kgarner said:
Wouldn't it be easier to ask who owns one and doesn't like it? Maybe even better to see who owns one and doesn't like it, but not because it is a defective unit.
I bought one back in October and retiurned it 2 weeks later because "it was overrated: I said.
I got a Dual 2.0 with 512MB of Ram, at a glance I said "this is just 30% faster than my 1Ghz 12" Powerbook".
I got the G5 because I had to do a very demanding render in After Effects, so I installed everything onto the G5 and when I started the render it stopped! just at the 5th frame. It didn't say anything about memory it just freaked out. What a performance for a 64bit computer!
So I manage to connect both computers in a network (the G5 and the Powerbook) and vuala! 2 hours later I had my animation ready.
I said to my self, with that money I can get 2 more powerbooks 12" and get a better render engine + I can use them in life performence (because I am a VJ).
I realized that people are usually mistaken just because the speed you like so much come from the Video Ram actually, opening windows is video ram and many graphics operations are base on that.
I never saw a real curve in speed between the G4 and the G5. I work in video production and the studios still using the old quicksilver G4.
The best reviwes are from the iMac G5 wich seems to get the best from the G5 processor but the towers with duals.... I did my own experiment and not.
The day before returning the G5 I made a race between the 1Ghz Powerbook and the tower doing the same render both. The G5 finished in 2 hours 35 minutes while the 12" did it in 3 hours 9 minutes I think... so where was the so called HUGE 64 bits difference? comparing with a dual G4 I would buy that.
Now, the G5 does not offer speed and YOU ARE A HUGE IGNORANT IF YOU THINK SO but processor capacity. A friend of mine is able to run 64 audio channels in his software using all the plugings he wants while the same software (I do not rememeber the name, sorry) can not do that on the PC side.
Still, many people told me to add more ram but... how much do I have to spend on a computer to make it run as it should to beging with?
Sorry, read my signature. A G5 is an overclocked G4 under the hud. Yes is faster tha a G4 bla, bla but how much? way less than 50% and I been good.