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3 Years Later : Power Mac vs. Mac Pro , What Do You Prefer
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Mac Pro... it makes me sound powerful using the computer, rather than me using a powerful computer! 
I have the last rev dual core G5, but I know for a fact the Mac Pros are better. A friend of mine bought one when they came out and I've used it- great machine.
However, my G5 is still awesome and I plan to keep it for some time. The Mac Pros are just too expensive right now.
The G5 is still better at many things like disc burning and video editing, than any Intel laptop I've used so far. That's certainly not to say the Intel laptops are slouches, they're great.
However, my G5 is still awesome and I plan to keep it for some time. The Mac Pros are just too expensive right now.
The G5 is still better at many things like disc burning and video editing, than any Intel laptop I've used so far. That's certainly not to say the Intel laptops are slouches, they're great.
I think that they are talking about the name rather than the computer power. And I think I prefer the Mac Pro name a bit more, although both are fine.
Oh... Well, the names they're called ain't all that important. Though for many readers, the newer name seems to confuse people alot, not just people but Google too! Ever googled for somehting about the MacPro's and get loads of pages for the MacBookPro too?
Ah...you're right. I prefer the old name better then. "Power Mac" is just too damn cool.
Power Mac is better I think. Too many dumbasses confuse MacBook Pro with Mac Pro (probably the same batch of geniuses who say iTouch). Screws up google results, too.
Power Mac.
iMac
PowerBook
iBook.
It made perfect sense, and clearly delineated products.
Power- = good.
i- = consumer toys
Power Mac.
iMac
PowerBook
iBook.
It made perfect sense, and clearly delineated products.
Power- = good.
i- = consumer toys
I prefer PowerMac
In an industry that's constantly changing, it's hard to get any name that has any meaning. Like in the car industry, the names Bugatti and Mercedes have some heritage to them. In the computer industry, the PowerMac title can trace itself back to the Power Macintosh's of the early 90's. The name is half as old as the industry itself...
In an industry that's constantly changing, it's hard to get any name that has any meaning. Like in the car industry, the names Bugatti and Mercedes have some heritage to them. In the computer industry, the PowerMac title can trace itself back to the Power Macintosh's of the early 90's. The name is half as old as the industry itself...
Regardless of naming and regardless of the internal bodyparts I sold to purchase my 8-core Clovertown Mac Pro two years ago, this was not a regrettable decision in the slightest. The machine is two years old now, works like it did the day it came out of the box, and will probably be in commission another two years from now. Hopefully still doing important work even beyond.
(notwithstanding I was sent a completely DOA Mac Pro originally, and the one I have now was the replacement for the dead one).
(notwithstanding I was sent a completely DOA Mac Pro originally, and the one I have now was the replacement for the dead one).
I've never actually called them PowerMac. Always just refer to them as Macs - G4 Macs or G5 Macs, as opposed to G4 or G5 iMacs.
G5 is a better name than Pro in my opinion. G6 would have been cool. I guess the newest ones would be G7s now, even cooler. G7 beats the heck of 'Mac Pro Early 2009' as a name.
They should have stuck with the G-Series. I know G3, G4 and G5 refers to the processor but in most minds it refers to distinct Mac model series. They could have had the G6 Mac with Intel processors and the technicality wouldn't have made a difference to anyone except uber geeks.
PS: With a name like Mac Pro, what's the next model makeover name going to be? What else can you do with 'Mac Pro'? Mac Pro II? Mac Pro Ultra? Mac Pro Pro?
G5 is a better name than Pro in my opinion. G6 would have been cool. I guess the newest ones would be G7s now, even cooler. G7 beats the heck of 'Mac Pro Early 2009' as a name.
They should have stuck with the G-Series. I know G3, G4 and G5 refers to the processor but in most minds it refers to distinct Mac model series. They could have had the G6 Mac with Intel processors and the technicality wouldn't have made a difference to anyone except uber geeks.
PS: With a name like Mac Pro, what's the next model makeover name going to be? What else can you do with 'Mac Pro'? Mac Pro II? Mac Pro Ultra? Mac Pro Pro?
I definitely prefer PowerMac.
However I wish they would go back to the name and number system.
If someone said they had a PowerMac 9600/200MP. You knew it had a dual 604e running at 200mhz, case design and expansion capabilities. Whereas if someone says they have a Mac Pro you have no idea: what CPU is in it, what generation it is, what expansion capabilities does it have. The iMac being the worst offender being you have no clue: what it looks like, what CPU architecture it has, what its expansion capabilities are, or basically any useful information. All you know is that it is a G3 or better and a desktop computer.
This held true for PowerMac G3's, G4's and G5's as well. So they had to be given sub names to at least define the Motherboard generation. With G4's you must say Yikes, Sawtooth, Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio, Quicksilver 2001, Quicksilver 2002, Mirror Drive Door or Firewire 800. With the G5's it is Revision A, Revision B, that one just before last, and dual core.
However I wish they would go back to the name and number system.
If someone said they had a PowerMac 9600/200MP. You knew it had a dual 604e running at 200mhz, case design and expansion capabilities. Whereas if someone says they have a Mac Pro you have no idea: what CPU is in it, what generation it is, what expansion capabilities does it have. The iMac being the worst offender being you have no clue: what it looks like, what CPU architecture it has, what its expansion capabilities are, or basically any useful information. All you know is that it is a G3 or better and a desktop computer.
This held true for PowerMac G3's, G4's and G5's as well. So they had to be given sub names to at least define the Motherboard generation. With G4's you must say Yikes, Sawtooth, Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Audio, Quicksilver 2001, Quicksilver 2002, Mirror Drive Door or Firewire 800. With the G5's it is Revision A, Revision B, that one just before last
, and dual core.What laptop where you using? a 1.83 Ghz macbook? I really don't care about the name as long as it is not horrible like AppleTower G5.
I too prefer "Power Mac". What does "pro" mean anyway? That this Mac is designed for pros, not for amateurs? Every product can be dubbed "-pro", like some "ATi radeon HD187999 XTX PRO Extreme Titanium edition".
And yes, many people confuse "Mac Pro" with "MacBook Pro".
PS. I own a Mac Pro.
And yes, many people confuse "Mac Pro" with "MacBook Pro".
PS. I own a Mac Pro.
Edge PRO GEL
for professional...um, shavers...
That word has been abused so much...but I still prefer Mac Pro, despite the Power Mac G5 sounding like some awesome, complicated piece of machinery, that probably runs on a combination of steam and radon.
You know what? Power Mac G5 for the title.
for professional...um, shavers...
That word has been abused so much...but I still prefer Mac Pro, despite the Power Mac G5 sounding like some awesome, complicated piece of machinery, that probably runs on a combination of steam and radon.
You know what? Power Mac G5 for the title.
I prefer any PPC product over Intel. And PowerMac sounds way better. The PPC made Apple's computers unique and different. THough they did have their problems like getting too hot and not reaching 3 GHz, they are kind of special because the only thing I know of that uses a PPC chip now is the Xbox 360. Nearly forgot to add: The PowerMacs looked a lot better. Now that we've had that aluminum case for so long, it is really boring. The best looking PM, I think, was the MDD and the one right before that.
I did not know that. I knew that it was designed by IBM though. I know of no computer that I can buy now that uses a PPC chip. Is there one?
The xbox 360 is the closest you will get probably, you can "run" OS X on it after all.
REALLY?!
That's friggin' cool. Could that mean I could turn a G5 into a 360? Probably not, all the firmware updates, etc...But yeah. The Cell processor in the PS3 is based off of the power architechture, as well as XBox 360; technically, the 360 uses the Xenon processor, some strange varient of the Cell. Oddly enough, the Wii uses the "Broadway" processor, also made by IBM.
So, on the bright side, IBM has gone from producing powerful computers to powerful consoles. The three major consoles all use the Power architechture... Cell, Xenon, Broadway. Seems to me that there's a monopoly going on
EDIT - Not to rip on Nintendo, but I can't beleive I just inferred the Wii as "powerful".