PT's LE V8 on single core G5

[D'Animation]

Hi all,

My assistant is running a single core, 2 Ghz G5 powermac (model ref Powermac 7.3) with 6 GB RAM, OS 10.4.10 and Pt's LE 7.4 with a 002. He is only really responsible for track lays, dialog editing and a bit of sound design so its not real heavy duty stuff. My question is will Pt's 8 bring the machine to its knees? Obviously it will need Leopard installed first

Any one using a similar set up?
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[Kryst]

My understanding is that a PowerPC Mac cannot be updated higher than Tiger. Digidesign's own compatibility grid appears to confirm this... If I'm wrong, I'm going to be a bit upset with a few people, myself.

Compatibility Page

[Carl Fuehrer]

A G5 will run Leopard 10.5.8 which is the last OS for PPC. I have 2 PowerMac G5s running PT8 without any issues.

[ChuckS]

As long as you're not using any VIs, the G5 is respectable. I also have PT8 running on a G4 Powerbook with decent performance (sans VIs and demanding plugs of course). PPCs definitely run Leopard - 10.5.8 on both machines.

[D'Animation]

Thanks lads - yeh powerpc's aren't quite dead yet until Snow Leopard totally takes over (which i can't really see happening...). The hardest plugin is probably TL space which will only be 1 or 2 instances, and maybe the video track with DV toolkit. Everything else is pure editing.

Did consider seeing if OWC do any processor upgrade (would feel happier with a 2nd core) but there isn't any available - will give it a shot and see how we go
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[The Dougfather]

As stated the PPC's are still viable machines and TL Space is nothing to worry about because it has very low overhead. It's the VI's that are the killers.