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[Zane H. Healy]

>A few of the 68K Mac loving people I talk to on IRC have been getting into
>older SGI machines (Origins and older Indy). So is the Dual G5 worth the
>cash? While I like older 68K Nubus Macs, anything from the PPC generation
>and beyond never interested me (except for a 7500 PCI powermac I needed to
>run a Videovision Telecast Setup).

Take a look at the design and architecture of the Dual CPU G5 (the 
single 1.8Ghz model they just released is a travesty as the FSB only 
runs at 600Mhz, rather than the 900Mhz it should).  The only computer 
I can compare it to is the SGI Octane.

I've only been running Mac OS X for the last year and a half as my 
primary OS.  My G4/450 AGP is one of the originals that shipped with 
a special G4 version of Mac OS 8.6, and iTunes is the only reason I 
upgraded to 9.  It wasn't until 10.2 that I considered Mac OS X 
usable (I tested every version).  What really impressed me was 
Safari, as it made it so that my G4/450 was fast enough to surf on 
once again.

Personally I think Mac OS X still has a ways to go (see my last email 
for my complaints about the VM subsystem), but it's got a Unix Layer, 
a usable GUI, a filesystem browser I've become fanatical about :^), 
and more importantly it runs the Adobe Apps I need, and has 
professional video and audio editing applications.  While I'm running 
the latest version of MS Office, I'm not sure if that's a plus or a 
minus :^)

		Zane

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