I used a G5 today: Pics and observations

[mentholiptus]

I work in the illustration & design section for a big company. A rep 
from Apple brought a prototype Dual 2GHz with a radeon 9600 and 2GB of 
RAM.

  Our tech staff and power users were VERY happy with the results of 
their benchmarks and tests, and I think they will place a hefty order 
in the coming weeks.

1) It's about as heavy as the current towers.

  2) FREAKING QUIET! And that's with your ear up to the front grill

  3) Although it looks like a mammoth, it's only about 2 inches taller 
than the G3-G4 towers (I used a tape measure) 8" wide, 19" long, and 
about 20 and a half tall.

  4) there is an internal speaker, and it's mounted next to the fan in 
the front of the video card cooling chamber.

  5) It looks cool running with the door off

  6) I selected 10 apps from the apps folder (runing 10.2.7) and hit 
command+o to open them all, and it took around 5-10 seconds for them 
all to launch.

  7) iTunes ran at 63fps on a 20" CD LCD with the radeon 9600

  8) PICTURES: http://homepage.mac.com/mentholiptus/PhotoAlbum28.html


jesse






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