OT-Ditching the G5 -need great specs for HD Mac Pro

After the RAID crash, the G5 is going away.

Question 1:
Do older G5s have any resale value?
(probably not)

Question 2:

A new HD setup:

From the G5, the aja io can stay, this I know.
But the Kona 2 will have to go bye-bye.

Other than that, what is great system for HD to spec to replace the G5

Ram
HD system OSX
HD external (raid 10????)
Capture Cards (Kona 3?)



Any help would be appreciated from you helpful souls!

i run a macpro quad 3.0 with 10g ram. 2 Caldigit esata drives 1TB tb per/ 3.75TB internal / BM intensity for monitoring (wish for the MXO2) / Running fcs2, 2 3D apps and production premium cs4.

It runs like butter with 1080 anything.

The old ppc is not worthless. even if its a dual 1.8 like mine. You can still edit in fcp6 and Adobe cs3 or earlier. It will run 3d apps and can be a encode and conversion station.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"

What do you want to do on the Mac Pro?



www.strypesinpost.com

We have a Sony Cinealta HD Camera,
so Id like to run a HD ingest, regardless if it is
going to HD or SD.

Of late everything is XDCAM with graphics from
Motion and sometimes 3ds Max.

Need something with lots of horsepower,
fast rendering, and a quicker solution that the G5.






strypes Wrote:
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> What do you want to do on the Mac Pro?

IMHO

The new 2.93 8core w/16g ram is quite the monster, but for the money, you could get the 2.66 w/16gig ram.

i just started using samsumg F1's, and they are quick, quiet and not a lot of money. Any 4bay Caldigit would be plenty of storage. (samsung drives)

If you can get a Kona 3 that would be optimal. I have read that they are a bit more than what's necessary, but i never see that as a bad thing.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"

There might -- MIGHT -- be new Mac Pros coming out soon. Only because there's new Intel chips out and the line is due for a refresh. But if you need something now then don't wait, just get the best model you can afford (and buy tons of RAM from a 3rd party, it's cheaper than Apple).

JK

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SCQT! Self-contained QuickTime ? pass it on!

Yes, a 12 or 16 true core mac would be awesome.
I don't know if this old G5 can make it though.
Everything in technology has changed such as

G5 changes to Mac Pro
PCIX is replaced with PCIe (wiping out the thought of using the Kona 2 in a new machine)
the Huge System Array (so in vogue in 04') is replaced with CalDigit or GSpeed
Tiger becomes Leopard then gets snowed on!

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John K Wrote:
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> There might -- MIGHT -- be new Mac Pros coming out
> soon. Only because there's new Intel chips out and
> the line is due for a refresh. But if you need
> something now then don't wait, just get the best
> model you can afford (and buy tons of RAM from a
> 3rd party, it's cheaper than Apple).
>
> JK

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mark@avolution
Tiger becomes Leopard then gets snowed on!

Thats funny.


I hope that they can utilize some of the cuda technology in the next version of the Macpro. And in the next os give us a mac based duplicate file software that will be able to identify files by more than just name.

I will keep fcs2 on my g5 even as we move to fcs5. It still can do some edit work and maybe be a server.

2012, it will become my sons computer as it is still good for academic uses. web surfing, iwork, and so on.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"