Thoughts on Dual 2.7 G5

#31 Wed, 5 Jan 2011 - 03:58

I can see wanting the best and last generation of PPC software running macs, just like I have a fondness for the last OS 9.x booting mac.

So could I, which is why I have a quad G5 and a dual MDD/1.25, both of which I bought new for exactly such purposes.

#32 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 - 21:49

why coudnt a g5 do youtube? its just flash.... which is one of the simplest forms of animation on the web

#33 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 - 01:03

why coudnt a g5 do youtube? its just flash.... which is one of the simplest forms of animation on the web

Flash isn't a form of animation; it's an interpreter which mostly decodes video itself. The video can be in a number of other codecs, but because Flash generally doesn't have any sort of heavy video playback optimization or offload to video hardware (except on certain brand new Mac video chips), it's dreadfully inefficient. Obviously Quicktime is much more optimized to play video.

#34 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 - 06:46

I also don't think there was a question of youtube on the G5. I watch youtube and hulu on our G5s at work all the time, the question was NetFlix.

Also, youtube, even on x86 PCs with Windows (where Flash works best) Flash is a pretty horsepower-intensive way to deliver content, and the h.264 encoding most flash videos you is also faairly horsepower intensive.

As an update on this particular concept of "Cory gets a new computer this year" -- I've decided to go ahead and skip the G5 and go for a new x86 machine for virtualization tasks. Probably more details about that later on in the lounge.