Careful. You will fall in love at first sight and touch. I had my first encounter in Santa Clara CA last night. You will never go back. It is positively mind altering.
WAAAHOOOO! Just went to my CompUSA- they now have a 1.6GHz G5 w/ 20"!
All I have to say is this thing is huge! Yeah- its big, but nice to look at.
I checked out some of the specs in the system profiler and it says it has a sony superdrive- which I would assume would be the one that does all formats of DVD-R or DVD+R.
They really didn't have anything on it though to play around with performance- anything seems really fast compaired to my 500MHz iBook.
Apple Store Southdale (suburban Minneapolis) has one G5 1.6 on the floor. I played with it this morning. The case is an impressive technical achievement.
Hard to tell how fast it is. I brought an audio CD, and ripped it into iTunes, 128k AAC. It ripped the first track at 11.5x, and the last track at 20x - it spent most of its time ripping at about 16x.
The G5 1.6 absolutely ate iMovie 3 alive. Instantaneous Ken Burns effect, very responsive. No indication of any hiccup or slowdown in any aspect of iMovie.
I haven't spent a lot of time with a dual 1.42 G4, but I wouldn't dispute those who claim that the single 1.6 G5 is as faster or faster than the dual G4.
San Diego Apple Store has a 1.6GHz that you can get your grimey hands all over. Very nice machine, but a lot bigger (taller) and whiter that I thought it would be.
Apple store in SoHo has a 1.8 and a 1.6 on display to play with. I put up the scores on XBench and they came out surprisingly low... I wonder why. (Yes, i made sure nothing else was running)
Apple Store in Milwaukee WI has a 1.6 On display AND a few in stock!! They also have a 1.8 in the back that they will be putting on display in the next day or so. Pretty cool!!
Holy jerkface Palo Alto employee chastised me for downloading and running PSBench and XBench on the G5. Then he wouldn't let me upload the results to my computer.
Posting now from The Grove. One 1.8 on display, no stock of any models.
Some quick random observations:
iDVD 3 is almost silky smooth on this machine. Dragging in and free positioning QuickTime clips is very acceptable, an action that routinely brings my 1GHz TiBook to its knees.
The Serial ATA hard drive connectors are built into the mounting brackets! Just push the drive in and snap the little black tabs in position and you're done! I assumed the new thin S-ATA cables would be tethered in those little pinch holders like AirPort cables. Drives are rotated 90 degrees so the back of the drive faces you with the door open.
Build quality is off the charts. A small group of PC guys was drooling over it.
I'm waiting for a rev. B myself, but I'm very impressed in person. It's gorgeous.
Holy jerkface Palo Alto employee chastised me for downloading and running PSBench and XBench on the G5. Then he wouldn't let me upload the results to my computer.
I used to, but I frequent the place so often, most of them practically know me. The thing is, with an unrestricted administrator account and broadband, they should expect people to download apps and run them.
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Originally posted by duncantang
I have never seen a PowerMac G5
Careful. You will fall in love at first sight and touch. I had my first encounter in Santa Clara CA last night. You will never go back. It is positively mind altering.
All I have to say is this thing is huge! Yeah- its big, but nice to look at.
I checked out some of the specs in the system profiler and it says it has a sony superdrive- which I would assume would be the one that does all formats of DVD-R or DVD+R.
They really didn't have anything on it though to play around with performance- anything seems really fast compaired to my 500MHz iBook.
Hard to tell how fast it is. I brought an audio CD, and ripped it into iTunes, 128k AAC. It ripped the first track at 11.5x, and the last track at 20x - it spent most of its time ripping at about 16x.
The G5 1.6 absolutely ate iMovie 3 alive. Instantaneous Ken Burns effect, very responsive. No indication of any hiccup or slowdown in any aspect of iMovie.
I haven't spent a lot of time with a dual 1.42 G4, but I wouldn't dispute those who claim that the single 1.6 G5 is as faster or faster than the dual G4.
'G5 Coming Soon.' Yeah. I get that.
Sigh.
American penis envy have I.
Still, another couple of weeks and everything should be in place.
I can't wait to try out the dual 2 gigger on Photoshop!
Patience young lemon...your time will come...and then my pips will explode everywhere!!!
Lemon Bon Bon
(As of 8-26-2003)
Joe
Some quick random observations:
iDVD 3 is almost silky smooth on this machine. Dragging in and free positioning QuickTime clips is very acceptable, an action that routinely brings my 1GHz TiBook to its knees.
The Serial ATA hard drive connectors are built into the mounting brackets! Just push the drive in and snap the little black tabs in position and you're done! I assumed the new thin S-ATA cables would be tethered in those little pinch holders like AirPort cables. Drives are rotated 90 degrees so the back of the drive faces you with the door open.
Build quality is off the charts. A small group of PC guys was drooling over it.
I'm waiting for a rev. B myself, but I'm very impressed in person. It's gorgeous.
Holy jerkface Palo Alto employee chastised me for downloading and running PSBench and XBench on the G5. Then he wouldn't let me upload the results to my computer.
Did you ask permission?
Originally posted by MacsRGood4U
Did you ask permission?
I used to, but I frequent the place so often, most of them practically know me. The thing is, with an unrestricted administrator account and broadband, they should expect people to download apps and run them.