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Who's still doing paid work on a G4?

What do you do your Paid work on ?

  • G5 or Intel

    Votes: 38 34.9%

  • G4 or earlier

    Votes: 69 63.3%

  • other

    Votes: 2 1.8%
  • Total voters
    109
If I didnt sell my iBook G4 to my boss for the company. I would be working on a blue G3. Needless to say an iBook G4 doing heavy Photoshop and large catalogues is not a good thing.

I have never worked for anyone that has had any good machines and I have worked for a lot of companies.. I could do my work MUCH faster at home because I have a G5 plus my home studio is set up really well instead of my crappy workplace with ancient machines. We even still have a beige G3 in the corner.

This is one reason why i hate work. They give you crap tools then expect the world from you 5 minutes later. Try processing 500 40MB images on an iBook G4. :mad:
 
Plenty, I still know a couple that do work on Power Mac G3's too, though admittedly it's mainly print and web stuff, not exactly the most demanding of work.
 
My PB G4 is my work computer, and my Power Mac G4 at home is mainly for leisure, so I'm still firmly a G4 man...though not for much longer. As soon as I finish my graduate program I'm buying myself a tricked out Mac Pro. :cool:

But the PowerBook will probably soldier on for 2-3 more years.
 
I still have a 1.5Ghz Powerbook as my main computer at home. Do plenty of payed and pro-level unpaid work on it on a daily basis.

My computer at work is a Dual G5.

The powerbook is definitely starting to feel slow, but I vowed not to buy a new computer until CS3 came out.
 
Well, I am using an iMac g4 1.0ghz, 512mb 17" to do a lot of video editing. I have burned about 65 dvd's in the last month or made about 30 different 2 hour long projects in iMovie. I am converting video from older camcorder tapes to dvds. The process to encode and everything takes about 9 hours. Its a little time consuming which is why we are considering a mac pro.
 
2 dual G4s at home, 2 G5s at work (1 quad and 1 dual). I prefer the G5s for heavy stuff (3D renders, massive photoshop files) otherwise the G4s are still producing plenty of work.


 
G4 and Below.

It looks like I am not the only one using the iMac G4 1Ghz 17". It has been about 4 years now, and my first major problem happened last week - my superdrive died.

I have been using it for Print and Packaging design, Web and Multimedia Design and programming, and some very light Video and Motion graphics. All in all, it has been a real workhorse and proven to be an excellent investment as far as price/performance ratio.

Since the superdrive died I have put my iMac DV G3 back on light duty, and have migrated some of my current work over. Just in case the G4 decides to have any other problems.

Upgrading to a new machine and OS would be nice. But when you have tight deadlines, moving away from a setup that already works to one with potential incompatabilities is the stuff of nightmares.
 
I uses my MBP coreduo for processor heavy stuff and the G5, dual 1.8. when I want Graphics heavy stuff, an the larger screen. Both Machines are pretty close to being equal in power.

Long render's I do on the G5 and leave it alone for however long.

What I mainly use:
photoshop
FCP
shake
xcode

lots of freelance stuff for people at school.
 
I do, (1.67 PB) and probably will for a while yet. Mostly print and internal. Its when I do personal stuff such as DVDs it can seem slow. That's not often enough to justify replacement though. Hopefully, when Santa Rosa, Leopard, iWork and CS3 are all out I can think about upgrading.
 
My little 1.0Ghz G4 PB chomps along better than a lot of new laptops out there, and it goes for hours a day, I love it. I only have the 32MB Video Card though and that's about the only place I wish I had some more oomph it, Core Image really puts it to work and my fans are on 80% of the time, 100% when I'm working with RAW in CS2. But, for 3 years old... it's still a slick cushy ride for me!

However... give me 4 cores and a 512MB Vid card please :)
 
Hopefully, I'll be using my 1.33 GHz iBook G4 for several more years, but the only official paying work it is used for is proofreading and the occasional odd task for my dad's small ad agency. I also use it for all of my college work as well, which consists mostly of word processing, Keynote, and Photoshop.
 
I do all my work (both at home at at the work place) on G3's :eek:
At least my machine at home I installed a G4-500 CPU that helps a bit. I design and layout several monthly newsletters, help in customer education and consulting. My mainstay at work is preflighting and prep for commercial offset presses. The work I do at home is for all media formats. Someday I may just get my head above water enough to actually get a new machine :rolleyes:
 
Yup, ALL of my work, paid or otherwise, is done on my 6 year old single processor G4 /466.

Software updates mean I'll probably look to a new Intel Mac when Leopard is released soon - not for any issues in the practical speed of the G4, just that compatibility with client's files is becoming an issue.
 
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