Dual 1Ghz G4 PowerMac With Extra Yummy

A huge number of readers submitted the new Dual Ghz Power Mac that Apple has announced. Includes a Geforce 4 and assorted other bells and whistles that will ring and blow for the Mac Junkie. They start at $3k and seriously make me want a Mac.

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huh?

[tux-sucks]

CmdrTaco wants a mac?! Good lordy, they must be doing something right.

It needs more features!

[NiftyNews]

Darn, Mac missed a chance to start off a new line of hyper-cute with some quality components.

Where are the crazy features? How about four little feet that walk around to amuse the user? Or a spout that collects humidity to make a wicked glass of iced tea every few hours?

Re:It needs more features!

[foobar104]

Where are the crazy features? How about four little feet that walk around to amuse the user? Or a spout that collects humidity to make a wicked glass of iced tea every few hours?

I just picked one up at the local Apple store. When I got it hope, it jumped out of the box, handed me a card, and ran around my neighborhood. The card said, "I have been trained to gather fruit for you."

*munch, munch* Quite possibly the world's finest dog^H^H^Hcomputer.

My DP G4 800

[Anonymous Coward]

I will now remove the Ring of Power from my "new" dual G4 800...

[tear runs down cheek, falls to floor]

blakespot

help save taco!

[flynt]

seriously make me want a Mac.

My friend started saying things like this after he got a girlfriend too. We had to set up an intervention session. I propose we do the same before Taco starts posting reviews of "A Walk to Remember". :)

"Faster-than-light processor speed?"

[dpbsmith]

The blurb at http://www.apple.com/powermac/ has a section entitled "Cache Advance" that should be good for a smirk, or at least a raised eyebrow.

It says, and I am not making this up, "In the 933MHz and dual 1GHz Power Mac G4 models, faster-than-light processor speed gets an additional boost with [now here comes the technical stuff--DPBS] advanced cache memory architecture that provides ultrafast, dedicated memory with massively enhanced throughput."

You know, as opposed to lesser machines that have only fast, dedicated memory with enchanced throughput.

But, wait, there's more... in this remarkable machine, "Accessing data from main memory is significantly faster than accessing data from the hard drive..."

Re:"Faster-than-light processor speed?"

[gcondon]

How about the first line ...

"With a quantum increase in processing power ..."

As we all remember from our Introduction to Modern Physics courses, a "quantum" is the SMALLEST increment allowed by nature. Not really something to write home about.

If you wish to allude to the largest physical structures, the proper adjective is "cosmic". Perhaps that sounded just a little too groovy - even for Apple.

Re:"Faster-than-light processor speed?"

[csbruce]

Heh, now those sleep(-1) calls that I've peppered throughout my programs will make them run faster.

300 percent faster?!

[af_robot]

"...the new twin-engined G4 runs professional applications like Adobe Photoshop up to 72 percent faster -- and crunches digital video over 300 percent faster -- than a 2GHz Pentium 4-based PC."
Hmm.
So will it play all my DIVX movies 3 times faster???
Is it sounds a little stupid?

Re:Moore's Law in effect?

[foobar104]

I just bought a dual 500 G4 PowerMac about 1 1/2 years ago for $3,000 w/ an ATI Rage Pro 128. Now I can get a dual 1Ghz PowerMac w/ a GeForce4 for $3,000. Awesome!

I've heard it said many times, and I'll repeat it myself: the computer you want always costs $3,000.

(I've heard another version that names a cost of $5,000. I guess that guy's computer is just a little more than I really want.)

Editted Summary ...

[tjwhaynes]

For those in a hurry, here is the editted summary ...

A quantum ... revolutionary ... and ... Mac ... floating ... fearsomely fast ... through the ... barrier ... runs ... and crunches ... Pentium 4-based ... super models.

Off the charts, with hot ... fluid motion and ... phenomenal ... overdrive ...snap ... three brilliant ... creative professionals.

Faster-than-light ... ultrafast ... massively enhanced throughput ... significantly faster... even faster ... boosting ... for shooting large ... Keyboard features.

What more do you need to know?

Cheers,

Toby Haynes

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[Anonymous Coward]

and no one can imagine a Beowulf Cluster of These??

I'm disappointed.

I'd give up my porn collection for that thing...

[CMiYC]

...because its sexy enough on its own.

Re:Macs are comming back (sort of)

[phillymjs]

The system came preloaded with ME, and when we helped her switch to 2K for stabilitie's sake, Dell informed us the warranty was void without the original OS supplied with the system.

Hmmm, this must be that "choice" thing that Wintel people are always bragging about having.

~Philly

wormy

[spoonyfork]

Apple: going out of business since 1984.

Re:Where's the audience?

[Pfhor]

Depends on the size of the battery.