What do we need the G5 for? Ummmm....to compete with AMD and Intel CPUs that power Wintel boxes! WTF, are you blind and deaf? Have you been living in a cave? Apple is getting their asses whupped on a daily basis in every new benchmark/bake-off test that puts Apple's all-mighty powermacs up against even OLD x86 CPUs!!
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It only hurts cause it's true, the good news is there's always fantasy, the bad news is it doesn't help.
I've been a loyal mac supporter all my life but my new comp in june wont be a mac. I've given up hope on Apple until I see the G5, and hopefully by then it wont be too late.
with 133Mhz bus (must get rid of 100mhz bus pathetic) would prefer 266 DDR but 133 may work plus it has been so cheap. At least 256. No apple computer should ship with less than 256Mb and even that is stretching it.
PowerMac G4
G4- 1.2 1.4 and dual 1.2
266 DDR with max at 2 Gigs (512MB installed low end)
Geforce 4 Mx
Gigawire
-Lower price points-
Later in the Fall-May be more appropriate Jaguar would be out. G5 could develope a little bit longer but not so long that they fall behind PC's.
PowerMac G5
Dual 1.4
Dual 1.6
Quad 1.4
333 DDR
Rapid IO
Hypertransport (I don't know where this would fit in with Rapid IO)
Gigawire
1GB min end- maximum up to 6GB or so Ram
All RAID
PowerMac G5 takes over starting at $3200
PowerMac G4 decrease in price again upper $2500
That is all. I really put this down because I am craving for a expandable but still fast computer at the lower end. iMac not for me and PowerMac is overpriced.
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What do we need the G5 for? Ummmm....to compete with AMD and Intel CPUs that power Wintel boxes! WTF, are you blind and deaf? Have you been living in a cave? Apple is getting their asses whupped on a daily basis in every new benchmark/bake-off test that puts Apple's all-mighty powermacs up against even OLD x86 CPUs!!
It only hurts cause it's true, the good news is there's always fantasy, the bad news is it doesn't help.
I've been a loyal mac supporter all my life but my new comp in june wont be a mac. I've given up hope on Apple until I see the G5, and hopefully by then it wont be too late.
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2x1,4 ghz
512 mb ram
100 gb hd
266 fsb/bus
ddr
gf4 mx
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This is all good, except that GF4 MX. It needs at least a GF4 Ti, if not a GF5 (or whatever they will call it)
Somewhat reasonable I would think.
MWNY
iMac
Bump up speed to 800 and 1Ghz or 933
with 133Mhz bus (must get rid of 100mhz bus pathetic) would prefer 266 DDR but 133 may work plus it has been so cheap. At least 256. No apple computer should ship with less than 256Mb and even that is stretching it.
PowerMac G4
G4- 1.2 1.4 and dual 1.2
266 DDR with max at 2 Gigs (512MB installed low end)
Geforce 4 Mx
Gigawire
-Lower price points-
Later in the Fall-May be more appropriate Jaguar would be out. G5 could develope a little bit longer but not so long that they fall behind PC's.
PowerMac G5
Dual 1.4
Dual 1.6
Quad 1.4
333 DDR
Rapid IO
Hypertransport (I don't know where this would fit in with Rapid IO)
Gigawire
1GB min end- maximum up to 6GB or so Ram
All RAID
PowerMac G5 takes over starting at $3200
PowerMac G4 decrease in price again upper $2500
That is all. I really put this down because I am craving for a expandable but still fast computer at the lower end. iMac not for me and PowerMac is overpriced.
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Mes plus humbles excuses grand Doc
Merci