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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    They are a thing to behold. I can almost swing a couple of Cinema Display HD 23"ers I found on Craigslist, but they are double my $500 monitor budget alone. We'll see. I think I'm set on a G5 now to tide me over for a year- glad we were all able to talk this out. :P Thanks for everyone's...
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    Bingo- and as long as that's a year from now, or whenever pre-owned Mac Pros become more affordable, that's all that my expectations are set for. Surely a G5 with dual procs and at least a few gigs of memory can run Leopard, CS3, iTunes, and Firefox... if not, how did they even sell in the first...
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    TheStu and Zaap- you're both correct, no worries and thanks for the support. I'm still trying to decide which path to take. Current dual 2.3GHz G5s with at least 4GB of RAM are going for about $900 shipped on eBay, which is the max I'm willing to spend (since the wife will also be stealing my...
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    Thanks for the last two comments again. I stayed up well past my bedtime investigating the OSx86 links, and while actually surprised at how much PC hardware components will run Leopard, it was still too much of a pricey hodge-podge for this old AMD nut who would still have trouble building an...
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    Alright, you last two guys have me thinking in that direction now. I'm willing to follow directions if they work, and it sounds like quite the userbase is getting established here... alright I'm stoked. I'll look at this more when I get home shortly and start pricing out the wares. Thanks!
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    Good point- thanks for noting that. Any components in particular? I'm plenty savvy enough to replace anything when necessary, but a high frequency thereof could be a turn-off. I honestly just need a G5 to last me about a year so I can get introduced and used to OS-X, before picking up a proper...
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    Ok thanks- that's essentially what I wanted to make sure of. That it was going to be liveable for the relatively small-demand stuff I do.
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    Indeed, but would any Power Mac G5 tower, upgraded to Leopard, serve my needs or are they too old and not worth touching? My $800 tower budget is the crux of the matter here.
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    Halp, I'm slipping! Already looking at a 'newer' xw6200 model with dual 3.6 Xeons, 4GB, and perhaps even giving Vista a go... sleeping on all of this, will check back in tomorrow.
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    Yeah, definitely checked the used Mac Pros out, but none of them are coming in anywhere near a grand yet. That will be the one to get when they depreciate a bit more though. Ok, I was thinking 'Hackintosh' was simply running Boot Camp on an Intel Mac to get Windows on there as well, but now I...
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    Thanks for the response- I'm looking at a dual CPU, likely not dual-core, 2.5. An iMac 'Hackintosh' is attractive, but I really want my classic setup- a tower with dual 20-something LCDs. I can always duck into my wife's office next door in our home to go back to 'my' Windows workstation if I...
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    iPhone (3G) as modem?

    Nada- wouldn't make any business sense at current iPhone data rates for AT&T. But yes, if you can Jailbreak the thing, you can tether it as a wireless modem. HowardForums.com has at least one good thread on it describing how to pull it off, in their Apple forum- just saw it today, and I think...
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    Ok, how bad would a used dual ~2.5GHz Power Mac G5 suck?

    My wife's and my wedding photographers, who are rated among the top 10 in the country, are uber-Mac Pro top of the line everything-Apple folks who have built studios in their home to house their machines, say to not make my first foray into Macs with a used G5 off eBay because "they suck and...
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    Good idea/bad idea? 7600GT HSF transplant to 8600GT board

    UPDATE: Ehm... so I restarted my workstation this evening after installing the latest version of Acrobat Reader, and it wouldn't boot back up. The power LED blinked red and beeped 4 times... Googled... HP basically says 'have fun finding the culprit' with that combo. Surprise surprise, it's...
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    Good idea/bad idea? 7600GT HSF transplant to 8600GT board

    Yep, two-wire power- everything is surprisingly similar. So I decided to go ahead and take a crack at it by chance. Well, the HSF off the 7600GT isn't rounded off enough at the NE corner to get around a capacitor on the 8600GT... crap! But wait, the fans themselves look to be about the same...
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    Good idea/bad idea? 7600GT HSF transplant to 8600GT board

    Both are XFX units, both have similar-if-not-identical copper-based HSFs on similar-if-not-identical boards. The fan on my capacitor-blown-prompting-new-GPU-purchase 7600GT was nice on the ears, but the 8600GT's fan is a bit too much for my non-gaming arse. Was just looking for a cheap dual-DVI...
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    China's air is too polluted for olympics ?

    But I thought if you didn't polute, the Politburo would come come kill your daughters? Or something like that. :P edit: dammit, I haven't been inside ATOT since 2002 on a different screen name. maybe it's the vodka. why do I slip back now? why! why?!
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    $100 Best Buy gift card, want a PCI HDTV tuner/DVR, tell me what to get

    Anyone? Did I get the wrong forum?
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    $100 Best Buy gift card, want a PCI HDTV tuner/DVR, tell me what to get

    I guess the title and summary... sums it up. I just tried an ATI TV Wonder basic PCI card with abismally poor results with the ATI software and a 3rd party application (D-interlacer?) that also did not get the card to work despite there being good signal to it. Buggy drivers too regardless I...
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    New Moderator Selection

    AVOID THE CULT OF OBAMA!!! Oh sorry, gut reaction. Good luck to all.
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    Sprint/Verizon EVDO?

    AT&T HSUPA FTW. Caveat- just don't go over 5GB of bandwidth per month. That's unfortunately new this week (unl. data no longer available on aircards).
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    Reliable VOIP

    Been thinking about this too- just got married and my wife and I are iPhone-only. Parents complain that when they call, they only have our cells and not a home phone. Plus, my wife is a doctor and occassionally an important call will come in that she will not hear on her iPhone ringtone...
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    Will DD-WRT fix dropped connectivity every 2 days on my WRT54G?

    Thanks, Jack. :) Well, it turns out I've got v.5 of this model which nobody supports 3rd party yet and I've checked them all (Tomato, DD-WRT, FreeWRT, HyperWRT (official), HyperWRT Thibor, OpenWRT, Tarifa and X-Wrt ). Now it's time to decide whether my wife and I have the patience to unplug...
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    Will DD-WRT fix dropped connectivity every 2 days on my WRT54G?

    Thanks for all the responses, folks- I hadn't even heard of Tomato yet. Sounds like there's a chance, but I'm at work and don't know my router version off-hand. Will check it out tonight and play around with this more over the weekend. Jack- I'd love to have a nice Cisco SoHo rig for a few...
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    Will DD-WRT fix dropped connectivity every 2 days on my WRT54G?

    Yeah, so the title and summary... sums it up pretty well. Will a DD-WRT (?) upgrade solve this problem or do I have a hardware issue? I bought this unit a few months ago as a refurb from Fry's. Thanks in advance for your advice.
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    Can you cleanly take a Western Digital MyBook external drive enclosure apart?

    I do have another enclosure already, but it's PATA, and I like the design and look of the MyBooks better.
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    Can you cleanly take a Western Digital MyBook external drive enclosure apart?

    Looking to pick up a 160GB MyBook on eBay for about fifty bucks and replace the stock drive with a Seagate 400GB SATA unit. Why? Because I've lost my faith in WD units though I was fanboy with them at one time, and I hate the look of the new Seagate external units. Can the MyBooks be safely...
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    Last chance for my WRT54G refurb- drops wireless connectivity every 2 days

    Yep, next option is to go pick up a highly reviewed and regarded D-Link draft-n router (forgot the model name obviously) that I just stumbled upon yesterday at Best Buy for about $60. I used to be a D-Link guy with all my equipment, but the Cisco affiliation and cool blue and gray cases of...
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    Last chance for my WRT54G refurb- drops wireless connectivity every 2 days

    I'm getting awfully darn tired of pulling the attic ladder down to scale into the frigid summit of my home where I keep my Motorola Surfboard cable modem and my 3-month old WRT54G refurb router I got at Fry's for $29.99. Every two days all of my wireless devices lose connectivity and I have to...
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    10Mbit Internet connection halves once cable modem plugged into wireless-G router

    Great point- thanks for the clarity. At the moment there are only two PCs and two iPhones associated, but a couple walls and one floor. I think I'm going to look into wiring my house for Ethernet instead...
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    10Mbit Internet connection halves once cable modem plugged into wireless-G router

    Alright, I'll dink with your suggestions- thanks. Is this normal for wireless in general or because I have a G router? Any gain on the Internet side with a wireless N router? I was assuming that the 11Mbits advertised for B and 54Mbits for G were reasonable expectation rates like 10/100/1000...
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    10Mbit Internet connection halves once cable modem plugged into wireless-G router

    Got a couple things straightened out with modem support at Time Warner Cable over the phone this morning and am getting the 10Mbit/1Mbit cable connection I'm paying for. Awesome. Now that the modem is rocking out, time to toss the patch cable and get my Linksys WRT54G back into the picture...
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    XP Pro file folders refuse to disable Read-only mode?

    This one is really throwing me for a loop, but hopefully it's a quick and easy attributes or policy edit that you guys know of that I obviously do not. This is XP Pro SP2, just trying to enable full read-write (no Read-only) mode so I can rotate images with a Windows powertoy. Images will not...
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    HP Xeon workstation runs way too slow for its specs...

    I have an HP XW6200 workstation with a single dual-core 2.8GHz Xeon processor and 1GB of stock Micron registered DDR. I recently added another set of Micron registered DDR for 2GB total populating all 4 DIMM slots to try and solve this issue, but the system was actually noticeably slower! I took...
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    Favorites folders will not auto-collapse in IE7 when expanding other folders

    So yeah, every time I expand a second folder in my IE7 favorites list, the first one does not auto-collapse and stays open. This gets quite messy after opening a few other folders. I've installed IE7 on several computers and noticed this on a few installs. I can't figure out why it does this...
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    Incredibly slow latency issue in connecting to WinXP shared drive on my WLAN

    D'oh! Wrong syntax- not sure what I was thinking. Thanks. Well I'm not sure how to fix it either, but it miraculously fixed itself sometime this afternoon. Not sure why it would have been so slow for the last two weeks and then clear up all of the sudden (of course after I post here to find a...
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    Incredibly slow latency issue in connecting to WinXP shared drive on my WLAN

    Bump! :( Clarification: Internet connection is quick and normal- LAN connections are slow and abnormal.
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    Google rolls out new service - TiSP

    I thought this was awesome when I stumbled upon it- try to register for it and gives you a cute 404 type page with other 'failed' April Fool's funnies. Like 'Google Romance (beta)'. Someone had to have gotten the idea from a Dilbert comic I have posted in my cube at work. Pointy haired boss...
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    Incredibly slow latency issue in connecting to WinXP shared drive on my WLAN

    FWIW, I did not have this problem until I bought a new computer (HP XW6200) and installed a fresh copy of WinXP SP2 on it, just as I did with my makeshift-NAS PC running a shared drive. I've got a 54G WLAN throughout on a standard 2WIRE/AT&T Yahoo! DSL router. Connecting is never an issue-...