I'm officially a Mac user now

[guitar man]

A friend who was upgrading to a new one gave me a G4 FireWire 800 with dual 1.42ghz processors and 2gb ram. I got a Mac 22" cinema display monitor with it. It might be 6-7 years old or so, but it still smokes the pants off any windows machine I've ever used!

:D :woohoo:

[struggle4progress]

1. I used a G4 at work for several years. I thought it was a nice machine

[guitar man]

2. It's really fast and smooth

I played with it for a few hours this evening and it did everything I asked it to do without any hesitation.

From what Ive read about it, it's the last of the G4 line before the G5 came out and this one was the top of the line. It was a really nice freebie for sure. :D

[guitar man]

3. my new baby

new to me any way :)

[alfredo]

4. Should be able to push some polygons with that one. I had

an earlier G4 dual the 450 AGP. It's still in use at our local Democratic Party. It still has Photoshop 7 on it.

[guitar man]

6. fantastic

A pc that age would have hit the junk bin a long time ago

[alfredo]

8. When it comes time to move up, I believe Yellow Dog Linux

makes Linux for the PPC platform.

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/

[guitar man]

9. cool

Only problem is I don't think protools will run on it :(

[alfredo]

10. True. I hated losing Photoshop when I moved to Intel.

[MrMickeysMom]

5. I have a PowerBook G4 with 400 FireWire... got it Nov 04...

It still kicks ass, especially since I FINALLY figured out how to update it (system disks are like gold for some of the "pre-Intel" machines to update.

Welcome to the world of Macintosh. I'm good for a few more years until I spring for whatever else kicks the shit out of PCs.

:hi:

[guitar man]

7. thanks

:hi:

I'm hoping it won't be too hard to find the discs I'll need, I didn't get any discs with this one since the person that gave it to me still has more macs on a network that need them. My boss at work is a Mac guru so I think he can come up with what I need t keep it going.