I'm working on a G5 Mac tower with a Dual 2.7 GHz chip and 8 GB Ram...
Running OSX 10.5.8. with a 20 " Apple cinema screen and an Eizo 19"
Flexscan monitor. I keep the color corrected and still have fantastic
accuracy on the apple monitor. The Eizo is used mostly for panels and stuff.
It's 7 years old this month. And it flies through the top-end
Photoshopping that I do regularly. I get sent huge layered Tiff files of
60MP images. They can be a GB in size... Of course it won't run CS5 but
I'm not finished with CS4 yet! And I know pro photoshoppers working in CS3!
I can have 3 or 4 big files open with 80 history states and I have no
problems. No crashes and no viruses. and every time I switch it back on
it's like a new machine.
I wish I had the money for a new intel tower with the big screen... it's
yummy but I can't justify it when my machine is doing fine.
No complaints with Mac.
Herschel
On 9/26/11 9:32 PM, Andy wrote:
OS X is now ten years old so you really do need to move on with your abandonment diatribe. It doesn't hold up. As for values of hardware, Check your facts again. A two year old Mac has less depreciation that a 2 year old pc. Just look at eBay. The used Mac market thrives. You couldn't sell a two year old PC if you tried.
If you think MS has your back, I guess you haven't moved to windows 7 yet then because they have the same obsolescence built in to because the finally got rid of 8 and 16 bit compatibility. Good luck running it on a two year old machine. Aero requires the performance just to open a window and 2 GB of memory to just run the OS. Talk about an operating system that brings nothing new to the table but cripples a screaming fast machine. No thanks. I have to use it at work but no where else.
Andy
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On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:39 PM, David Dyer-Bennet<dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2011-09-26 15:40, Andy wrote:
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On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:45 AM, David Dyer-Bennet<dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, September 26, 2011 04:56, Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
At 11:07 AM +0100 9/24/11, wildimages@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Nobody includes back-comptability today.
Actually, that's not true. Apple has maintained backwards
compatibility with its proprietary software for at least 4 versions
of its operating system. Only with the most recent new version are
they finally breaking that.
Funny you should mention Apple; since they've abused their customers by
breaking backwards compatibility worse than any other company I've ever
heard of. Even worse than Canon!
First there were 68000-based Macs, then PowerPC-based Macs, then OS-X,
then Intel-based Macs (or maybe I've got the order wrong there). Each
switch required a complete software re-load and re-buy. I'm amazed there
are any Mac users left at all; but I know people who've been through every
step of that nightmare, and still praise Apple. There's some kind of
reality-distortion field involved, I think.
Funny you should rail on apple in particular. Apple actually allowed for each transitional break from hardware plat forms to be one version backwards compatible. Exactly opposite of what you claim. The transition from PowerPC to intel in osx has been heralded as the most successful and invisible from a user standpoint. All of the burden was on the software developers. Apple even gave developers a program environment to compile code for all existing platforms. Look up Coco, universal application, Rosetta before you trash apple about not being backwards comparable. Yell at adobe for being slow to convert their work. Yell at Microsoft for refusing to admit it was time to move on. Apple supported developers all along the way a gave tools to keep moving. Adobe and MS and quicken ect chose to neglect their mac customers and take their money without making the software have feature parity to the Ms equivalents.
I've seen people complaining about re-buying all their software, and I've watched the used price of hardware disappear, and I've seen people forced into upgrades, over and over again. One version isn't very much.
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