![]() ![]() (On that note, why are keyboards without the stupid, useless "windows" & "macro" keys completely extinct these days? Nobody used or wanted those keys, ever. Full-size 'ergonomic' keyboard with a large-DIN AT connector. ![]() Xjas wrote:Here's another one of my oddball finds. I understand the old ones are probably mostly long gone, but why can't one of the retro-minded manufacturers make a new one? I don't want a cutesy penguin or something else there either, I simply don't want a key in that location! Argh!) xjas Posts: 184 Joined: Sun 6:10 pm Location: A long way away from central Auckland ![]() Maybe this was used in a garage?) Was priced $3.00 at a nearby op shop but I walked in on "half-price *everything* day" so $1.50 it was. Surprisingly not-gross by used keyboard standards, aside from the thumb smudge on the space bar (which I suspect is brake dust. I don't remember when the 'ergonomic' design got popular but pretty sure full-AT connectors were well on their way out by the time win95 rolled around. No make or manufacturing date on it anywhere but it has the dumb "windows" keys so must be mid~late '90s if not newer. Maybe we're running up against the limits of how powerful a full-featured desktop workstation *needs* to be. I guess the equivalent today are mobiles which have gone apesh*t crazy in the same timespan. Doesn't it seem like things have slowed down? Yeah I'm not gonna pretend that 2 cores of Intel I5 wouldn't blow away 2 cores of PowerPC or that 4~8GB of RAM was remotely common for a workstation in 2005, but I remember the ridiculous arms race around the turn of the century when we went from 166MHz and 32MB of RAM to GHz+, SMP, 64-bit instructions and 512MB in the span of like two years. Intel HD4000 PCIe Radeon 9600 AGP GeForce 6600 PCIe here's a quick comparo:Ĭode: Select all Macbook Pro G5 tower 1 G5 tower 2Ģ.5GHz i5 x 4 cores 2.0 GHz G5 x 2 CPUs 2.3 GHz G5 x 2 coresĥ12MB video RAM 256MB video RAM 256MB video RAM Was thinking how computers seem to have stagnated. It'll replace my clunky homebuilt Linux box for audio recording.īTW here's my salvaged quintuple-head setup in my office, for the curious -ĮDIT: just chiming back in after working with the G5s some more. I was so happy with how well I got it set up I just cloned the drive to use in the 2.3DP at home. The only thing missing is an equivalent to XtraFinder or a file manager that doesn't suck (can somebody PLEASE port KDE Dolphin to OSXPPC? PLEEEEEASE?) - open to suggestions here. You could tell me this thing was built last month and I'd believe you. Homebrew (actually a fork called Tigerbrew) works great for Unix-like stuff. Finding a working download for Visor, the PPC-supporting predecessor of my favorite drop down terminal, was tricky, and getting Python up to date was a pain as it is on *any* OSX (in fact I think I've figured out what's wrong with my Macbook now that I got it running on this.) Dusted the cobwebs off my free Apple Developer account which gave me the last version of Xcode for Leopard (3.1.4) along with gcc/make/etc. Loaded my usual suite of apps still lots of great progs kicking around for the PPC. Even the pokey 5400RPM laptop drive doesn't slow it down too much. Fortunately I got mine off a classifieds site for $10.Īnyway I threw it on the G5 and it works great! Set up everything the way I like and it runs just like a modern Mac, plenty of power and really feels like a solid machine. I have absolutely no way to describe my lack of comprehension of this pricing scheme. Snow Leopard will cost you $19 US and Leopard will run $159. (Nice holographic box cover art, I hope whoever was responsible for this got a raise.)Īs aside, you can still get Leopard (10.5 - the last version that will run on PPC) and Snow Leopard (10.6) straight from Apple. I wanted that second display and the extra vram! I had a better, 256MB Radeon with 2xDVI but it suffered from the dreaded black screen of death with the Linux driver. Incidentally I was using a 128MB Radeon 9600 with an ADC (Apple sort-of proprietary) connector for the 'second head'. It was also sitting right next to a much more powerful machine running Fedora so was kind of pointless as I'd set them up pretty much the same. Since the desktop I installed (Cinnamon) relies heavily on the GPU it wasn't overly pleasant to use. The Linux drivers for old Radeon cards are notoriously bad and compounded with the limited development resources of Debian PPC meant all kinds of issues. Dicking around with the 2.0DP (in my office.) I wasn't happy with Debian and it was mostly ATI's fault. ![]()
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