Apple’s new Power Mac G5 achieves all these personal computer firsts, reports Greg Thom for The Herald Sun:
– World’s fastest desktop computer.
– First desktop to include a 64-bit processor.
– Industry’s first 1GHz front-side bus.
– Highest bandwidth system controller.
– Fastest PCI interface on a desktop (133MHz).
“‘The 64-bit revolution has begun and the personal computer will never be the same again,’ Apple CEO Steve Jobs says. So Intel, the world’s largest computer chip manufacturer, is quaking in its boots, right? Not so, according to computer trends analyst Andy Woo, of research company Gartner Australasia. Though most people will drool over a machine such as the G5, the extra power is simply not needed by the average user. There’s more than enough grunt in an Intel P4 machine to do most tasks,” Thom reports.
“‘It is really interesting, from an Apple perspective, that they have beaten others in getting 64-bit computing in a desktop,’ Woo says. ‘The question is, what do users, both in business area and at home, need with that sort of power?’ Woo says what the Apple announcement does do is reinforce its image as a ground-breaking outfit at the leading edge of innovation. ‘It plays to their strengths, like marketing, design and user-interface. They have always had a leading-edge image,’ Woo says. ‘But is Intel rattled by this announcement? Absolutely not,'” Thom writes.
Thom reports, “Woo feels the G5 will reinforce Apple’s strength in its core customer areas such as graphic design and video editing. ‘But few users need that power and speed. This will not worry Intel at all in the desktop space.'”
Full article here.
Oh, and MasonMcD the trolling comment is not a shot at you, your correction to my post was not out of hand. Just wanted to make that clear.
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I agree that the Pentium has plenty of “GRUNT” left. It just grunts along and grunts some more while the G5 and OSX will “purrrrrrrrrr.”
“He should get his prices straight, the top of the line is 2999.00, 3500.00 with 19” flat sony .
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Its in Australian dollars.. jeeeezz
“Sad one minded unable to think for themselves maggots. Has macdailynews decided to pick up the Apple fan-boy flag where macnetv2 dropped it?”
This coming from a Windowze using moron who has nothing better to do with his life than to hang out on Macintosh web sites?
Credibility = ZERO
dear dumbass
point was taken already read the posts before you jump
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Intel does have a 64 bit chip… It’s called Itanium, and it sucks, so they sweep it’s stats under the rug…
Hmmm… Macs just went from being “not fast enough” to “too fast.” An interesting spin.
INTEL chips are built using an architecture that is at least 25 years old (SISC), they have had heat problems for quite some time and the design is running out of legs. The standard for Apple, IBM, and Moto (RISC) had 64 and 32 bit capabilities designed in from the git go, and date to the early 90’s. Power PC CPU’s run much cooler than the older wintels for a given MGHZ since they run several operations on one clock pulse, Intel and AMD run one operation. M$ is going to have one hell of a time changing over to 64 bit in a hurry. Multiply times several 100 the problems that Apple had switching over to Unix and thats what M$ faces. INTEL and AMD need a whole new design (no head room to grow) and it won’t happen overnight.
If Woo suggested that Intel wasnt “rattled” because Apple only has 2.3% of the worldwide market, I would have to agree. But to say that a PRO machine, duh! is too fast for consumers is absolute nonesense!. I would be and its very simple, just look at computing history will tell you that apps will no doubt demand any increases in computing power. The PRO machine is directed at predominantly creative apps that do indeed NEED this level of performance, but do you think a 16 yr old pimply geek with wealthy parents would not buy this a gamers powerhouse, hell yeh!
‘The question is, what do users, both in business area and at home, need with that sort of power?’
Bill Gates once said something similar…. funny man, Mister Woo. When Intel has 64 bits “on the desktop”, they will say that you really need it. (probably because the apps won’t work with the old CPUs anymore)
First of all let me just say that I use both mac and pc’s…trying to say that one is better than the other is stupid! In the past, I was working with Maya, Lightwave on a pc workstation…these programs weren’t even available on the mac 2 years ago! (btw…yeah…you can never render fast enough…there is no question processing speed is the biggest drawback right now in the 3D animation industry)
Did you guys see Ed catmull from Pixar in the intro video for the g5? What Ed forgot to mention was that pixar is 100% intel!
The 64bit hype is kind of a none issue to me…since most 64bit apps right now are server apps…
on the other hand the frontside bus on the g4 was a hell of a bottleneck….so I’m definitely excited about the bus speeds of the g5s…In my opinion, the combination of the new processor, advancements in frontside bus and ram scalability + serial ata hard drives and 8x agp are definitly performance superboosters..but don’t fool yourself…hit that render button and your cpu’s are pegging the 100% mark…the faster the better…period.
Currently 90% of my work is graphic design….ever walked in to a service bureau with a pc files, pc fonts etc…?
Macs dominate that area of the market and being a designer on a pc is a handycap…your going against the flow.
Superdisks could hold up more space that zips and were smaller…but everybody used zip…became the standard…same thing with betamac and vhs…beatmac is superior.
conclusion…my next comp….is the G5 because it is ideal for my need…I’d much rather build my own superpowerfull pc and save buckssss…..trust me…don’t be a snob with your metallic tower casing…and yes…crt’s calibrate better than those super trendy lcd’s….see what I’m saying.