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Apple Releases Dual Core PowerMac G5s

SiliconAddict said:
VERY nice updates but why no 6800 GPU's?!?!
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Because the 7800 GT is better? :)

Graphics Options

From the tech spec page (store doesn't list all options yet)...

Graphics and displays
16-lane PCI Express graphics slot with one of the following graphics cards installed:
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE with 128MB of GDDR SDRAM, one single-link DVI port, and one dual-link DVI port
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 with 256MB of GDDR SDRAM, one single-link DVI port, and one dual-link DVI port
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT with 256MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, one single-link DVI port, and one dual-link DVI port (build-to-order option)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 with 512MB of GDDR3 SDRAM, two dual-link DVI ports, and one stereo 3D port (build-to-order option; occupies 16-lane PCI Express slot and adjacent PCI Express slot)
 
No 2ghz Powerbook?
No 1.9ghz Powerbook?
No 1.8ghz Powerbook?
No 1.7ghz Powerbook?
No G5 Powerbook?
No Freescale Dual-Core Powerbook?

Barnacles! :(
 
itswoody said:
Goddammit I'm so pissed right now...saved up for months to buy a Dual 2.7 Ghz Power Mac back in April (although it took a whole month to arrive but that's another story) thinking it would last...and now this a few months later. Apple have screwed me and many others again....70% performance advantage over yesterdays "top of the line" mac!!! But still we buy their products! If you're listening Jobs, offer to buy mine back and give me a mega discount on a quad, that will make me happy. :mad: :eek: :mad: :eek: :p
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This is the story of buying computers, my friend. There will always be something better for less money in the future; it's really only a matter of degree.

Just don't think about it and thoroughly enjoy your dual 2.7 G5, a great machine many people would envy being able to have.
 
So is the quad mac liquid cooled? Is any new powermac liquid cooled? Has Apple officially nixed that idea?

Sorry.. my employer blocks the IP to Apple... I can't get access to these answers.

:)
 
rolandf said:
The top-end machines seems nice, although not enough pre-installed memory. But what is not workstation like, are the hard-drives
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Not these days. Sun, and other workstation vendors, are shipping workstations with SATA drives standard, and have been shipping ATA drives in workstations for several years at their low end.
 
Quad

The Quad 2.5 sounds AMAZING :eek:
4MB L2 cache compared to the 1MB L2 cache from the dual 2.7 OMFG!!!!!!11 :p
But I'd wonder who buys the dualcore 2.3? If you're strapped on your money you'd buy the entry dual 2.0. But If you have a little more to spend, why not save a little more and go for the Quad?
 
If you really expected to see a G5 powerBook, I suggest you come back down from Lala land, into the real world.

Freescale dual core G4 processors aren't ready yet...

MikeAtari said:
No 2ghz Powerbook?
No 1.9ghz Powerbook?
No 1.8ghz Powerbook?
No 1.7ghz Powerbook?
No G5 Powerbook?
No Freescale Dual-Core Powerbook?

Barnacles! :(
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You know, $25,000 for a fully specced PM with dual 30" monitors is ridiculous, but I just did the same for a dual dual-core Xeon Dell Precision workstation with two 24" monitors, and it comes to $33,000.
 
rossoUK said:
Ok how long before this is seconded to the Intel macs? 6 months? I'm temped on the Quad mutha but I'll wait patiently till the switch over. BTW where can one find technical specification on the new powermacs? My apple site wont refresh?? :confused:
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Power Mac using Intel processors are at LEAST one year away more likely 1.5 years given Intel's processor road map.
 
QCassidy352 said:
can i just ask the guy whose church had a dual 2.7 stolen... what does a church do with a top of the line dual G5?? :eek: ;)
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A number of churches these days record their services and edit/author them. As well, sometimes, at the church I volunteered at, they used their PowerMac for editing video together for presentation during services sometimes.
 
Dont Hurt Me said:
The Quad is very interesting and new but the rest are Lame, Apple has removed two chips for one and same goes for the Cooling system so where is the beef? Sure this is cheaper for Apple to make but what did the consumer get that the older models didnt offer. All of these updates really go to show the problems apple is having with the CPU makers IBM/Motoscale.
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Other than PCI-Express, better graphics, support for more (and ECC) memory, more optional mass storage, ...?
 
cr2sh said:
So is the quad mac liquid cooled? Is any new powermac liquid cooled? Has Apple officially nixed that idea?
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I think they all are liquid cooled. It sure looks like the radiator grill in the images of the system.

MacTruck said:
So let me get this straight. My $500 Radeon XT 800 video card won't work in this new quad powermac?
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If it is AGP based then nope, no way. The new systems are PCIe based.
 
itswoody said:
I never complained that Apple doesn't update quickly enough, I just stated that this new quad, whilst great for Apple and for the future of the Power Mac comes only after having mine for 4 months which makes me feel sick!!! I mean you could have bought a dual 2.7 ghz yesterday and now this! Then you'd be sick too. Doesn't seem fair really...to reiterate, if Apple, or some other reputable firm offered a part exchange system I'd use it!
;)
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And upon carefully reading my original posting, you would conclude that I never said that you were the one complaining about Apple not updating their products quickly enough...that was a general statement to all those people out there that say this. You are just the one that complains when they update something.
 
devman said:
Geez, 4 months is like forever these days. Anyway.... you've had use of that system for 4 months now. What price do you put on that? And your 70% faster comment applies to the quad which costs more than the dual2.7 did.
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Yes, and on top of that, it will only be faster for some things (such as rendering).

I would suspect that someone who does not work at all with video editing, animation, or very large graphics files would notice no difference between a dual 2.7 and a quad 2.5.
 
kalisphoenix said:
My birthday is tomorrow and my wedding is in about 3.5 weeks. Any takers?
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I can probably take your fiance off your hands, anyway. Dunno about the birthday, I already have enough of those.
 
Great updates, but think I will keep my Rev A Dual 2Ghz until the Mactels hit, just hope they keep most of these cool updates eg: 16Gb DDR Ram/PCIe ect...)

Still would like to see a 2nd optical drive at some point and even frontrow incorporated in to the deal :)
 
shawnce said:
I think they all are liquid cooled. It sure looks like the radiator grill in the images of the system.
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Someone else said NONE are liquid-cooled anymore. What's the truth?

I see no cooling info on the official pages anymore.
 
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