Feeling a little loney and left behind

Hi all
I have a DP2 G5 and only lately with all these new intel macs I'm feeling a little left behind,
Is the G5 still a performance machine or have we been left behind in the new intel mac wake?

Hi Gambit Hunt-
I have a DP2.7 G5 that I don't plan on getting rid of any time soon.
Unless there is some great new program that one needs an intel Mac for I think you will find that most don't use their computers to even a fraction of what the device is capable of.
I've got another 18 months or so of Applecare left and I fully intend to run it until the end. Now that doesn't mean I won't hit the lottery or come into some sweet cash that I blow on a new Mac, but that is a different issue (:>)
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

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Dennis,
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for it was to change the command from:
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to:
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That was the solution to my problem.
Hope this one helps for u
Greets
Tracer60
> I know this sounds a little weird, but sometimes after one of my techs
runs one of the scripts we use stuff is left behind on the workstation
(games, or media players that are not part of the image - but not
everything). You can actually watch the image process and complete ok and
restart the computer - it even goes though the post imaging stuff prior to
login. Here is an example of one of the 2 scripts doing this sometimes -
>
> dd if=/bin/mbr.mbr of=/dev/hda
> dd if=/bin/mbr.mbr of=/dev/sda
>
> img pd1
> img pd2
> img pd3
> img pd4
> img pc1 ntfs
> img rp $PROXYADDR //$PROXYADDR/zen/images/imagename.zmg a1:p1
> img pa1
> reboot -f
>
> It's happening on XP and 2000 latest updates on both, were currently
running Zfd version 6.5.2. Has anyone seen this, or do you see any reason
with this script that this would happen?? It works normally if you go
though imaging w/o the scripts.
>
> Thanks for any clues!!
> Dennis

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MAX_D2                                                   NUMBER
MIN_D3                                                   NUMBER
MAX_D3                                                   NUMBER
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