What Ive read is that sure, the lifetime might be shorter, but that either way current (that is to say, improved) SSD drives will still last longer than most people will hang onto them before upgrading, for example if a spinning disk would have lasted 12 years and an SSD only lasts 6 years under the same use, in the real world there is actually no difference, since either way you would have upgraded out of it after 3 years anyway.
Handbrake For Power G5 Mac G5 AsI just got a powermac G5 as a gift from a coworker, the box is in good condition and should work ok (I still have to turn it on yet, too much work, but will do soon).Thinking about moving forward in my photography I would like to use this old mac to move into a raw workflow, and will like your advice about what to do. My concerns are, we all know this is and old box and apple and most app developers have dropped or will drop support for the G5 very soon, so what version of photoshop should I look into and what was the best either aperture or lightrooom or whatever workflow tool in the time of the G5s, what versions I know there has to be good tools I could use in this old box, but I have not been involved in the apple world since the time of the g3 8500 that was the last mac I used about 13 years ago, I need the help of those who have. If it metters, the raw files I would like to use come from a D300, and the mac has 2GB of ram, I could try to get more if its worth it and the prices are within reason. I used Lightroom; I dont remember the version, probably 1.x, or, maybe 2. As far as Aperture, make sure your video card can handle it, I mean the older version of it. I will be upgrading, but every time I get the money saved, I see another lens I want. This, BTW, is my first post with my new 2011 Macbook Pro with Lion installed. I am still running both machines so I can say the G5 will do you fine. I am running CS4 photoshop which has RAW converter and Bridge. The are dual binary so it can be installed on new and old Macs. Only caution is that, if you are going to use Appleworks as your main document application with the G5, you will be stuck if you upgrade later to an intel based Mac. Its taking me forever to convert all my (many hundreds) of Appleworks docs to the latest Microsoft Word app on the MBP. BUT, I am looking at the next generation MacBookPro 17; Hi res non glare screen as my Christmas present to myself. Aperture 3 is Intel-only, but Aperture 2 is supposed to run on at least some PowerMacs G5s. Other than that the thing works like a charm, fast and responsive, and I think that once I can get it upgraded to leopard this thing is going to be great for my needs. Ive been mostly a linux user for a very long time, since 1998 or so when I left the powerpc 8500 I had, and it took me a while to get used to the mac (took me a while to find the terminal.), but by the end of the day I was having a blast, apple did a very good job with this OSX. I have to do is get my friend to let go of the 30 monitor that came with it, haha). If you start throwing 18-24 megapixel raw files at it, its probably going to bog down significantly. If it does seem to slow down, the only other reasonable thing that can be done to improve performance other than maxing the RAM is to make sure youve got the fastest hard drives you can afford in there, and if youre going to use Photoshop a lot make sure there is a second hard drive in the case set as a Photoshop scratch drive. Otherwise files will keep banging their heads on the 2GB RAM ceiling, since 2GB is almost nothing these days, and the scratch drive will at least give Photoshop a faster place to swap out to after running out of RAM. Not saying you cant use it, but definitely there are limits to what you can throw at it and still keep your sanity. When I added 2GB of RAM into my G5 eight years ago, I thought it would be over what I would ever need and it has been only recently that it seemed to bog down. From what the OP was saying, he wont be doing tons of time intensive large file sized stuff requiring maxed out RAM and the machine isnt going to be used for more than a couple of years anyway. I think where the maxed out RAM is really important is with the new SSD drives because of the read write cycles on these drives can shorten there lifetimes so lessening that with RAM is a good idea.
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