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Your PowerMac Usage Thread.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2004
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What do you use all that PowerMac power for? Most of us have posted our setups in the PowerMac Picture Thread. Here post what you do with your dream machine.
Make sure you post your specs so we all get an idea how much power you got to do the things you do. Be sure to post pictures if you setup needs an explaination (music setup). Tell us what software you run on that hardware aswell.
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DP 2.0ghz/ 2.5gb ram/ 160gb/9660 128mb
Mostly use this machine for some graphic work in Photoshop CS and also web design with PS and Dreamweaver. Lots of photo storage like most people with iphoto and the odd Movie in iMovie or FCP.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Nashville, TN
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Ok, here goes.
System is a Rev.A DP2.0 w/ 160GB + 250GB HDs, 2GB of RAM and a Radeon 9800/128
Its mainly used for photoshop, video and everything else (mostly large photo things).
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Iowa State Univesity
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I've got a few:
B&W G3/450/13GB/640MB/Tiger: gave to GF, she uses it for schoolwork, internet, etc.
Beige G3/G4 450/6GB+6GB+4GB/384MB/Tiger: server/whatever. currently running BOINC for one of the TeamMacNN groups
Beige G3/300/4Gb/92MB/9.2: exists only to act as a bridge to my powerbook 5300cs picture frame
Beige G3/413/4GB/192/Jaguar: Gave to a friend here at school for schoolwork/general internet stuff
And I've got a couple spare Beige G3's for parts, along with some NuBus models at home that aren't used anymore.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: The Sar Chasm
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At work, I use a Dual 1.0 G4 for Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, and general administrative tasks, like managing our email domain, archiving artwork, etc.
At home, I have a dual 2.0 G5 that I use for Logic (serious mixing/recording projects), Garage Band (goofing around, sketching rehearsing), Photoshop (scanning huge library of 35mm slides) InDesign, iPhoto (family digi-snapshots), GoLive, mail, etc. I especially like the horsepower for Logic, which was maxing out my old G4, and having lots of RAM for big PS files.
I use my Powerbook to keep a huge to-do list in Omni Outliner Pro, and for remote recording, and surfing on the couch.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Dual 2.3 / 2.5GB ram / 250GB / ATI9600.
Photoshop, some video recording and editing, creating DVDs etc...
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Training video editing most of the time....this takes most of my time,together with watching a lot of movies.
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MacBook Pro 2.4 17 HD
ACD 23
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Dec 2005
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DP 2.3 ghz, 2gb ram, 250gb HD, GeForce 7800 GT (very loud!! )
InDesign, Illustrator, Microsoft Word, web surfing and World of Warcraft 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Dual 2.5 GHz; 2.5 GB RAM
LightWave3D, Vue5 Infinite, Final Cut Studio, Photoshop, iTunes, iChat, Firefox...
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"In a world without walls or fences, what need have we for windows or gates?"
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Australia
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See my signature for specs.
Funnily enough. I do nothing really demanding. In a year its 75% business productivity (Word/Excel & Safari/Entourage) and then the rest is Photos and video.
I have used powermacs for years. At one stage I had a great Protools set up on a single G4, then when I got out of my band I moved on and got the Dual G5 but use it mainly for the purposes of my law degree.
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Apple Powermac G5: Dual 1.85GHz | 80Gb System | 3Gb Ram | GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL | BT | Airport | Apple 30" Cinema HD Display Apple Powerbook AL G4: 12" | 1.5Ghz | 60b System | 1.25Gb Ram | Airport | BT Other: Airport Express | Airport Extreme | TiG4 PB 800Mhz | 20" iMac G5 w/ built in iSight | Swivel Screen iMac G4 800Mhz | iPod Mini | iPod Nano | Maxtor One Touch 250GB | Sony Ericsson T630
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: New York City
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PowerMac MDD, Dual 1.42GHz, 2GB RAM, 1TB HD, Radeon 9800 256MB
1. Basic internet stuff
2. Watch movies, shows, etc. (all kinds of wierd formats)
3. Sometimes video format conversions
4. Basic Word stuff
5. MAME
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Dual 1.8 G5, 200 Gig and 160 Gig hard drives, 2 Gigs RAM, Radeon 9600 Pro 128 Mb video card.
I do Web design with Macromedia Studio 8, rip and burn DVDs, word process and wander the Net more than anything else, but iPhoto and iTunes also get their time.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2005
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Quad 2.5GHZ
5GB RAM
250GB + 300GB Internal drives
7800GT Video card
30" ACD
1. Basic internet stuff
2. MSFT Office
3. Itunes, iPhoto, etc..
4. Occasional photoshop, video conversion, iMovie/iDVD
5. Occasional game or two
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: ~/
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Machine:
Dual 2.5GHz G5
3.5GB RAM
300GB + 74GB (Raptor) + 2x160GB Firewire (as a RAID set) HDs
ATI Radeon X800XT
30" Cinema
Main apps (daily or almost daily):
•Keynote 2 (soon to be Keynote 3)
•PowerPoint
•Word + EndNote 8
•Pages (soon to be Pages 2)
•Photoshop Elements 3
•Acrobat 7 Professional
•Osirix
•Toast 7
•ffmpegX
•iPhoto 5 (soon to be iPhoto 6)
•Aperture (for the stuff I shoot in RAW)
•Safari/Mail/iCal/Address Book
•iTunes
•Virtual PC (for Windows Office 2003 mainly)
•Games (working through Stubbs the Zombie currently)
Occasional use:
•iDVD
•Excel
•InDesign CS
•Unison
•Soundtrack Pro (for audio editing)
•iMovie (I have Final Cut Express 2 but never quite learned how to use it)
•Remote Desktop 2
•Nikon Capture 4 & Nikon View 6
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