It's still not fast enough to do maya rendering.. and macs have a bad weakness at any kind of 3d rendering: Some CELERONS will beat dual g5s at it I imagine.
And even if not, you can get more performance out of a machine for half the cost. "SWEET" machines run $1200.
"ultimate" computers, complete with nice brushed aluminum case, dual opteron processors, and whatnot run $2000-2500.. closer to the range of the G5 but in SOME cases a LOT more powerful.
Not to mention that even the $1200 machine will have top end everything. Nice high quality motherboard, radeon 9800, solid athlon or p4 processor, superdrive, solid aluminum case, good power supply, good fans and even a few 'top end' PC motherboards have fan control systems similar to what macs have.
The ONLY disadvantage on the PC Side is you EITHER run windows or BSD/linux/unix. In essence, you can't enjoy wolfenstein at 500fps on the same machine that hosts an IRC server, decent webserver with many vhosts, and is running a KDE compile in the background at the same time... same machine, etc.
That's one of the few edges OS X has. Sadly, microsoft's only way of survival is to be proprietary.
Of course, I could sell my (worth $1100) g4 dual 800 right now, get a good athlon 2500-2700, nice case, some parts to retrofit my other PC to be a server (just a new powersupply and hard drive.. the suckers are noisy), and I'd have a much nicer setup.
But do I want it? Not really. I admit though, my g4 is extremely loud and I hate that part. It also lacks a radeon 9800, lacks SATA, lacks a faster superdrive, lacks a 533mhz or 800mhz bus, oh geez I can go on.
Point said. It'd cost me maybe $300 at most to do this 'switch' and get a more powerful machine. If I sold my g4 and got a G5, it'd cost about (to be fair the 1.8ghz g5 == 2500 athlon) $1400.
Same performance, just a little less elegant. Truth be told I'm afraid the mac lost in that case, but my mom won't let me sell my g4 anyway so I'll enjoy it
it was, and still is, a totally awesome machine.
On the flipside, albeit my PC being annoyingly loud (louder then the already loud g4), it's a nice little machine fast enough to play my 'oldschool' games, and all I wish I could afford is a DVI converter for my cinema display + dvi switchbox so I could use that awesome monitor with both my computers ;D
Too bad that's too expensive.
And even if not, you can get more performance out of a machine for half the cost. "SWEET" machines run $1200.
"ultimate" computers, complete with nice brushed aluminum case, dual opteron processors, and whatnot run $2000-2500.. closer to the range of the G5 but in SOME cases a LOT more powerful.
Not to mention that even the $1200 machine will have top end everything. Nice high quality motherboard, radeon 9800, solid athlon or p4 processor, superdrive, solid aluminum case, good power supply, good fans and even a few 'top end' PC motherboards have fan control systems similar to what macs have.
The ONLY disadvantage on the PC Side is you EITHER run windows or BSD/linux/unix. In essence, you can't enjoy wolfenstein at 500fps on the same machine that hosts an IRC server, decent webserver with many vhosts, and is running a KDE compile in the background at the same time... same machine, etc.
That's one of the few edges OS X has. Sadly, microsoft's only way of survival is to be proprietary.
Of course, I could sell my (worth $1100) g4 dual 800 right now, get a good athlon 2500-2700, nice case, some parts to retrofit my other PC to be a server (just a new powersupply and hard drive.. the suckers are noisy), and I'd have a much nicer setup.
But do I want it? Not really. I admit though, my g4 is extremely loud and I hate that part. It also lacks a radeon 9800, lacks SATA, lacks a faster superdrive, lacks a 533mhz or 800mhz bus, oh geez I can go on.
Point said. It'd cost me maybe $300 at most to do this 'switch' and get a more powerful machine. If I sold my g4 and got a G5, it'd cost about (to be fair the 1.8ghz g5 == 2500 athlon) $1400.
Same performance, just a little less elegant. Truth be told I'm afraid the mac lost in that case, but my mom won't let me sell my g4 anyway so I'll enjoy it
it was, and still is, a totally awesome machine.On the flipside, albeit my PC being annoyingly loud (louder then the already loud g4), it's a nice little machine fast enough to play my 'oldschool' games, and all I wish I could afford is a DVI converter for my cinema display + dvi switchbox so I could use that awesome monitor with both my computers ;D
Too bad that's too expensive.