I fell in love with G5
Macs in Croatia are way too expensive. Our Apple store raised prices way too much for us—the ordinary people. Just for example—Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz is in Croatia even more expensive than Dual 2.5 GHz in the U.S.A. Since i declare as being able to build web sites that work on every platform, the company managed to make me one available for testing purposes, since our current project has quite complicated layout.
Love at the First Sight
The morning ‘he’ arrived, we ran every possible test on it. This Dual 1.8 were 4 times faster than our fastest PC (P4 3GHz) in rendering Radial Blur over the Rendered Clouds in Photoshop. We fell in love. When this first euphoria passed, i looked up for browsers installed to start some testing. Safari and IE 5.2.3. were already there by default, but we also wanted to see web sites in Camino. The first thing i wondered was “How do we install anything on Mac?”. Browsed to Camino homepage, clicked at download link, took a few moments to download, and the next thing i’ve been asked was to place Camino icon where i want it!!? Awesome!
Bitter Reality
Camino and Safari rendered pages almost perfectly, i’ve just done some minor adjustments for a few details (digression: after we launch the web site i’ll explain some layout tricks). On the other hand—as i expected—in IE/Mac the web site is a mess… (i will have to spend some time now to debug it).
Anyway, i’m rethinking my hardware-upgrade-financial-plan in order to somehow afford me ‘the Monster’ G5.
12 Comments
I wish I had even G 0,001 :) Still I can’t afford to even look at this on our Polish shop shelves. Would you be so kind so as to put some your awesome photos of your G5?
Comment (#) by Denver — 13th February 2005.
I payed $700 for a G4 Powerbook of an older generation, a few months ago, and I’ve very satisfied with it. If the LCD annoys me, I can connect it to my VGA display. You can look for simillar second-hand deals!
I have a friend that intends to go get a G5 Mac from Austria because there, the prices are almost the same as in the US.
I think I’ll finance a iMac and a iPod Shuffle when OS X 1.04 comes out, and pay them over the next 2-3 years. The monthly payments should be OK, if I can find a bank with a low interest rate for personal purchases…
Comment (#) by Gabriel Mihalache — 13th February 2005.
You lucky bastard! :)
Just look at my whish list on my site :)
Comment (#) by ©ime Ramov — 13th February 2005.
@Denver: Unfortunately, this G5 is not ‘mine’—it’s only in my office for a week or two, untill i fix the site.
@Gabriel: I’ve been thinking about ‘the Austria combination’, and also—buying second-hand G4 sounds like affordable alternative. I might give it a thought.
@Šime: I saw it! : )
Comment (#) by marko — 14th February 2005.
Well, I’m currently selling my audio setup, and my father is somewhere on atlantic ocean on it’s way to america, so there is a chance (if I sell audio components) that he buy me a Mac mini :)
Comment (#) by ©ime Ramov — 14th February 2005.
@Markus:
Political situation sux? Ever heard about Polish one? ;-)
@marko:
You got your G5 at work, but you can take a photo of it, right? :) Pleeeease… just 1 photo :)
Comment (#) by Denver — 14th February 2005.
I’ve been a strong mac user for seven years now, and a CSS developer… we don’t use mac IE. If there are mac users who do; they’re probably not mac users. Much less, I don’t know any mac users who don’t have multiple browsers.
In short, while you should make sure mac IE users see your content, never worry about coding for them, let it break. It’s not worth the cost, hassle, or headache:)
Comment (#) by Brady J. Frey — 14th February 2005.
@Denver:
Photo of G5 at your request added : )
Comment (#) by marko — 15th February 2005.
Argh, it looks amazing! Thanks for that photo, you’re now my close friend ;)))
Comment (#) by Denver — 15th February 2005.
Yeah, same situation with Macs here. Too expensive compared to USA and average income.
Comment (#) by dusoft — 16th February 2005.
Do keep in mind that OS 9 and earlier users have no real options for standards-compliant or even remotely-modern broswers other than IE 5.
Comment (#) by Joe Clark — 16th February 2005.
@Brady J. Frey & Joe Clark:
I never done any debugging for IE/Mac, so this is a kind of challenge. However (and as much as i hate this), i might finish up with slightly simplified version of layout served for that particular browser only.
Comment (#) by marko — 16th February 2005.
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