Dane D. - New member

[Dane D.]

Hi, new to the website. I got here from a post at forums.macrumors.com. A little bit about myself and hardware. I'm in advertising/marketing. I wear many hats; account exec, graphic production artist, website builder, photographer, videographer and in-house Mac support (rarely needed.) My personal rig at home is a B/W G3 that I have upgraded. It has the Powerlogix 750GX cpu running at 1.1GHz with L2 cache set at 1.1GHz. Four 256MB RAM for 1GB total. Added a 4-port PCI USB card and a 3-port PCI Firewire card. The video card is a ATI Radeon 9200. I have three internal HDs; 80GB with OS 10.4.6, 12.66GB with OS 9.2.2 and a 80GB storage drive.

External devices are 1TB USB portable WD MyPassport. 500GB USB WD MyBook  and a 500GB Firewire OWC Mercury Elite Pro. A LaCie Firewire CD burner also.

I still use OS 9 for some legacy apps and games, but when I need to do everyday stuff it is in OS X.

At work we still have some older units running. A 450MHz G4, a MDD dual 867 G4 and a 8600/200 to communicate with our Fiery RIP that runs an old EPSON 24-inch wide printer. My work station is a quad-core MacPro from early 2009 stuffed with 1.3TB of HD space and 14GB of RAM. My primary software is Adobe CS 4 Suite and QuarkXPress.

[DieHard]

Welcome Dane

The Mac pro you mentioned (The 2009 quad) is one of my favorite machines; I use two dual quad cores for many collaboration projects and the 2008/2009 Mac Pros are extremely stable.  I will still be using G4s for many legacy apps that I will never learn to part with.  Mac OS 9 will always have its place in my heart and mind. the cats come and go... they seem to have a short life span... but Mac OS is truly a timeless work of art

[Protools5LEGuy]

Welcome! Good to see a fistfull of professionals here!
I've some weeks around here but decided to start actively a few days ago. I am a sound engineer/videowall tech. with big bands on tour over Andalucia. I am a veteran from the Logic 3.6 age 
You could give us benchmarks about your rare G3.
I always thought a G3 1.1 should be as fast as a G4 800-933 or even higher for Protools, cubase and all that "non G4 optimized" apps that we love to use. I am a G3 B&W 350 user too (rev1 sadly) and have bought a XLR8 G4 500 for the blue. Finally we can compare them with DAWs and realword apps (not just Quake/Doom/Halo).
Maybe we can make a commented post together about the minimal extensions needed for every DAW/Apps. I am going to make a partition for Protools5LE other for Logic 5-6-6.5 and other for multimedia. The smaller extensions folder, the quicker mac