Power Mac G5 Arrived Today!
Posted on June 02, 2005 at 07:43 PM EST
My new Power Mac G5 (a.k.a. the 50 lb beast) arrived today after placing the order two weeks ago. One thing you really have to love about Apple is their first class packaging and design. You can see some photos that I took under Apple in the photographs section.
I went with the Dual 2.0 GHz model and decided to beef it up a bit. Here are the specs:
- Dual 2.0GHz PowerPC G5
- 1GB DDR400 SDRAM
- 250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
- 16x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)
- ATI Radeon 9650 w/256MB DDR SDRAM
- Airport Extreme Card
- Internal BlueTooth Module
- 56k V.92 Internal Modem
- Apple Wireless Keyboard & Mouse
- Mac OS X version 10.4 Tiger
Before hooking it up, I took off the side panel to add a second hard drive and was in silent awe for about a minute. It’s amazing just how clean and elegant the design is especially with all of the wires and parts that are inside. The two heat sinks are massive and take up about 25% of the case. The panel came off with ease after simply lifting the latch which is quite the opposite with most of the PCs I’ve worked on. It’s amazing how there’s only one company that builds machines for the Mac O/S and all of their equipment is years ahead of any of the PC manufacturers. You’d think it would be the other way around since there’s so many companies competing with one another to build a better PC, but I guess that just goes to show what kind of company Apple is.
This thing has incredible speed. Most of the apps that I’ve launched load so quick that the icons barely even bounce in the dock. Photoshop took just a few seconds to load and came up just like I turned on a light switch. Incredible! Another thing that I am really impressed with is how little noise the machine makes. Every once in a while I can hear a slight noise when the fans turn on, but it usually only lasts for about ten seconds.
Using this new machine really makes me wonder how I ever coped with my last one. I am in heaven!
I’m selling a mint condition FireWire LaCie 16x d2 DVD+RW Drive that also includes Toast 6 Titanium in case anybody is interested. The G5 has a double-layer DVD burner so I no longer have a use for the d2. For more information, please drop me an email.
Update (June 3rd, 2005)
I was just reading about the Power Mac’s design on Apple’s website and noticed something funny. The PC that is used next to the G5 as a comparison to show how little clutter the G5 has is the exact same one (Gateway Professional S) that I was using as my main workstation before I got the G5. Here’s a photo of mine, which I think would have been better to use as it looks even more cluttered than the one they used. What are the odds of that especially since it’s a few years old?
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