in the near future. But then I have read that the this G5 1.8 has a slower logic board. Does this only refer to the lack of PCI slots or will this Mac be significant slower when I convert DV files to mp4?
And what I was worried about is the benchmarks of the new G5s posted at www.xbench.com . Perhaps it has to do something with the Energy saver setting, but the CPU benchtest of a G5 2x1.8 and even 2x2.0 is sometimes slower than the G4 Dual 1.25...
Or are the new CPUs of the 2nd generation really slower?
TIA
Perhaps with a Miglia DVR PCI card compatible with G4 and G5.
Or am I wrong about the picture quality of this card?
And perhaps some sound editing and word processing.
Which Mac has the best price/quality ratio?
The advantages of the G4 are OS9 bootable, more space for hard drives and optical drives, faster results with I Tunes but I assume it will be slower for video conversion.
The G5 dual 1.8 would have been more attractive with PCI-X slots.
When I compare those Macs with the same configuration, the new G5 Dual 2.5 has the best MHz/$ ratio. However, it costs a lot of money.
Personally, I was thinking about the G5 1.8 anyway, because I doubt that I will need the PCI-X technology in the near future. But then I have read that the this G5 1.8 has a slower logic board. Does this only refer to the lack of PCI slots or will this Mac be significant slower when I convert DV files to mp4?
And what I was worried about is the benchmarks of the new G5s posted at www.xbench.com . Perhaps it has to do something with the Energy saver setting, but the CPU benchtest of a G5 2x1.8 and even 2x2.0 is sometimes slower than the G4 Dual 1.25...
Or are the new CPUs of the 2nd generation really slower?
TIA
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But would I get better picture quality results with the Miglia PCI card or should I get the firewire version or wait for a PCI-X version instead?
TIA
Originally posted by Mac Hammer Fan
I don't have the cash for the G5 2x2.5 now but it seems that it will be worth waiting another six months until the next price drop...
But would I get better picture quality results with the Miglia PCI card or should I get the firewire version or wait for a PCI-X version instead?
TIA
could be a year like last time, i wouldnt put much weight into itunes. G5 is still running in G4 mode at the moment for most things but this will change with newer OS. When OS is in full G5 mode and apps written for G5 these things will be screaming. my 2 cents. I wouldnt even think of G4 unless its pure budget reasons. G4 is old 4 cylinder running out of gas, G5 is a V-8 and has a full tank. Mac hammer fan any G5 will do what you want. I only want a dual 2.5 because Doom3 is coming
The single processors are slower than a G4 Dual 1.25, according to www.barefeats.com , www.xbench.com , www.macspeedzone.com and www.xlr8yourmac.com
If someone can assure me that the CPU speed of the new 1.8 is the same as the old one, I will buy the 1.8 because I doubt I will need the PCI-X feature in the near future. And woudn't these PCI-X cards be much more expensive...?
And perhaps PCI Express will become the standard in the next years?
TIA
I will wait a couple of days before I make a decision to buy a G5 1.8 or a G5 2.5 ...
It seems that most of you guys recommend the faster siblings. ( unlike at www.macaddict.com )
I am happy with the fast replies in this forum.
(at MacNN I still wait on the first reply after two days)
Greetings
MHF
(aside: I think that actually, your odds of getting a DOA machine are probably lower than with new, since they've got to get re-certified after going through refurbishment.)
CV
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But the latter has 128 MB RAM, twice as much as the Geoforce.
Strange...
I had originally planned on waiting to November of this year when the 3.0's would be out? based on Steve's overly optimistic prediction? and buy the midline dual, which hopefully would be 2.75GHZ. However, the way things are going with the 90n chip it's entirely possible that when the 3.0 comes out, maybe at late as next February, Apple's lineup will be 3.0, 2.5 and 2.0. So why wait.
Originally posted by Mac Hammer Fan
I checked the Graphics test at www.xbench.com and the Geoforce 5200 is faster than the Radeon 9600...
But the latter has 128 MB RAM, twice as much as the Geoforce.
Strange...
be very careful what they do is run some stale bench at a low resolution like 640 x 480 and say see its faster, what they dont show is as you turn up the resolution to say 1024 or higher that crappy fx5200 starts dropping frames right away. make no mistake the fx5200 is garbage at anything higher then 640 x 480. xbench does not measure these things correctly. if you want to do that you need a good powerful game and start cranking it up. Fx5200 is cheap to make,cheap to buy for Apple. I would only recommend this garbage card to people who are so boring they dont play any games. inside mac games,toms hardware, barefeats etc all have many benches. FX5200= garbage no otherway around that.
I have noticed at Barefeats that the Radeon is much better.
At Lowendmac, this machine was even rated as the best value for money.
http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/04/0609.html
It's a pity that I don't live in the States. I would have bought the Dual G5 1.8 rev A.
How much faster is this G5 2.5 in comparison to the G5 2.0 Ghz?
I assume 25% in CPU. But not in graphics or disk speed, unless you buy the high end NVIDIA 6800...
TIA