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Interesting observation. And you should read more carefully the first time, then you won't mix up county and country. It's all good. I have an abundance of PPC Macs and there really aren't a lot of avenues to recycling them these days.
Retro and awesome. Those who claim PPC architecture no longer has any uses don't know what they are talking about. I still regularly use my Aluminium PowerBook G4 running Leopard and PowerMac G4 running Tiger.Same thing they were doing before.
My Quicksilver…1.8Ghz Dual, 3.6TB SATA drives, 1.5GB ram, USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2, six displays. I use it for design. Adobe CS4, QuarkXPress 8.5.1, Acrobat 9.4.5 with Suitcase Fusion 3 and Office 2008.
Unfortunately, the Quicksilver's time has passed. I got tired of constantly trying to improve the cooling inside a case that was not designed to handle the amount of heat being generated by all my upgrades. The Mac kept eating PCI SATA cards and USB/FW cards as well. It was very fun when it was working, but stability was huge factor.
So, a user here graciously sold me a Quad and that's where all this stuff lives now - most of it stock though rather than upgrades.
If you read my signature you'll see a link to the latest pic (I have yet taken) of the system. Haven't had to worry about stability too much any more.
I find even any of the dual core G5’s are very capable, including my 2.0 ghz model.
My workstation, literally because it is at my work, is an iMac G3 running Mac OS 9!
All of that abandonware is surprisingly powerful enough today.
Now this is an interesting post worth exploring! What exactly is your work? Is the G3 your main work machine?
You can do everything, if you're the *brain* and push out the ideas and the important stuff and make others want to or have to adapt to your system ...
You can do everything, if you're the *brain* and push out the ideas and the important stuff and make others want to or have to adapt to your system ...
Fair enough, but most of us don't have the privilege of being able to force the world around us to fit to our specific workflow.
For example, I work on an enterprise web-application, and most all of the dev work could be done on my Powerbook G4. However, I could never fully test it, due to the little issue that we ONLY support Chrome (its an internal app).It's a 600 mhz iMac G3. It's used as a word processor (Appleworks and Word), sound recording (Audacity), and possibly basic audio editing in a few days.
For all of those tasks, that G3 running OS 9 is perfect. 10.4's piece of the iMac will likely be leaving...save for converting a docx.
Couldn’t you spoof the user agent of your browser? I do it for Slack, since they don’t support Mountain Lion with their app anymore. (I use a 2006 imac at work.)Fair enough, but most of us don't have the privilege of being able to force the world around us to fit to our specific workflow.
Sure could, but the problem is its not just a user agent problem. Our app has real bugs when not used in Chrome, even with current Firefox on current MacOS, so testing fixes against TFF is a non-starter. The other issue is that we use an in-house developed framework around Selenium WebDriver for automated testing, and a large part of my job is developing those tests, which, of course, only support Chrome.
(To be clear, Selenium supports Firefox, so it might work with TFF, but the differences in Chromedriver and Geckodriver wreak serious havoc on our tests without further modifications for compatibility.)