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    Silly G5 Processor question...

    The PowerPC instruction set architecture has always been extensible to 64 bits. The G5 (aka IBM PowerPC 970/970FX) is just the first production PPC to make use of that fact. That being said, 32 bit instructions are still valid and execute on the G5 - so it natively supports both. The G5...
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    Advice on Mac G4 DP 450...

    Well... I'm posting this from the G4. It's awesome so far. He threw in a bunch of goodies too (Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u monitor, firewire CD-RW, firewire scanner with transparency adapter, USB Zip 250, speakers, a bunch of software (including Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 5.5).
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    Advice on Mac G4 DP 450...

    Well, I told him I'll buy it. I might get it tomorrow. I'll see what software he has with it, but I think I will order a copy of Final Cut Express HD off of the Apple educational site. Anybody know what it would take to hook my Korg AG-10 midi synthesizer up to the G4? It has a serial...
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    Advice on Mac G4 DP 450...

    Thanks! $69.00 for Panther - that seems reasonable enough.
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    Advice on Mac G4 DP 450...

    Just thought of another question: Would you rather have the G4 DP 450 or a new Mac mini?
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    Advice on Mac G4 DP 450...

    Thanks for the replies. I'm already sold on Mac OS X (and the PPC in general), even on my little Bondi blue iMac it is so slick and stable. On iTunes I can rip a CD and MP3 compress while playing back another MP3 without a hiccup. My 2GHz P4 has trouble doing that. The P4 has made for a...
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    Advice on Mac G4 DP 450...

    Greetings all, this is my first post here. A friend of my father-in-law got a G5 and is selling their Dual G4 450, 256MB RAM along with a Mitsubishi monitor (19" CRT?), a scanner and software? Unfortunately I can't get all the details (size of hard drive, what software, what scanner, etc...)...
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