thatwendigo said:
Learn to read. I said that the problems I listed wouldn't be solved by what you said, and it turned out I was right. Apple had to cut an awful lot of the performance factors of the G5 in order to cram one into a new design (which has a full third more internal volume to help dissipate heat).
Yes, you were right that they could have done that. I was saying that it would kill most of the performance advantage to do so.
Ouch, that hurt!
https://forums.macrumors.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1014025# no need for insults, we can both read and misread, I apologize if I missed read you, and cant wait for bench marks against the old 1.6-1.8 Powermac G5's with the same video card and memory. the viewing angles on the 17" are not very good at all. the MS response of the screens were not listed, so I am assuming 25MS, the old monitor at 20" can be found for $1000, so just add $900 to that and you get a non upgradable G5. Not Bad
Apple did the best they could and I applaud the price cuts.
not as good as many hoped. but better than many thought, not earth-shattering or groundbreaking, but a good compromise. I cant wait to see people hang them on their walls.
Some shortcomings:
Especially no BTO 128MB video offering, , Memory limited to 2GB, at least for now as 2GB sticks are coming I hope, no Pc card offering, no firewire 800, small hard drive standard and optional in this day of 200GB for $100. the industries smallest standard memory by a computer company, I am not sure if the G5 is soldered on or not, I was very surprised they left the power supply in the case, if taken out they could have reduced heat and size even more, but added another cable, this makes a powerbook G5 look more possible now, unless moto really has dual core G4. dual 1.25 G4's have actually beat the single G5 powermacs at MP-aware apps with the slow buss, a dual core G4 at 1.6-1.8 with a faster buss would scream past them.
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