rainfactor Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 Hi I am very tempted to buy a G5 MacPro I have actually 2 choices : a 1.6 and a 1.8 single proc PCI version not PCI-X.The 1.6 is slightly cheaper they both have 1Gb of RAM they both have only 4 memory slots they both run Leopard Now the question is: would the 1.8 be faster than the 1.6 although the bus speed is only 600Mhz vs 800 on the 1.6 On the other hand the memory on the 1.8 is clocked at 400Mhz vs 333 on the 1.6 Since i don't know much about Mac hardware any advice would be appreciated Obviously i want the the faster one but the specs confused me I will be using this machine mostly for basic tasks : Internet browsing, listening music, some Photoshopping and i might dare some video editing once in a while Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaaseyRacer Posted October 9, 2008 Share Posted October 9, 2008 I would avoid both unless they are around $100 bucks and you are going to use them for the case to drop your hackmac in it. The Single processor machines max out at 4GB of RAM (although come to think of it I think the single 1.8 has 8 slots so 8GB max). Regardless it is older architecture that will not support the next OS (10.6 snow leopard). Save up and wait for a better deal to come along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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