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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."
Now even the G5 has leap frogged your processer speeds...
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
COOL!!!!
Apple have come up with some innovative products, but their market
share remains tiny. Sadly, though, many buyers have been mislead by the
marketing and eye-candy, and desperately try to justify their overpriced
purchases to themselves on forums around the Net. Let's see what they
really mean...
"MacOS X is everything Linux wants to be."
"Despite the fact that Linux is just code and can't WANT to be anything, I
truly believe that it'd love to be a single-vendor, single-platform, sluggish
half-proprietary OS with dwindling market share. Linux would love to throw
away its impressively growing corporate takeup for that."
"Apple hardware is for real computer lovers."
"It's no hassle to use a plethora of keyboard combos to make up for the
patronising one-button mouse. Despite the fact that my hands have FIVE fingers,
and multiple-buttons make Web browsing so much more pleasant, I prefer my
computer to be treat me like a special-needs child."
"Aqua makes me so much more productive!"
"My non-techie friends drool over the transparency and scaling effects, even
though UI research has shown that they add practically nothing to getting real
work done. It feels like KDE 2 on a Pentium 200, and I can't change to a
light and fast WM, but those drop-shadows must make me work so quickly!"
"OSX shows that Apple is committed to open source."
"OpenDarwin.org and its community of about 27 is surely not just a token
gesture by Apple. Pretty much nobody uses pure Darwin, and all the crucial
components of the system are closed and require me to spend money just to get
major OS updates, but they're really helping the community somehow."
"You get what you pay for with Apple hardware."
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality
flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the
keyboard scratching the screen). Meanwhile thousands of Mac laptop owners are
trying to sue Apple over poorly-made logic boards. But it's silvery and cost
far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher
quality!"
"...blah blah MHz myth blah..."
"Although there's truth in PPC being more elegant than x86, it's crushing that
the top-of-the-range 1.5 GHz chip is slaughtered by the equivalent 3 GHz
Pentium 4. However, Steve Jobs showed some vague Photoshop filter benchmarks
at the last MacWorld, so being a leprotard, I'm convinced."
I like macs. I use a dual g4 daily. I appreciate the software they come with adds value.. however
When a decent PC tower can be had for 1200$ and cheapies for 300$ these new machines seem mainly aimed at pros.
The machines are also physically quite large (significantly larger than the g4 towers.)
If apple wants to sell more computers (like they stated at the beginning of the year), they really should make a reasonably priced minitower. (ideally in the 1000-1500 range),
Computers are not cars. The more you have the more software gets written for them the better/more usefull the machine becomes.
Citing unforseen issues with 90nm chips, Apple's dir of PowerMac marketing, Tom Boger, stated on Mac Central there will be no 3Ghz g5 'anytime soon'.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
buNch of retarded fun to be again.