G-5's 1.6 arrived at my office today
The first 2 G5 1.6's arrived at my office today. Boy are these sweet. the shipping box is pretty cool, and upon opening, I found a newly designed keyboard, similar to the new emac keyboard. The G5 is awesome. It looks so much better in person. Opening the side to see the guts was amazing. It was so clean inside and neat. I can see apple took extra measures to make expansion, and exchanging hard drives, optical, ram, very easy, amazing. The new 3.2Ghz Dell's we have are a mess inside when one opens the case.
Firing it up , i noticed that the fans were rather quiet, but with the side panel off, they seemed to pick up speed. I kept it on my desk for the afternoon and had lots of coworkers stop in to take a peek.
Apple has a winner with this puppy.
Rich
Firing it up , i noticed that the fans were rather quiet, but with the side panel off, they seemed to pick up speed. I kept it on my desk for the afternoon and had lots of coworkers stop in to take a peek.
Apple has a winner with this puppy.
Rich
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I hate to ask this but does the OS have a "snappy" feel to it?
Do any apps run faster on it than a G4 (I'm assuming you've used a recent model G4.)
Congrats on the new machines.
Re comparison: Anything memory intensive. With the faster bus, these things should fly with regards to the old G4 towers.
Cheers,
John
Originally posted by richcigar
It's really clean inside, to bad apple didn't have a window or clear side panel.
You can safely remove the aluminum side panel, as long as you keep the clear plastic in place. So there is in fact an optional window.
wow thats awesome, your first 3 posts on ai, talking about that you got a G5! your off to a good start
Originally posted by craig12co
Also, you say the keyboard was slightly different than the eMac one. How? And for the love of God, what color?!?!?!
If he's pullng this out of his ass, I WILL HUNT HIM DOWN AND DESTROY HIM. GOOD GOD, ELABORATE!
Originally posted by MacsRGood4U
There is a story, somewhere, that says the G5 will slow down and fans used more often if you don't keep the clear plastic inner thingee attached. It helps to cool the innards. I think it's ok to remove the alum. cover though.
Well, there's this from Apple's support pages.
Originally posted by craig12co
Also, you say the keyboard was slightly different than the eMac one. How? And for the love of God, what color?!?!?!
?? He said: similar to the new emac keyboard
There is no way I could have just ran it through the set up and let it sit on my desk all day for gawkers to appreciate.
Guess we will see....