Okay, its time for me to roll over and finally get some new hardware.
I'm looking for a general purpose web applicance, but I do want some horsepower for importing & manipulating photographs in Photoshop. My wife also wants me to convert our old Wedding VHS tape, which I figure can be done on iMovie and a TBD adaptor. FWIW, I have absolutely NO need or interest in high framerate shoot-em-up games.
My current hardware is a heavily upgraded 8500 (400Mhz G4, ~256M RAM, dual 9GB SCSI80's), and the external peripherals that I care about include: CD-R (SCSI), Nikon LS-1000 film scanner (SCSI), a medium format color printer (USB), and a flatbed scanner (USB). Connection to the outside world is a 56K modem, as my local DSL prices & services still aren't up to snuff.
My current thoughts are a 17" iMac, or a Dual 1GHz PowerMac.
I also have a ton of legacy stuff that I know is going to have to eventually go, so I'm looking at at least a Firewire-SCSI bridge. My bigger question is the issues behind supporting this stuff with Native OS 9 vs. running X and the Emulated OS 9. What's the real deal here?
I'd really rather not buy "trailing edge of technology" hardware, unless the implications are that I should really buy something that can still boot into OS 9. Its pretty much "now or never" for that issue.
Similarly, should I really be looking more at upgrading to a firewire-based scanner as a bigger effective performance contributor than worrying about the difference between a single 800Mhz G4 vs. Dual 1Ghz?
Your thoughts...
-hh
I'm looking for a general purpose web applicance, but I do want some horsepower for importing & manipulating photographs in Photoshop. My wife also wants me to convert our old Wedding VHS tape, which I figure can be done on iMovie and a TBD adaptor. FWIW, I have absolutely NO need or interest in high framerate shoot-em-up games.
My current hardware is a heavily upgraded 8500 (400Mhz G4, ~256M RAM, dual 9GB SCSI80's), and the external peripherals that I care about include: CD-R (SCSI), Nikon LS-1000 film scanner (SCSI), a medium format color printer (USB), and a flatbed scanner (USB). Connection to the outside world is a 56K modem, as my local DSL prices & services still aren't up to snuff.
My current thoughts are a 17" iMac, or a Dual 1GHz PowerMac.
I also have a ton of legacy stuff that I know is going to have to eventually go, so I'm looking at at least a Firewire-SCSI bridge. My bigger question is the issues behind supporting this stuff with Native OS 9 vs. running X and the Emulated OS 9. What's the real deal here?
I'd really rather not buy "trailing edge of technology" hardware, unless the implications are that I should really buy something that can still boot into OS 9. Its pretty much "now or never" for that issue.
Similarly, should I really be looking more at upgrading to a firewire-based scanner as a bigger effective performance contributor than worrying about the difference between a single 800Mhz G4 vs. Dual 1Ghz?
Your thoughts...
-hh