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troll

3571 posts since 30/1/10

11 Mar 2010 21:25

hang_on_voltaire wrote: If there's nothing actually wrong with it I'm sure you could get it running well again. I have 3 macs older than yours and they all run fine. Have you tried anything to diagnose/rectify the problems you're having? My gf's newish macs was running v slow so I told her to get Onyx and run all the maintenance/cleaning - did the trick…

shego wrote: Slightly pointless post, but my iMac G5 (4 years old) is about to die and i dont have the money to buy a new laptop, even with HE links

it takes fucking ages to load anything, can't stream shit and sounds like a harrier all the time.

Also if your hard drive is full or has less than 20% free space it will run really slowly! Onyx is really good I told my Girlfriend to use it as she had a similar problem as Voltaire's Girlfriend. Also us Monolingual to get rid of language files that you don't need, you'd be surprised at how much is freed up by it! Got's lots of crap on your desktop, tidy that up so you the least amount possible on it, that also helps a little!

andymakesglasses
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19549 posts since 26/1/06

12 Mar 2010 00:06

billhicks wrote: A lot less than you'll see by having a faster cpu and memory

Cheers. Do you have an opinion on the various processors on offer with the iMac? Are the Quad Cores better, simple as that?

shego - free up as much space as possible, back everything up then re-install the OS. Did that with my PowerBook a year ago and it started running so much faster again.

bill

4605 posts since 5/8/09

12 Mar 2010 00:30

Get quad core if you can afford it, I would personally. The C2D will be faster for most apps right now but as more applications are being designed to use multiple cores that will change in the near future. It's the more 'future proof' choice.

Good comparison here: http://gizmodo.com/5407204/benchmarked-the-quad+core-i7-imac-is-super-fast

Will be a massive leap from the G4 powerbook

troll

3571 posts since 30/1/10

12 Mar 2010 00:40

andymakesglasses wrote:

billhicks wrote: A lot less than you'll see by having a faster cpu and memory

Cheers. Do you have an opinion on the various processors on offer with the iMac? Are the Quad Cores better, simple as that?

shego - free up as much space as possible, back everything up then re-install the OS. Did that with my PowerBook a year ago and it started running so much faster again.

To future-proof yourself you should try and get yourself a Mac with the best processor possible, Quad Core is the way to go. Of course pump in as much RAM as you can afford too but don't get it from Apple, try Crucial instead and put in in yourself, it's quite easy!

Upgrade your graphics card at a later date, say when you upgrade to the next version of CS. Programs of this nature won't take advantage of the GPU yet but will do in the future. Unless you're film editing or producing 3D don't worry too much about it.

bill

4605 posts since 5/8/09

12 Mar 2010 00:58

Mac prices seem to have gotten extremely expensive over the last couple years. iMacs used to be great value but now the cheapest iMac is £969, only a couple years ago wasn't the 20" £769 or there abouts? The entry level plastic macbooks used to be £699, now £816.

And £2k for the cheapest Mac Pro.

I could do with a new one before April but the prices are harder to swallow than ever before.

troll

3571 posts since 30/1/10

12 Mar 2010 01:59

billhicks wrote: Mac prices seem to have gotten extremely expensive over the last couple years. iMacs used to be great value but now the cheapest iMac is £969, only a couple years ago wasn't the 20" £769 or there abouts? The entry level plastic macbooks used to be £699, now £816.

And £2k for the cheapest Mac Pro.

I could do with a new one before April but the prices are harder to swallow than ever before.

I agree I just recently got myself a Macbook Pro and MacPro, bloody painful! I can understand why Apple charge a premium over other PC manufacturers and agree to the maxim you pay for what you get but their prices have slowly been creeping up, possibly since the iPhone/iTouch has been out. Even though the iPhone has been an undoubted success maybe the profit margins are a little lower on that line so to make up that short fall they bump it up on the Mac (especially the Mac Pro's) product line which is now one of their smallest sellers even though it's still obviously very profitable, they still want to see a certain percentage, less being sold means higher prices. The problem with that is that they're pricing themselves out of the market. Computers are so much more sophisticated these days that most plebs only need a simple notebook to do what they need. So £816 for a Macbook or £400 for a PC notebook! My girlfriend who is a student struggled to pay for a Macbook and that was with a work discount 3 years ago, if in the same situation now; forget about it!

Mac's will be always more expensive but it is boarding on the silly!

DuffMan

13373 posts since 21/2/07

12 Mar 2010 12:57

In my opinion if you want a desktop pc you're silly to buy a mac, the prices for the hardware you get are apalling. You can even (pretty easily actually) install os x on a pc, so there's little argument left there (also windows 7 is really really good). In terms of laptops I think it's a bit different as the design features etc make more of a regular difference.

Gaz

2455 posts since 20/10/05

12 Mar 2010 20:53

Can anyone on here help me out with a copy of leopard os? I'll paypal some dough for your troubles

Dee

9655 posts since 22/11/07

12 Mar 2010 21:43

do you want the snow leopard upgrade or just leopard?

Gaz

2455 posts since 20/10/05

12 Mar 2010 21:48

I'm actually unsure, i'm a pc guy. It's for an old ibook g4 if that's any use?

Dee

9655 posts since 22/11/07

12 Mar 2010 21:50

normal leopard then, I'll have a look through the drawers for the OS disks and pm you if I can find em.

Hello World
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12043 posts since 7/3/05

12 Mar 2010 21:50

Gaz wrote: I'm actually unsure, i'm a pc guy. It's for an old ibook g4 if that's any use?

snow leopard only works on intel processors, i guess that old mac is power PC so leopard only max

Gaz

2455 posts since 20/10/05

12 Mar 2010 22:53

Thanks guys, appreciated

subfunktion
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2363 posts since 13/5/06

12 Mar 2010 22:57

andymakesglasses wrote: I want to future-proof myself as much as possible.

Not really the job of an iMac.

andymakesglasses
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19549 posts since 26/1/06

13 Mar 2010 00:12

Why?

Charles Winthorpe III
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5474 posts since 29/7/05

15 Mar 2010 01:20

still on the look out for ableton live for mac - any version from 7 upwards as long as it works i'm not bothered.

cant find a working copy anywhere and pretty desperate to get some edits done please.

Dreep

1203 posts since 29/7/08

15 Mar 2010 02:07

billy ray valentine wrote: still on the look out for ableton live for mac - any version from 7 upwards as long as it works i'm not bothered.

cant find a working copy anywhere and pretty desperate to get some edits done please.

Charles Winthorpe III
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5474 posts since 29/7/05

15 Mar 2010 02:18

thats the shit dreep!

appreciate it.

Greggle

576 posts since 21/1/05

16 Mar 2010 20:14

Every time I watch a vid online or use a site like http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/ my macbook slows right down and the fan comes on and stays on for ages. I've read somewhere about taking the battery out and pressing down power for 5 seconds so I've done that but it's just the same. Even if a video has fully loaded, it'll play for a bit then start jumping and the computer becomes unresponsive. Haven't got a clue why, I upgraded to 2 GB of ram not too long ago. Could it be something to do with Chrome?

Anyone have any suggestions to what else I could try to make the fan stop going all the time?

Cheers.

snookd

10 posts since 16/11/09

16 Mar 2010 20:18

Greggle wrote: Every time I watch a vid online or use a site like http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/ my macbook slows right down and the fan comes on and stays on for ages. I've read somewhere about taking the battery out and pressing down power for 5 seconds so I've done that but it's just the same. Even if a video has fully loaded, it'll play for a bit then start jumping and the computer becomes unresponsive. Haven't got a clue why, I upgraded to 2 GB of ram not too long ago. Could it be something to do with Chrome?

Anyone have any suggestions to what else I could try to make the fan stop going all the time?

Cheers.

Try something other than Chrome first.. but sounds like your graphics card is struggling/dying

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