The new G5's

[Charles Martin]

> From: Video International <videoint at jb3.so-net.ne.jp>
>
> The pluses are numerous. The minuses are: only 3 PCI slots (one used)
> and room for only 2 drives. Love the design!

There are FOUR PCI slots in the G5, with one already in use for the 
video card. That leaves three available slots.

As for the lack of internal drive room, keep in mind that at the MOMENT 
those mere "two slots" can hold a half-terabyte of drive space. Already 
announced are forthcoming serial-ATA drives with larger capacities.

And with FW 400 and 800 plentiful on the machine, external drives 
actually become more practical (if more expensive) than internal ones.

If that's you're biggest minus, I'd have to say Apple's really knocked 
out a home run on this one.

_Chas_

Two studies in "Innovation":
28-Apr-03: Apple introduces revolutionary legal music service (300,000 
downloads @ .99/ea on the first day), releases iTunes4 (by far the best 
jukebox software in the world), updates Quicktime to encode AAC audio 
(superior to MP3).

30-Apr-03: Microsoft's MSN division introduces the iLoo, a portable 
toilet with internet access. A week later, they claim it was "a hoax" 
they played on themselves. A day after that, they admit it was a real 
product but it's now been killed (and that they lied when they called 
it a "April Fool's joke"). This from the company that wants to bring 
you "Trustworthy Computing."