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Posted by: coius on 2013-04-12 04:39:49
I went to do a job for a customer at her home office and while doing work she handed me a G5. She was unsure what to do with it. I wasn't sure about the specs and I was kind of apprehensive about taking it (not very fond of G5s). I ended up taking it though. The specs are:
2x 2.3Ghz G5 (PPC970) non dual core
4.5GB DDR-3200 RAM
250GB Maxtor HDD
DVD-+RW DL (Super Drive)
Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB VRAM
Original Power Cable.
That's pretty much it. No airport card, no BT module.
I loaded up 10.5 on a set of WD 80GB Velociraptor drives (10K RPM, SATA II w/ 16MB cache I think) in a striped config (I didn't know OS X booted off SoftSTRIPED drives with Disk utility but it does)
This is the model with PCI-X and AGP 8x Pro still, So no PCI-E expansion and no PCI-E graphics. Boo!
It's also not water cooled so I don't have to worry about that.
Anyone know if an older final cut pro would still be usable on this system as a decent older editing system for video? or if I should just forget it?
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Posted by: TheEisenfaust on 2013-04-12 14:31:37
I've got a copy of Final Cust Pro 4 (last PPC version) that you can use, just stop by my place sometime to install it. BTW you still owe me for trashing my video card on my G5 lol.
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Posted by: MinerAl on 2013-04-12 17:51:40
Are you guys both in Omaha?
I've been in KC for 10 years but I spent my 20s in Omaha. Still have lots of family and friends there.
Next time I'm up maybe we can have a swap meet.
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Posted by: Hrududu on 2013-04-12 18:01:28
Final Cut Pro 7 (from Final Cut Studio 3) actually works just fine on the G5 even though Apple sold it as Intel only. Its actually a universal binary and I have it installed on my Quad G5 and on my dual 2.0GHz model before that. It'll run on yours since you have the 9600 with 128MB of RAM.
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Posted by: TheEisenfaust on 2013-04-12 18:39:20
@MinerAl Yeah we are both in Omaha. Heck, I live just a few blocks from his old digs lol.
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Posted by: coius on 2013-04-13 14:15:03
Thanks TheEisenfaust.
I will probably be by my old haunt next monday (got parts coming in). I will stop by to get it.
Anyways, Hrududu, how was the performance on your dual 2.0? I just thought I would ask you since you have a better idea of the performance on a dual 2.3 than anyone else. I know FCP X doesn't do the best on a MacBook, although it performs decently on my Ivy-Bridge mac *cough*
It would be interesting to see how it's gonna work...
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