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New PowerMac G5s: Up to 2.5Ghz, Liquid Cooled
no_demons writes "Apple have just announced the new, completely dual-processor PowerMac G5 lineup. The models all sport an 8x SuperDrive, whilst new the dual-2.5GHz model also features an 'innovative liquid cooled heat sink,' available in July."
This isn't really that impressive. When they come out with a processor that can beat the Athlon 64 (which by the way, is cheaper), I'll be impressed. But currently, an Athlon 64 3400+ defeats a G5 by over 70% (this is not counting the new chips, this is using the best of the old G5s) in QUICKTIME ENCODING, which is sort of sad. And Apple has the advantage of RISC also--they don't have to deal with the ridiculously inefficient x86 instruction set. Considering how much of an advantage they have over AMD and Intel in creating their processors (they don't have to be forced into Microsoft's standards), I expected something better.
Who cares? these are more way overpriced machines from Apple. Build yourself a dual Athlon 64 box with more RAM, more Hard Drive space, better video, better sound, and GNU/Linux for much cheaper and get equal if not better performance. Heck, you can even skin it to look just like OSX too.
Wait! Apple overcharging?!?! I don't belive it!
I mean sure, you paid $2000 for a $600 system, I guess there's that. And then you can pay for cool upgrades such as $200 for a $120 hard drive and $300 for $200 worth of ram. And just for fun we will tack on $300 for a $100 wireless networking setup. I mean, come one. At least the linux guys don't set their money on fire when they desire to go down the less beaten path.
Go ahead and mod me Troll. If thats how you have to deal with your obession to waiste money, I understand.
I wouldn't waste my money on Apple product. Well, maybe the Ipod.
Modding the case to make it useful, duh. Where is the flash media reader that even $300 PCs have? Where are the dual optical drives? Where's the slot for a floppy drive? It may look nice, but it's still got the utter lack of expandibility that macs have pretty much always had. I'm sorry, but I like to have some expansion capabilities, so I don't need an extra outlet bar just for all the things that belong inside of the computer case.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
To get even close to the clock speeds in the PC world, Apple has to water cool its processors. Expect a fresh round of "Megahertz myth" propaganda if this trend continues.
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