Ok guys, half an hour ago i was playing with a new G5 on a product demo here in Portugal.
All I can say is... WOW!!!! Im really amazed with this new machine. The touch of it its awsome and the design is something really out of this world. The photos on the apple website dont make it enough justice. Taking out the cover is easy and the inside of the machine is outstanding! Those heatsinks are a work of art! Taking out the fans is easy as well, you just need to pull them off.
Now for the tests... The machine was a Dual G5 with 1GB of RAM running 10.2.7(of course). It didnt had internet so i couldnt get some bench tools to try it on, but i did some common benchs. Boot up time was 51 seconds, from Chime to working Dock and Finder. Photoshop took 3 bounces to open on a cold start and it was photoshop 7.01, so it wasnt ready for the G5. Finder search or anything you do on the finder is fast, when i say fast im comparing it to my QuickSilver Dual G4 1Ghz. Resizing windows was excelent.
The G5 had FCP 4 on it and all i can say that i was amazed with it, both the software and the hardware performance. Its fast doing the LiveType renders on some complex stuff.
A friend of mine that was with me, is a photoshop geek, so he runned the PS benchmarks of is own. Radial blurs after radial blurs the machine hanged in there fast, taking both processors to the max for several minutes. You could hear the fans starting to blow a bit stronger, with all the effort that it was making. Oh, yeah, the sound of the machine is almost not hearable. Im used to constant fans, but this PM sure isnt constant at all. Its always adjusting the fan speeds to the inside temperature. But fear not, you cant hear a damn thing until the sucker goes to the max! And... Its still damn quiet! My Quicksilver is noisier, much noisier! Jonathan Ive really deserves congratulations on this one! You can feel the heat coming out of the back, it really blows a lot heat, but the fans remain quiet. Its amazing.
On Multitasking... well, we had photoshop doing a Radial Blur on a big file and we opened all the apps on the dock ( FCP 4, iDVD, iTunes, Safari, Lightwave, Quark 6, Address book, etc) and there wasnt a performance hit at all! If the machine did that with only 1GB of RAM i can only imagine the behaviour of that beast with 8GB of RAM.
In conclusion: This is one hardcore PowerMac!! I think that the only thing that its holding its legs is the software, even the OS! Its beatifully designed, its quiet, its awsome just to stare at the insides of it, its easy to expand (taking the HD out takes 10 seconds and the same amount of time to put one in) and its fast, very fast! With Panther that "kick ass" Powermac will fly! Its a machine that I advise to all Power users, but you make sure to get a lot of RAM, those G5's are hungry!
I dont know what more can I say, its already 2:27 AM here, so if you have any questions please feel free to make them. I'll try to post some photos later.
Photos: http://www.iclub.com.pt/art_pmg5_live.html
All I can say is... WOW!!!! Im really amazed with this new machine. The touch of it its awsome and the design is something really out of this world. The photos on the apple website dont make it enough justice. Taking out the cover is easy and the inside of the machine is outstanding! Those heatsinks are a work of art! Taking out the fans is easy as well, you just need to pull them off.
Now for the tests... The machine was a Dual G5 with 1GB of RAM running 10.2.7(of course). It didnt had internet so i couldnt get some bench tools to try it on, but i did some common benchs. Boot up time was 51 seconds, from Chime to working Dock and Finder. Photoshop took 3 bounces to open on a cold start and it was photoshop 7.01, so it wasnt ready for the G5. Finder search or anything you do on the finder is fast, when i say fast im comparing it to my QuickSilver Dual G4 1Ghz. Resizing windows was excelent.
The G5 had FCP 4 on it and all i can say that i was amazed with it, both the software and the hardware performance. Its fast doing the LiveType renders on some complex stuff.
A friend of mine that was with me, is a photoshop geek, so he runned the PS benchmarks of is own. Radial blurs after radial blurs the machine hanged in there fast, taking both processors to the max for several minutes. You could hear the fans starting to blow a bit stronger, with all the effort that it was making. Oh, yeah, the sound of the machine is almost not hearable. Im used to constant fans, but this PM sure isnt constant at all. Its always adjusting the fan speeds to the inside temperature. But fear not, you cant hear a damn thing until the sucker goes to the max! And... Its still damn quiet! My Quicksilver is noisier, much noisier! Jonathan Ive really deserves congratulations on this one! You can feel the heat coming out of the back, it really blows a lot heat, but the fans remain quiet. Its amazing.
On Multitasking... well, we had photoshop doing a Radial Blur on a big file and we opened all the apps on the dock ( FCP 4, iDVD, iTunes, Safari, Lightwave, Quark 6, Address book, etc) and there wasnt a performance hit at all! If the machine did that with only 1GB of RAM i can only imagine the behaviour of that beast with 8GB of RAM.
In conclusion: This is one hardcore PowerMac!! I think that the only thing that its holding its legs is the software, even the OS! Its beatifully designed, its quiet, its awsome just to stare at the insides of it, its easy to expand (taking the HD out takes 10 seconds and the same amount of time to put one in) and its fast, very fast! With Panther that "kick ass" Powermac will fly! Its a machine that I advise to all Power users, but you make sure to get a lot of RAM, those G5's are hungry!
I dont know what more can I say, its already 2:27 AM here, so if you have any questions please feel free to make them. I'll try to post some photos later.
Photos: http://www.iclub.com.pt/art_pmg5_live.html
