G5 Dual 1.8Ghz with 2.5GB of RAM...logic studio!!!

Would Logic 8 run smoothly with these specs?

Logic run smoothly only on OS 9 system...
the smoothly operation is not related with processor speed...
The System OS X is the first cause of Logic problems...
you can listen many songs on my web site that was made with a G4 400 on OS9...
http://www.fermusic.com/content/view/12/2/
The numbers of Atmosphere instances that I was able to run on Logic 4 with my G4 400 are impossible for any Mac Os X system! (maybe a 32 cores at 8 Ghz will be able in the future to do that)...
But if Snow Leopard will be able to ran on G5... maybe, Logic will be able to works smmothly also on G4 machines.
This is a Mystery of technology.. I was on G4 400 10 Years Ago...
I was able to work smmothly with Logic...
After 10 Years a use a Dual G5 with a theoretical 10 Times faster speed...
But...
My music does not seems to keep so much advantage.. (I get more POPs, Cliks and Drops on OS X)... *But bounce off line works perfectly!* (problems starts on realtime process streaming from disk)*(I suggest a super fast Hard drive... 10000Rpm or Striped Raid set)*
Remember... Play your music and forget the speed of your CPU!)
Logic works on Mac from over than 15 Years...
Logic is Rock Solid on any MAC!
G

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Let me save you a little bit of trial and error -- I believe that initial chunk when first trying to move a slider is due to the work AP has to do to create a version (assuming that you are creating a version when an adjustment is done). Make sure you have the "Create new version when making adjustments" option in Preferences turned OFF. Manually create your versions when needed. Also, turn OFF the "New projects automatically generate previews" option. I'm not sure to what degree this helps, but Moki Mac recommended this to me, and the changes to both of those seemed to give my system some pep...I have 4GB RAM.
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Recording with Logic Studio

I've been reading post here trying to decide what to replace my current system with. Up until recently I've been running Logic Studio on a G4 powermac dual 1.25 with 2 gigs of ram. Logic on the main 120 drive. My tracks/files etc. on a secondary internal 120gig HD.
I record one audio track at a time.
A completed song on average consists of about 12 to no more than 24 tracks. Most of which are audio with plug-ins. often a track perhaps two with software instrument. Usually all audio tracks.
My question is wouldn't the white Macbook 2ghz core duo with 4 gigs of ram be able to run Logic with little or no problem. Let's say I record my tracks to an external 7200rpm HD, using Apogee's Duet as an interface? I know there is only 1 firewire port. Could I piggyback somehow?
Would recording to the 5400rpm drive really be that bad? I use to record audio on an original iMac 233mhz with a 5400 HD granted that was sometime ago and it was not using Logic.
I must say I have been looking at Macbook Pro, but like many others... I'm not sure I'm willing to bite the bullet. I know one should buy as much computer as they can... I think I would rather get another desktop at those prices.
I would like the mobility to record wherever and whenever I want to, keeping things as simple as possible. Within budget of course... I'm just wondering if the macbook would work for me.

After loading some completed songs which consisted of about 20 tracks (mostly audio/1 software instrument).. Logic worked beautifully. I had a real hard time mixing on my G4 desktop. With the plug-ins and amount of tracks the G4 Dual 1.25 was choking. "disk not fast enough, error.. yatta yatta.." The dual processors where simply being maxed out. The Macbook Pro 2.6ghz was using about a third of its power. A much more pleasant experience the the Macbook Pro and the Apogee duet.
With my apartment being my studio... not being tied to the desktop in wonderful. I can now record/work in any room.
Yes it is the same version of Logic Studio (Logic 8) I used on my desktop G4. Allowed 2 installs one desktop/one laptop with Logic. Didn't have to intall LE7. Simple put in the serial # when prompted. Took a few hours to load all the content from the Studio package.
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Secondhand Logic Studio 8 with Logic Pro 7 keycard?

Hello
Ive been offered a second hand full copy of Logic Studio 8 (not the upgrade) but i'm guessing there wont be a serial key with it because it's a used copy.
So i was wondering if anyone knows if i can used my old Logic Pro 7 Keycard with it?
I know it would work with the upgrade version but will it work with the full version of Logic Studio 8?
Many thanks
Tom

That makes perfect sense, i'll have a word with him at see if he can transfer the ownership.
Many thanks

Do Blueray burners work with a PPC G5 (dual 1.8GHz)

Do Blueray burners work with a PPC G5 (dual 1.8GHz)?

All BluRay burners are SATA, so you'd need either an External Firewire Burner or a SATA<->IDE converter if replacing the built-in CD/DVD drive.
Then you'd need Software like Toast 9 or 10...
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/optical-drives/superdrives/

Power Mac G5, Dual 1.8GHz - Sluggish Video

Hey Guys.
I purchased a used Power Mac G5 couple months back. Its a Dual 1.8GHz, 2.5GB Ram, 160GB Hdd, Geforce FX5200 64Meg AGP.
Ive noticed sense i got the machine that when watching video's on youtube or any type of high resolution video's, the playback is choppy. Even scrolling through webpages seems a bit choppy. With just standard applications the machine runs great and its nice and quick. Its just the video play back that is kind of hauting me. Now this may be a stupid question but will i notice a difference if i were to purchase another higher grade video card? Or is my machine not powerful enough for HD playback? Do i need more ram? Anyways thanks in advance for any type of advice.
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The 5200 is the weakest of the G5 AGP cards, and almost any other card would be an improvement.
Bear in mind that there are two flavors of AGP card, well three, really. There are Mac OEM cards like many of the Radeon 9600 and 9800 cards, many of which have one DVI and one ADC connector, or the GeForce 6800 GT and Ultra cards, which are considerably better than the 9600 Radeons and somewhat better than the 9800's. That being said, the second flavor is the PC AGP cards flashed to Mac ROM. Some fly, some don't fly so well. The third flavor is the PC AGP cards not flashed with Mac ROM, which are, in a word, unusable on a Mac.
With respect to Flash content, I will say that at least with Flash Player 10, you can expect with a GeForce 6800 Ultra OEM card to see sluggish playback in some cases, mainly because of CPU loading from the Flash plugin. In most cases, the 6800 Ultra is a pretty peppy card, but if things are loading the CPU, it can't help you much. With respect to scrolling and things like that, the better cards generally handle things pretty fluidly, but again, if there is a Flash or Java script running somewhere, like in an advertisement, things can get sluggish because of CPU loading.
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Doe's the reconfigured mac mini with the 3.0GHz Dual Core i7, with 3.5GHz Turbo Boost, run at 7200 rpm?

Hello there.
Doe's the reconfigured mac mini with the fourth generation 3.0 GHz Dual Core i7 with 3.5GHz Turbo Boost, with 1TB Fusion Drive, run at 7200rpm?
Thanks.

Historically Apple have generally used 5400rpm hard disk drives and while the detailed information on the Apple store does not definitively say what speed hard disk the 1TB Fusion drive includes, it does make mention of testing conducted with a 5400rpm drive.
Therefore I think we can safely assume it does come with a 5400rpm 1TB hard disk. However this is not necessarily as bad as it sounds, the whole point of a Fusion drive is to automatically off-load the most commonly used files to the much faster 128GB SSD portion of the Fusion drive so overall you should get performance better than even a 7200rpm hard disk.
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SATA Card for G5 Dual 1.8Ghz

I'm looking for an internal SATA card for my PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8Ghz. I've got a couple hard drives laying around that I wanted to RAID together with my Time Machine Backup drive. Instead of spending hours looking on Google, I figured I'd poll the masses.
Newegg.com has a ton but I want to make sure I get one that is compatible with my hardware.
Thanks in advance!

The only sure thing is the Firmtek Seritek cards.
They are also the only ones that support boot to the connected drives.
Native OS X support is also an important point.
Firmtek also provides excellent tech support
After that, Highpoint has compatibles, and non compatibles.
They don't support boot, and, but can perform well enough.
If you take the path less taken, and get a card that uses generic Silicon Images drivers, then OS X support, and successful use, is highly variable (to say the least).

Powermac G5 Dual 1.8Ghz RAM question

I purchased one stick of 1Gb RAM and installed it on the motherboard, but I didnt know it had to be installed in pairs so the computer wont recognize it. I made an order for a second stick and it should arrive in a couple of days. Can I use my computer with the one stick still in there, or do I need to remove it and install both at the same time?
Powermac G5 Dual 1.8Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.9)

dfernandez86-
I am confused so this is probably a dumb question, but how can using 1 stick be configured as a pair?
I would take the new stick out and use it as originally configured. When you get the second stick have at it.
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Dual 1.8ghz # of SATA Headers

Hello
Curious as to how many SATA headers are on my 4 dimm slotted dual 1.8ghz G5. I have two internal SATA drives right now (the max...) but want to use an eSATA enclosure (hopefully without having to purchase a PCI Mac SATA card as they are a little pricy...) Is there more than 2 SATA headers on this logic board?
If not / if I need a SATA PCI card, which works with my G5 (I here this particular model has weird PCI slots that are kind of weak? At least M-Audio seems to think so...)

Pricy depends on your needs and definition. You are stuck with two native ports each has its own channel and they only support single drive.
You can add a few more internally with a PCI 2 or 4-channel controller and Sonnet Jive.
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http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/FTST1S2/
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Dual 1.8GHz 2GB RAM not gonna run iMovie '08?

Hello all,
I have heard that despite what the requirements for iMovie '08 are, it will run on a dual 1.8GHz Power Mac G5 (I swear I read that a fellow PMG5 1.8GHz user was doing it...with if memory serves, 3GB of RAM.) But do I really need 3GB of RAM? I wanna max this bad boy out but I dont have the money to do so at the moment. However its beyond me as to why it installed without a single problem. It even says it requires a dual 2.0GHz. But I just popped the iLife '08 DVD in the Mac and it installed everything on the DVD no questions asked. What I find a bit weird is I went to a friends house (he has a PMG5 Single 1.6GHz 4GB RAM) it wouldnt install. Ok so maybe his specs were too low. =( but this thing is super fast. (Im running Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard hes still running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger (I sold him my 10.4.6 DVD when I bought my 10.5.6 DVD) And we have blazing fast machines. Esp his! I wonder why his is faster...is Tiger really THAT MUCH older?
Regards

Hi-
RAM isn't as much of an issue as processor speed.
iLife 08 will install on most any machine, even G4's, but the ability to use iMovie successfully requires more CPU, thus the 2.0GHz stated in the system requirements.
Anyhow, it wouldn't be the first time a machine with lower than recommended CPU speed installed iMovie 08:
http://tom.goskar.com/2007/09/03/imovie-08-on-a-18ghz-single-processor-g5/
Some ineteresting discussion here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=338836
Only 512MB of RAM is necessary, but Apple recommends 1GB.
However, RAM becomes necessary when manipulating large files.
2GB is really as low as one should go..... and more is better with graphics and video related work.
The 3GB issue is not RAM, but hard drive space.
The software suite simply requires that much space on the hard drive.
Tiger is faster than Leopard on most all PPC machines.
Leopard has its sweet spots, but uses more RAM, CPU and graphics card than Tiger.
This may explain why a slower machine "feels" faster.

Is there much difference btwn dual 1.8ghz and dual 2.0ghz

Hi,
I have seen a dual 1.8ghz (M9454LL/A) second hand with this spec:
Machine Type: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac 7,3
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (2.2)
Number of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed 1.8GHz
L2 cache (per CPU): 512KB
Memory: 1.25 GB
Bus speed: 900MHz
Graphics Card: GeForce FX 5200
ATA Bus (DVD): Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-117D
Serial-ATA (hard-drive): Maxtor 80GB
for a good price around £800 which would leave me with money to buy a monitor.
This model already has airport built in and additional ram added.
I am a music producer (running digidesign protools LE) and need a studio computer to see me through the next couple of years. I have been looking at getting a dual 2.0ghz machine but these are invariably more expensive and I would have to pay to add the features this model already has, as well as purchasing a flatscreen.
Basically I want to know how much of a performance difference i will see between a dual 1.8ghz machine and a dual 2.0ghz machine.
cheers guys

Ok that dual 1.8 is not much difference from a dual 2
Your dual 1.8 has a 900 Mhz front-side bus per processor
The dual 2 has 400 more Mhz total in CPU speed (not much really) and a 1000 Mhz frontside bus per processor.
So the difference is minimal.
You could upgrade that video card to a AGP ATI X800 and 3D game all the latest ones with no problem. (I would before they are all gone)
If you get yourself another internal hard drive, something large like a 250-300GB SATA and keep your user files in there instead of on the 80GB Maxtor, your performance "feel" would be pretty good as well. (no Western Digital, they upgraded their SATA specs)
And you got a Superdrive, so you can burn dvds.
If time doesn't equal money, and your not constantly pushing your CPU's day and night, this machine is a good buy IMO. You should get a good 3-4 years out of it, especially if you know when to stop upgrading the OS/apps.
Yes I say you got yourself a good buy there.

Dual 2.8GHz for HD* is this true?

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Apple Mac Pro 2008 dual 2.8ghz quad core

Hey guys,
Ive got a real brain teaser. I have a apple mac pro 2008 dual 2.8ghz quad core that wont boot.
The leds on the memory test good its all tested in another mac and working well.
The 9 leds are reading as follows 2nd led lit yellow. Led 9,8,7 Green- which from my research is good.
Ive also reset the cmos battery and vram, nothing.
Pulled the memory and video card and re-seated them also nothing.
The last thing i tryed was shut the computer down sit for 30 seconds then held alt and got the install mac os screen not a hard drive option.
Which leads me to think its not seeing the hard drive?
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Starts up with fans
Makes the apple chime
The chime is generated in software when the first portion of the power-on self test has passed.Your Mac is working and has enough working RAM memory to start up.
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with spinning gear and just sits there for hours
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Can a NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 with 1.5GB work in a Apple Mac Pro Xeon Quad CORE 2.0?

Apple does sell it at BTO. $2700, so yes.
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