Shel, I worked for Apple for over a decade and put a lot of time into various aspects of the OS and Development Tools efforts for the G5. They've been on the market since July of 2003, it's a great line of computers.
The G5 top end now is a dual processor 2.5Ghz system with liquid cooling. All G5s are very quiet ... They have an advanced internal airflow management system with 9 variable speed fans coordinated by temperature sensors. Mac OS X is already very stable, reliable, with state of the art graphics, text and connectivity protocols; and it continues to be under intensive development. The G5 cpus are very efficient, particularly at the sorts of things important for rendering images, motion graphics, sound, etc, and outperform most Intel based CPUs with half again to double the Mhz numbers. I forget how many drives can fit inside the G5 Tower enclosure, needless to say it can handle plenty of internal storage, and you can also fit high speed external drives, RAID arrays, etc. via FireWire (both 400Mbps and 800Mbps ports), up to 64 devices can be fitted at full speed on FireWire. It also supports full speed USB 2.0, gigabit ethernet, state of the art graphics adapters, etc etc. I've been using/working on these machines since somewhere in late 2002. They're the best computer systems I've had to work on (and I've had DEC, Sun, Intel, Windows, Alliant, Apple, Dell, HP, IBM AS400, etc etc during the 20 some years I was in the computer industry); I'd recommend them to anyone and know that they can get the job done. Do go to the Apple website and peruse the volumes of information available there about the G5 and Mac OS X. If you have any specific questions, feel free to drop me a note. Godfrey --- Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your comments. I've been to the site but was > hoping to get some > first hand comments from users. I guess the G5 is still new > and spendy > (much more expensive than a comparable PC), so there may not > be too many > people using them yet. The machine struck me as quite elegant > ... > > Shel > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > This page gives you all the relevant info: > > > > <http://www.apple.com/powermac/specs.html> > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
