[CUBE] I used a G5 today: Pics and observations

[Allan Hise]

Cool! thanks for the report.

Can you point out where ther hard drive is in the pictures?
Maybe I'm dumb, but I can't find it.

Allan

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, mentholiptus wrote:

> 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
>
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> jesse
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