On 31/1/05, Shel Belinkoff, discombobulated, unleashed: >Yesterday I stopped into a nearby Apple store to look at the Cinema >displays and to find out if they'd work on a PC. Oh, my, that 30" display >is A-mazing.
So I gather. Never seen one meself. > While wiping the slobber from my chin I was also impressed >with how quiet the Mac was compared to the jet sounding high-end Intel >PC's. I think that depends. Add-on boards come with extra fans, making extra noise. Most Macs come ready-equipped, so you more or less get what you hear. IIRC they have a liquid cooling system for the CPU ? Dave Mann will know more here. >Mine has SEVEN fans, and sometimes it seems that a blimp would be a >great accessory. So, Mac users, is the Power Mac G5 the high end for the >machine? Currently, yes. >Talk to me about speed, PowerMac G5s are amongst the fastest consumer machines available and will be comparable to the fastest PC machines. As of June 2004, the G5 comes in single and dual processor format, up to 2.5 Gigahertz >memory, RAM can be added on a BTO (Built To Order) Mac, up to the supported maximum (IIRC 8 GB) >number, size and speed of hard >drives it can support, A Mac is basically a PC - it uses industry-standard components. You can swap out hard drives like you can on an Intel box. The current G5s come with either 80 or 160GB drives, and can be ordered with up to 2 250GB drives. When a 500GB drive becomes available, then you would be able to remove an existing drive, and replace it. AFAIK, there is space for two hard drives inside. > what processors can it use The G5 processor is made for Apple by IBM. There are third party companies like Sonnet technologies who make processor upgrades for older Macs, but this will not apply to the latest Apple machines for some time. The latest Macs are the fastest available, upgrades are a non-sequitur at the moment. > However, I'd like some first hand comments about these machines. I would love to give you a first-hand review but I'm on a G3 machine which although showing its age, is still plenty fast for my needs. This page gives you all the relevant info: <http://www.apple.com/powermac/specs.html> HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
