Powermac G5 size

Not upon my first site of the Powermac G5 however when i opened it up and put it in my room. All i said was "**** this thing is huge"

Not at first, but when transporting it in my small two door convertible (my only car, a Fiat Barchetta) when going to friends for a LAN party. This monster doesn't fit in my car! Doesn't fit in the boot (is only 40 x 40 cm), so I have to cramp it behind the passenger seat and put my 20" old Apple CRT on the seat. It just fits.

yeah my first words when i got my dual power was F*** that is one big mumma

It barely fit in my Honda Civic.

It does get loud when it is working hard. I usually keep the processor performance to "Automatic" unless I am doing heavy-duty graphics work - seems to help with the fan noise.

The PC I had when I got my G5 was just as big, so I wasn't surprised. When I opened it up though I was like "Holy **** that heat sink is big!" lol

it is quite large, though not abnormally so. I guess I'm unique in that I thought it was very quiet, though I only run in 'Reduced' mode

My first G5 (a single 1.8GHz) was very quiet. After that I have only had duals and they are much louder, obviously.

I was surprised by the size of the machine but I was more surprised by its weight. It should come with its own dolly.

I just wish with its size came more "official" SATA 3.5 drive bays.

trogdor! said:

I just wish with its size came more "official" SATA 3.5 drive bays.

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I bet the Intel Power Macs get redesigned. The main reason for the current layout is to effectively control heat output from the G5's. Since the Conroe chips should be much more efficient, Apple should have more room for internal drives and the like.

I had my first visit at the mac store about a week ago. While I was specifically looking at the mbp's, I looked at everything. And that powermac just looked huge to me too! It looked like it weighted more than I do!

trogdor! said:

I just wish with its size came more "official" SATA 3.5 drive bays.

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I got my G5 in December so by that point I had seen many G5s (even dad had had a few by then) but when I first set it up, I was still surprised at how much bigger it was than my old Sawtooth G4. It wouldn't fit in my CPU tower piece of furniture (piece of my desk basically). I had to throw the desk in the basement and for the first time ever run the computer simply sitting on the floor. It's mainly quite a biut taller than the G4 was, but I think it's also significantly deeper.

As trogdor mentioned, though, it's annoying to only be able to fit 2 drives in there. I have the original 250GB drive sitting on a shelf since I installed two Maxtors.

topgunn said:

I was surprised by the size of the machine but I was more surprised by its weight. It should come with its own dolly.

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Yeah...Got mine last December and had a tough time cramming it into my Mit. Eclipse! Not to mention the weight!

Though huge and heavy, the G5 rocks in performance!

And Heavy! The aluminum is nice, but man, it weighs a ton.

eva01 said:

Not upon my first site of the Powermac G5 however when i opened it up and put it in my room. All i said was "**** this thing is huge"

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Speaking of size, I had a hard time getting my 30" ACD home in my 350Z - it comes in a HUGE box - had to get creative with the seat arrangements. The G5 came from Apple directly so I never had to take it in the car, but if I had tried to buy the G5 and ACD at a store, there's no way I could have gotten both home in one trip in the Z.

Why? And what do you do that reduced mode is adequate? Reduced mode on my iMac G5 2.1GHz w/2.5GB RAM is unusable. Automatic is annoying, but workable. High is the only way I can get work done.

kwajo.com said:

it is quite large, though not abnormally so. I guess I'm unique in that I thought it was very quiet, though I only run in 'Reduced' mode

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kwajo.com said:

it is quite large, though not abnormally so. I guess I'm unique in that I thought it was very quiet, though I only run in 'Reduced' mode

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Why in the world would you drop the money for a PowerMac G5 and run it in reduced when you could have probably just gotten an iMac and leave it on automatic for the same speed.

Some_Big_Spoon said:

And Heavy! The aluminum is nice, but man, it weighs a ton.

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The aluminum may make the Power Mac G5 a tad on the heavy side, but I would not have it any other way.