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

[Kunga]

Great. Congratulations on your early access. Did any of you use iTunes 
to rip an AAC file to see how fast it rips AIFF to AAC files and if so 
what is the X factor?

kunga10 (AIM)
kunga47 (Yahoo Messenger with Cross-Platform dial-up Video sans audio 
on Macs)

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 05:04  PM, 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
>
> jesse