Paul, A MacBook is not as fast as a G5 2.0DP running Photoshop, by a long ways. It's a matter of bus performance: I've compared them directly, with instrumentation.Neither is a G4 DP 1.25. The MacBook Pro is on par with a G5 2GDP: faster bus, better graphics card, but drives are slower so you have to be careful.
The Mac Pro towers wup all of them into the dust! My brother had a video processing job that his 2.5Ghz DP G5 was going to take 22 hours to complete. A friend loaned him a Mac Pro Quad-Core that smacked it down to 4.2 hours. Now that's fast. ;-) Godfrey On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But keep in mind that if you're only concerned about how well the > machine will run right now, a top of the line G4 will do just fine. > My dual 1.25 G4 with a huge scratch disk and 2 gigs of RAM is just > as fast runing PSCS 1 as my Macbook 2 Ghz Intel Cord Duo with 1 gig > of Ram is running PSCS 3. if you just want to process photos on a > Mac platform with currently available operating system and software, > the best G4s will serve you well. If you're thinking ahead, you will > want an Intel machine. A G5 is kind of caught in the middle: It > costs a lot more than a G4, yet, like the G4, it has no future. > Paul. > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Mat Maessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On 6/25/08, Walter Hamler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Knowing that several of you use Macs, I am looking for advice. >>> I am looking at getting a used/refurbished G4 or G5 to use for >>> photography >> ONLY. >>> I know I want a big external drive for storage backup, but what >>> about >>> internal main drive ? >> >> I haven't priced them recently, but a decent dual-processor G5 >> machine >> was going for as much as a used Intel iMac last time I looked. Like >> Godfrey, I would not recommend getting a G4 at this point in time. >> >> I'm happy with my dual 2.5 Ghz G5 tower, but if I were to do it >> again, >> I'd take the same money and put it into an Intel Core 2 Duo based >> iMac. Performance-wise, it'll beat the G5 in most tasks, except maybe >> those requiring serious graphics speed, like video rendering. The >> Intel macs are also more future-proof, as rumors that I've heard is >> that the OSX 10.6 release will be Intel only. >> >> Be warned, if you do get a G5 tower, they tend to suck a LOT of >> power. >> I need to upgrade the UPS I have mine plugged into (APC 700VA unit) >> because it doesn't have enough capacity to run the the machine >> +monitor >> for more than 2 minutes. >> >> -Mat >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow >> the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
