“Is it absurd to spend $2,500 on a desktop computer? Well, that depends on who you are and what you want to do. If, like me, you are an Apple Macintosh fan, the $2,500 invested in a dual-processor Power Mac G5, with the CPU chips running at 1.8 GHz is not a totally bad idea,” Mark Kellner reports for The Washington Times.
“The Power PC G5 chip, introduced to much fanfare last year, is a 64-bit processor and delivers what Apple calls ‘an exponential increase’ in the machine’s computing power,” Kellner reports. “The 64-bit PowerPC G5 processor architecture lets the Power Mac G5 handle more tasks more quickly, as well as support up to 8GB of main memory
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Cicadas? Dang! Thought those were the neighbors’ PCs.
You were three minutes earlier ‘coz I read the full article.
“Cicadas? Dang! Thought those were the neighbors’ PCs.”
The neighbors PCs sound more like chainsaws to me.
What many seem to forget about the G5 is that most apps and the current OS are not fully, or sometimes at all, 64-bit aware. As Apple and others tap into the full power of the 970 chip those already with G5 Macs will see speed improve. The 970 is not about parity with the P4, it is the future. Heat issues have finally caught up with Intel.
My wet dream is Quad G5
Ooohhh….
will be back later…
Mine is a quad of Finnish girls.
Mine is a quad of Finnish girls.
lol that would finnish me off
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3 french bitches would suit me sir.
That RAM isn’t cheap! A G5 with a substantial addition of RAM is much more than $2500.
HeeHeeHee! Good one LiM! That’s right up there for one of the best retorts on MDN…
..and blow the RAM Hg Wells!
I can’t help you with the four Finnish girls or the three french bitches, but how about 2 rotten ass-clowns? Enderle and Thurott are always for sale–cheap.
I dont like that he compared prices with a single? cpu PC. He should have compared the dual G5 with a dual Xeon or a Dual Opteron. That way the price comparison would have been more fair. the G5 is a professional workstation, not a home computer.
“My test unit of the Power Mac G5 boasts a little less than 8GB of RAM, but it certainly has enough to handle my daily needs.”
Chrissakes, what’s this guy trying to do, split atoms? Yeah, I think 8 GB of RAM is probably just barely enough to squeak by for his daily needs.
I can’t concentrate on this….I still have the quote “superior Dell DJ” racing through my head……
“Enderle and Thurott are always for sale–cheap.” – jfbiii
Nope, they’ve been bought and paid for by Microsoft. Unless you can outbid Uncle Gates, they are his.
“Little Joe never once gave it away…everybody had to pay and pay.”
It doesn’t matter whether you pay a whore $5 or $1M, whatever money you hand them paid for the sex you just had. The next time you want a “favor,” you have to pay again.
“I dont like that he compared prices with a single? cpu PC. He should have compared the dual G5 with a dual Xeon or a Dual Opteron. That way the price comparison would have been more fair. the G5 is a professional workstation, not a home computer.”
No kidding. My IT guy just bought me a dual 1.8g G5 – which by the way is still sitting in the box and has been for over two weeks because “the IT department has to set it up first.” Not that the IT department knows ANYTHING about Macs, but whatever. – When we were talking about getting it he mentioned that “Macs are better than Windows at graphics, but Windows is getting so close that there was getting to be less and less of a reason to buy the expensive Mac.” The irony here is that at the same time he purchased two dual Xeons for NLEs that cost nearly twice as much as the G5, but it’s the Mac that’s overpriced. That makes a lot of sense! </sarcasm>
I just got my G5 a couple of weeks ago, and I gotta tell ya folks, This author is dead on! My Dual 1.8Ghz G5 just screams, and it’s only running 512Mb Ram thus far. It will be upgraded as time goes by, rest assured. But for now, it more than exceeds my needs, and I don’t think I’ll need to buy another computer for the next 5 or 6 years, hands down.
I thank GOD that Apple made the G5. It is one sweet machine. Dare I say, ‘sexy’?
Jon Bendtsen, while the computer is “designed” for pros, there are many home users that use G5s as their main Mac… I am included in this list. I have the G5 because I am inpatient and do not want to wait any longer then I have to while rendering iMovies, I like games to play nicely on my Mac (i know, i know…. get an xBox, PS2 or GayCube…. I have the gaycube… but i still like playing games on my mac too!) and it seems you cannot have a fast enough Mac if you are using iPhoto… even version 4 (iLife version).
My 1.6 has 1.25 GBs RAM, and it was not that expensive (as long as you bought it before the RAM prices went through the roof). I think my (2) 512 chips were 90 bucks each. Kingston RAM at that… you just have to look around.
The Dude abides man… the Dude abides.
READ: THIS MAKES MACS LOOK EXPENSIVE. PEOPLE STILL CONVINCED MACS OVERPRICED.
I own a Mac and am reminded of why I bought one every day. I say this article is a backhanded compliment though.
You can easily find a desktop well over $2,500 from Dell online. Are they worth the price? Absolutely NOT!!!! You and build a clone with better performance with one-third the price!!! If PC users want brand names and they have to pay the price, just like any consumer product. But NO, they bitch about Apple’s prices and don’t want to pay a penny more for their cheap Gateway or cheap e-machine ! They are full of irony!!!
I’d like to watch the Finnish and French girls together. I wonder if the former talk like Mika Hakkinen?
> boasts a little less than 8GB of RAM, but it certainly has enough to handle my daily needs
Yes, that fragment leaves a weird aftertaste.
Yes, 8 gigs. How much does that really cost?
The base 1.8 dual costs $2500, a good deal.
Ramp up to 8 gigs, and the Apple store subtotal is now…….
$7,149!!!!
Crucial brand aftermarket ram would bring the total to $5620
If some windows guy wrote such an article with such disregard for, or ignorance of, facts, or arithmetic, he would be roasted until crispy here. Typical macophile hypocrisy.