“Yesterday, I had an hour to work with Apple Computer Inc.’s new Power Mac Quad G5, and for anyone in the broadcast, sciences, music, print and photography industries, I have some advice: Place your orders now! The latest Power Mac, unveiled last month and now shipping in limited quantities, offers substantial architecture improvements over its predecessor that deliver exponential performance increases — depending on the application being used or function performed. In addition to the use of dual dual-core G5 processors, the underlying upgrades are numerous,” Yuval Kossovsky writes for Computerworld.
“The improvements in speed in the new hardware are dramatic. My After Effects projects ran more than 60% faster compared with the Power Mac G5 with dual 2.5-GHz processors, and Apple says that X-Code compiling is nearly 80% faster than on earlier models. Final Cut Pro standard-definition rendering yielded results that were 50% faster for me compared to the dual 2.5-GHz machine,” Kossovsky writes. “The pricing on this machine is up from the previous dual-2.7-GHz models, but it’s a bargain when considering the additional processor cores — and the fact that a comparable Wintel configuration is almost double the cost. There is no reason for any professional facility not to upgrade because the equipment cost will quickly be recouped in the form of higher productivity and the ability to serve more clients faster. And if that doesn’t get you excited, just try Final Cut Pro, Aperture or rendering out a 3-D molecule on this machine. I guarantee you’ll love it!”
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I can’t wait to win the Lottery, cause I want one with 4G of ram and the Quadro4500.
I am sooooo excited, I am looking everywhere for a project that will cover the $7K I need for my set up.
man oh man.
As Intel said, the future of computing is about virtualization. This mean, we will speak in terms of global power of my mac not how mny processors my mac have. So we can divide this power. One partition will have 0,3 of the global power, another 0,5, etc… we can even virtualize disks, ethernet, etc.
We can configure one partition as a virtual I/O server for other partitions. Every partition can have a different OS.