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Good PowerMac for an engineering student
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Purdue University
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So after three years with my current machine (P4 2.2Ghz running Fedora 3), I'm looking to upgrade to a PowerMac. Regarding budget, I'm looking to go for around $1500. I would like a dual processor machine. It's use would be the typical writing papers, email, etc... with some Matlab and C development as well. Other programs would be stuff like SETI@home, roms, and Quake through X11. For the total system, I'm looking at just the computer. I already have some monitors and a USB mouse and keyboard. So what kind of machine should I look into getting? As far as purchase time, I'm thinking about this time next year.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: 33-37-22.350N / 111-54-37.920W
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get a used dual 1.8.... that's gonna be your best bet for $1500... That's kind of a limited budget for a PM... even the new single 1.8 (with the slower bus, and only 256MB RAM and a crap graphics card is $1500)...
Being a student, you can probably get a brand new dual 1.8 for $1799 (save a little harder).. but the key to a PM having some power is RAM... and you'll need to budget at least $400 for another 2 GIG's of RAM... then you'll have a great engineering rig.
good luck.
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Advice for engineering student:
Any G5 Mac will be fine, but bring your PC to the dorm too. Remove the network card from the PC (a spayed PC is a happy PC).
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Join Date: May 2003
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dual 1.8 is what i would purchase, with a 9600xt upgrade and as much ram as you can buy. 
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