Geek Talk: Mac Pro

[MrPearPodd]

What quality can you get with a avchd camera on a power pc

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@MrPearPodd You can't import AVCHD footage using PowerPC Macs. PowerPC Mac's aren't compatible with the format.

[eschofield1]

what software do you use to dip dvds

[techyapplekid]

@eschofield1 he uses handbrake forMac

[MrNando5556]

what company did you use to pick up your mac pro?

[Paspiedreamcast]

You would have been better off buying a high definition MiniDV camcorder, like a Canon Legria HV-40. As well as being compatible with Powermacs, it would have been a lot less CPU intensive, so there would be less reason to buy a Mac Pro.

[oldVideoGamesChannel]

I strongly agree with the luck thing, I bought my 15 inch macbook pro locally for $396 and I got a mac pro off of ebay for $950, i've had extraordinary luck, and the deals are out there if you look hard enough.

[macprorocks]

Also, you can't really go wrong with 8 cores, 16GB of RAM, and 2x Intel SSDs in RAID 0.

[macprorocks]

I hope to keep my 2008 Mac Pro until 2020 as my main computer :)

[360ownez]

Tom, how much did you originally pay for your Powermac G5?? i bought a dual G5 2.0Ghz 4GB ram for £250 Good deal?

[360ownez]

I just bought a powermac G5 Dual 2Ghz and concidering its not exactly new its still a pretty powerful machine and runs Everything i run at it at almost full speed, it takes me about 1 hour to rip a DVD

[zac1256]

i think they should leave u alone about no having a power pc because u still have a power book and a power mac and u cand do all the same stuff that a power mac can on a intel and more

[360ownez]

@zac1256 Say wha?? powerpc's are outdated, by about 5 years, where have you been living, a cave?

[zac1256]

@360ownez no i live in a big house in canda and the power pc risc uses more ram but it is faster

[360ownez]

@zac1256 ohh sorry dude i didn't quite understand your comment 

[zac1256]

@360ownez the power mac g5 is faster the intel 

[360ownez]

@zac1256 but the intel chip is more reliable and Boosts out almost the same performance, whilst staying very cool, the powerpc is an overhating nightmare and it doesnt run very efficiently, my Powermac g5 had Dual Cpu's whereas many new intel macs have Dual cores, In theory same power is pumped out, but intel is proven to be better for its reasons.

[iTechEverything]

@zac1256 are you crazy?

[Aaronage1]

Wow, £200 for a 5770? :O I know Apple overcharge, but that's a bit crazy! Standard 5770's are only worth £95 now :)

[oldVideoGamesChannel]

actually the G5 is pretty good at ripping DVD's if you have a great optical drive, your optical drive I believe was the original 2004 super drive. I have a 2010 HP optical drive, and movies rip in about 30 minutes to an hour(an hour for the long movies). A big part of transferring DVD's is just the optical drive. And yes some companies do still make new fast IDE Optical drives. Now if only the G5 was good at rendering XD

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@oldVideoGamesChannel Hmm. Different experiences to me. No matter what drive, my G5 would have NEVER converted a DVD for iTunes in 30 minuets... No way... You must be lucky :L

[oldVideoGamesChannel]

@ItsMyNaturalColour Oh haha, I actually have a Quad Core G5, didn't realize you had only the dual 2.5. Now it makes more sense.

[oldVideoGamesChannel]

you actually used a colon instead of a dash : )

[MrGeorgeWebster]

What DVD ripper do you use?

[MrGeorgeWebster]

What DVD ripper do you use

[ImAwesomeProductions]

Why would people complain about you getting a Mac Pro? It isn't as if you ditched PowerPC all together.

[iRoom4Macintosh]

I want to buy a G5 so bad? I like retro macs HELP PLEASE?

[arnolddisco]

Windows 7 and Premiere Pro CS5 was all it took to get me back on a PC. Got a quad core for £250

[Paspiedreamcast]

The trick is to browse eBay everyday.

[karrotsrkool]

"I'm going to try and make this video short!" = 17:31. Ye nice job but oh well still a good video.

[theaaplfan]

Thumbs up for yonks!!!!!!!

[theaaplfan]

Couldnt you just partition one drive into three if the capacity is large enough???

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@theaaplfan There isn't a drive out there at the moment with a big enough capacity for what I want. I need separate hard drives. Also, having 4 hard drive bays really makes this thing future proof because of the ease of upgrading... Cheers.

[ijoshtech]

Don't get a 5770. It's a rip off and you can get way better. Please!

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@ijoshtech It's the cheapest card available from Apple in my price range. The 5870 is wayyy too expensive...

[ijoshtech]

@ItsMyNaturalColour and THAT my friend is why Macs suck *sometimes*:

Apple 5770: $329!

PC 5770 (Gigabyte "Leading Brand": $163!

Mind you its in Australian Dollars but you get the point!

BTW im currently on a MBP lol -_-

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@ijoshtech Dude, the 5770 over here is £200... I can sell my X1900 on eBay for £120... A 5770 over here for a PC is like, £110 - £140. Not that much more expensive considering your guaranteed a working card with your Mac.

[Techsupportgoneeasy]

Tom, you should look into the Apple Tv. If you are ripping dvds onto your pc you can watch the dvd though the Apple Tv. That sounds really cool!

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@Techsupportgoneeasy I think the Apple TV is a great little device. However, I wouldn't buy one because the setup I'm running at the moment is proving to be everything I need :) I have a 10M VGA cable running from my Mac Pro up to my projector, and I use Front Row on my Mac. No need to spend more money on yet another piece of hardware :)

[Techsupportgoneeasy]

@ItsMyNaturalColour Ohh i didnt know you had your projector being used for your mac. Well thats great! No need for the Apple Tv :)

[MrCr80man]

I'm lovin that you're making videos more often :)

[RBproductions10]

Tom put a bit more ram in and your notice a big difference on your video rendering/exporting

[p4t4rs]

Great videos but u shud Do a video of your room setup!!!!!!

[JihadsFinest]

I got a G5 of scrumpymacs just recently which didnt work and it took them over a month to replace it howw was your service?

[Paspiedreamcast]

In my opinion, macs are overpriced and I would much rather prefer building a PC at home, but there you go. My opinion on performance: the more powerful the CPU the more stuff you can do with your computer, the more RAM the faster the computer, and the better the video card the least chance your system will stop responding. Way to go for buying one main computer though.

[pixeltater]

@Paspiedreamcast Every mac user on earth has heard this all before. We get it. You're never going to change our minds. He got a smokin' deal on a top notch machine. Grats to him.

[TheDataZoo]

@Paspiedreamcast Agreed pc ftw but i still like my macs.

[MrGeorgeWebster]

Mine records in AVI :( it wont work in anywhere :/

[the67bug]

:P browsing to see that urs is beter ..i like that .....what do you use for ripping???

and going back to the start to your options, was a hackintosh not an option that came to mind??? i now theres leg al issues and what not :P but its ALOT cheaper mine is a 3.1ghz quad core 8gb of ram 2tb of hdd an a 1tb internal backup ;) usb and firewire cards ,,,thats the basics .....and its in a g3 bw case lol i love the power pc macs .....cool alternitave :P cool vid keep the coming

[TheTechReviewerUk]

@ItsMyNaturalColour will you do a tutorial on how to dual boot windows on mac os

please?

[andrewnaylor08]

so really it isn't tour dream mac if your doing tons of upgrades

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@andrewnaylor08 Dream Mac? Hell yeah! It'll be my dream Mac wether it's got 1GB of RAM or 32GB of RM... It'll still be my dream Mac even if it doesn't have a video card! It's a Mac Pro.. :P :D

[macman2256]

Awesome Vid Tom! I so want a mac pro now but my 3.4ghz quad pc does the job atm.

[ferrari24680]

please give us a tutorial about ripping dvds to your mac!!!

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@ferrari24680 That's for the suggestion! Sounds like a good plan to me:)

[ferrari24680]

Got my imac g5 for 380 euro 325 pounds on ebay!!! 2gigs of ram 2.0ghz powerpc g5!!!

first mac and im really happy. Im kinda bummed about not getting lion but after another year i think ill save up for an intel mac sometime!

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@ferrari24680 That's an awesome deal and a great machine! :)

[sonic3243]

Wow, I didn't know cameras were so picky :P

It could easily work with PowerPC but they just like to suck the money out of people. They don't realize the economy around the world. The same goes for Snow Leopard, if it can work on AMD hackintoshes then someone should make Lion work on PowerPC G5's.

[TalesOfWar]

@sonic3243 I think it's the codecs required to use the format, they're only available for Intel x86 architecture.

[TalesOfWar]

@sonic3243 Oh, and AMD is the same CPU architecture as Intel. It's x86. PPC is a RISC architecture and it's quite different, there's a reason it took a few versions of OSX and very comprehensive emulation software (Rosetta) during the transition. Apple did a great job making things move over as smooth as possible though and it makes sense for them to only support one standard considering you can only buy Macs using Intel now. Most PC's from that time have been replaced anyway, or near to it.

[littlestubz]

Also what software do you use to rip dvds ??

[Madt001]

Sounds all exciting! That machine is going to be a BEAST when you've done all those upgrades! Hope you do videos for all the upgrades aswell.

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@Madt001 Yearp! :) Everything will be shared :)

[littlestubz]

great video tom, you know your film strip thing in the background, did you make it or buy it ?? i really want one !!

[ItsMyNaturalColour]

@littlestubz I bought it! :) I found it on eBay.... It's a glass picture frame that looks like 35mm cinema film.. Pretty cool :):)

[littlestubz]

@ItsMyNaturalColour Awesome i think i will have a browse around ebay then !!! thanks

[RandomStrategy]

Nice Video Tom Like Always :)

[MaestroBLC]

Makes me wanna get a Mac Pro really badly now. D:

[AmazedAlex]

Nice vid Tom :)

[macintoshgermany]

You can never have enough power to edit HD video :)

That`s why I recently bought my Mac Pro aswell (soo to be upgraded from 4x2,66 to 8 core). :)

Rocking 5 HDDs atm (4x3,5" and one in the 2nd optical drive bay)