The G5 4 Ghz Apple Computer is a reality!
Tuesday, June 24, 2003 by kona0197 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
The Power Mac G5 is the world’s fastest personal computer and the first with a 64-bit processor — which means it breaks the 4 gigabyte barrier and can use up to 8 gigabytes of main memory. The new G5 processor — available at speeds up to dual 2GHz with a new ultrahigh-bandwidth system architecture featuring AGP 8X and PCI-X — makes the Power Mac G5 a breakthrough in desktop processing power. And models start at just $1999.
here is the fulll story:
http://www.apple.com/powermac/
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Reply #62 Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:51 AM
Orion, I agree. But in the case I mentionned, the Dual 500Mhz G4's, they are running OSX (supports dual proc) and mainly use Photoshop (also support duals proc) and Quark XPress (not sure about that one).
I don't know if the combination of their two processors really equal 1Ghz or not, but I can tell you they are much faster than my P3 1.4 Ghz. But then again, as I said, they are 3 times the price.
Reply #63 Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:53 AM
waist a sec, Yoga not Yoda
I want a Lemond Titainum//Carbon "Arrive"
I did exchange and upgrade to a Fisher "Fast City" two days ago
They were designed on MAC's so it is not off topic
Hey, it could happen
Reply #64 Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:44 AM
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Reply #66 Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:38 PM
| Paxx Writes: But two things that are true is that the Macs are faster, and that the Macs are more expensive |
Macs are faster? Than what? A slow PC? The fastest Mac is not faster than the fastest PC. And even for the Mhz they don't feel faster, that's for sure.
And the bang for the buck, like you mention, is not favorable to the Mac. I use my Mac to convert my home movies to DVD. It's a painful process and if I had to do it over again I would have bought a high end PC to do it because the Mac is so much slower.
OS X is very slick in a lot of ways, but it's definitely not fast. My Mac is 800Mhz and it is definitely slower feeling than my 700Mhz laptop. A lot of that is because of the eye candy they have on there.
Reply #67 Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:41 PM
| I want a Lemond Titainum//Carbon "Arrive" I did exchange and upgrade to a Fisher "Fast City" two days ago |
Three words for you: road bikes suck.
Reply #68 Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:51 PM
Reply #69 Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:58 PM
There is only one type of bikes in my house and they all have 2.3 inch tires with big knobbies.
Nuff said, sorry to hijack my own thread
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Reply #73 Friday, June 27, 2003 4:26 AM
and this being stardock site why would we give a Dam about Apples G5s
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Reply #75 Friday, June 27, 2003 6:33 AM
| Macs are faster? Than what? A slow PC? |
Brad, as I said. A Dual 500Mhz G4 running OS 9 is faster than a P4 1.4 Ghrz. Much faster.
Opening Photoshop, openning a 1 Gig PSD, were 2 to 3 times faster on the Mac. But this could be in part because the speed of HD access is faster on SCSI. So we played the filter test. A large radiant blur on that same 1 Gig image. We figured that kind of operation was almost all processor power in action. Well, as I said the Mac did it rather fast, while I had to Ctrl-Alt-Del Photoshop on mine after a few minutes.
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Reply #80 Friday, June 27, 2003 7:56 AM
Gotta look purdy, though....like a woman.....what's the use of brains, anyway?
Jafo runs...really really really quickly....
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Reply #61 Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:08 AM