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The iMac G5... at the door
John Perkins, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Hawesville | KY | USA | Posted: 9:49 AM on 09.26.04 |
->> My iMac G5 arrived Friday and all I can say is that it is worth every penny. My configuration is the 17" Combo drive 1.6GHz. As of right now there is only 512MB of RAM in it (hoping to upgrade to 1gig soon) but it outperforms my G4 eMac that had 768MB in it. Even though the system bus is slower and the processor weaker than the G5 towers, a direct comparison between a dual G5 tower with 2gigs of RAM revealed there is little performance difference. The 17" widescreen is beautifully crystal clear. The fans in it are surprisingly quiet in a silent room but when Photoshop starts chugging away at a processor intense tasks, you will hear them, but only slightly.
For a G5 Mac, it’s a steal. |
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Brady Creel, Photographer
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College Station | TX | USA | Posted: 4:19 PM on 09.26.04 |
| ->> Keep us updated. Those look like great machines. |
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Jon Ramirez, Photographer
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Red Bank | NJ | | Posted: 10:08 AM on 09.27.04 |
| ->> Curious, what is the current price for the Imac G5 right now.....? |
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Brian Light, Photographer
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Pennsville | NJ | USA | Posted: 10:20 AM on 09.27.04 |
| ->> Jon... They start a1 $1299.00 for the base 1.6 Ghz 17" screen then a 1.8 Ghz 17" for 1499.00 and the top end 1.8 Ghz with a 20" screen is $1899.00. All models have 256 Megs of RAM and the two 17" models have 80 gig drives and the 20" model has 160 gig HD and all have the 1.6 Ghz has a Combo Drive and the two upper models have Superdrives. |
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Jon Ramirez, Photographer
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Red Bank | NJ | | Posted: 10:26 AM on 09.27.04 |
->> Thanks for the info Brian.......
Jon.. |
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Nick Doan, Photographer, Assistant
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Scottsdale | AZ | USA | Posted: 12:30 AM on 09.29.04 |
->> Well, I picked up the 20" iMac G5 today. And, so far it's been quite a transition. (I've been using a PC desktop and laptop for so long, I've forgotten everything Mac-realted.)
The 20" has a beautiful screen, and the sales people at the Mac store convinced me it was a better monitor than the 17". According to what they were telling me, the 17" monitor is very similar to the laptop screens; and when you view them from an angle, the tend to be harder to see and some colors seem to change. The 20" screen suffers from this less. (In fact it looks pretty good from all the viewing angles so far.)
I can't compare the speeds coming from the PC world, but I expect I'll shoot a couple of thousand frames over the weekend, and then, we'll see is PS CS and Photo Mechanic run any faster than they did on my PC. (it has to go faster than my SONY laptop...the laptop took almost an hour to genereate 1000 previews in PS CS' File browser.)
If anybody has any advice for somebody transitioning to the MAC from the PC, please let me know. So far, the only software I'm planning on installing is PS CS, Photo Mechanic, and MS Office. And, I believe I need to get Transmit. Anything else you Mac gurus think that a Mac newbie can't live without? I'm already thinking about upgrading the mous eand keyboard. The one that comes with the iMac seems difficult to type on, and I'm not terribly impressed with the mouse.
Thanks for the input! |
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Baron Sekiya, Photographer
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Kailua-Kona | HI | USA | Posted: 4:14 AM on 09.29.04 |
->> I like my Evoluent VerticalMouse, got rid of any carpal tunnel stress on my wrist, plus having the extra buttons on the mouse are great for using Expose. I use it every day on my PowerBook. A Monaco Optix is nice for color calibration.
$oftware:
Roxio Toast Titanium (lets you burn like a pro to make Mac, Windows or UDF discs)
CodeTek Virtual Desktop (gives you multiple workspaces (it's like having multiple 20" monitors)
SpellCatcher X (lets you spellcheck in the Photshop File Info captions and anywhere else like in Photo Mechanic)
iKey (macro program to automate keypresses and more)
Hour World (a nice world time clock app
Debarrelizer (takes out barrel distortion or pincushion in Photoshop)
Disk Warrior (just in case)
Freeware:
BB Edit Lite (for text files)
Stuffit Expander (to uncompress a variety of file archive formats)
MacStumbler (if you ever have to deal with Wi-Fi access points)
iPod Browser (lets you import songs off an iPod into iTunes)
Fishpad (a nice little notepad)
Fire (chat client that supports AIM/Yahoo/ICQ/MSN)
Firefox or Camino (nice speedy browsers)
Pizza Cooker (a cool little timer)
You should be able to find all this software at: http://www.versiontracker.com
And the last piece of hardware:
Get a MIDI keyboard with interface or an electric guitar and plug 'em into your iMac then crank-up Garage Band and rock on. |
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Nelson Antoine, Photographer, Student/Intern
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São Paulo | SP | Brazil | Posted: 4:40 AM on 09.29.04 |
->> if you want some ftp-free program nick, here are two good choices, that i use:
RBrowserLite
CyberDuck |
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Matt Cashore, Photographer
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Nick Doan, Photographer, Assistant
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Scottsdale | AZ | USA | Posted: 1:11 PM on 09.29.04 |
->> Thanks for the advice everyone.
I think it's going to take me a couple of weeks to get used to everything. |
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