Five Years Ago

Posted Sun Sep 13, 2009 in Computing

Five years ago I wrote about setting up a new PowerMac. I’m still using that machine, although it’s showing its age now. With the release of Snow Leopard the PowerMac is no longer supported by the current version of the Apple operating system.

It is the ending of an age of powerful processors that couldn’t keep up with the Intel juggernaut. Although the machine still has a lot of computational power to offer, the 8xAGP bus is no longer able to keep up with the demands of some graphics-intensive applications. I notice that Photoshop and Lightroom both are slow to load. These are both big programs. Also, rendering video is slow too.

It’s time for me to upgrade my desktop. That’s why I decided to do a hard drive upgrade on my notebook with the idea of getting another year of service from that machine. I’ll purchase a new desktop computer this year, probably sooner rather than later. I’ll probably either sell the Dual-G5 or send it to my friend at TTU for use as a server of some kind.

Technology changes and time moves forward. Sometimes things end. “Every new beginning comes from some other new beginning’s end…”