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Apple Updates Power Mac Line
Phreck writes "Apple has announced an upgrade to its Power Mac line today. The new Power Macs all feature dual G5 processors, 512 MB RAM, and dual-layer 16x SuperDrives. On the low end is the dual 2.0GHz with 160GB HD and ATI Radeon 9600. The mid-range includes dual 2.3GHz processors with 250GB HD and ATI Radeon 9600. The top-end system has dual 2.7GHz processors with 250GB HD and ATI Radeon 9650. The processors are not the dual-core variety as has been rumored for weeks now."
Fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
I just bought a Dual 1.8 on eBay a week and a half ago, and the bum took a week to send it out. I just got it last night. Now this news. Nearly the same damn machine is $1499 refurbished, and I paid $300 more than that, and didn't even get Tiger.
Word for the wise: listen to everyone and WAIT when you hear something will be updated soon!
In summary: FUCK!
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
(no, Taco, you'll never live that one down).
What sort of performance improvements will I see over my Apple II?
I've heard Apple will come up with a new one button keyboard, soon. Because it's so much easier to use.
Georg
And you have to buy a new mouse too!
Why, does it come with a cat?
So ... why would anyone choose such a device over the PC??
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i only just finished compiling powermac 2.5
...my boss to announce an update to my salary. Until then my old school G4 will have to do.
zork% mv *.asp
283 files eaten by a grue
Never buy a computer when it's TODAY.
Always wait until it's TOMORROW, because something better may come out.
Hmm lets see the fastest AMD 64 chip, the FX-55 is 2.6Ghz. AMD must be really be behind the times now.
And all of those multimillion dollar IBM p690 machines filled with dual core 1.7 GHz Power 4 chips(slower than these 970s even in single die form), what a waste.. They clearly should have gone with intel and bought 3+ Ghz Xeon based x-series boxes instead.
OMG TEH APPAL! TEH APPAL IS TEH GRETAST!!!11!! TEH APPALE! WE ALLS LOVE TEH AAPPLE!111!!!!!!1!!
That would be around the time you could get a bash terminal on apple machines...
I just ran Hardware Update, and everything is much snappier!
- Then did St. Steve raise on high the Holy G5 of Cupertino, saying, 'Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine Dell enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the renderings of lambs and toads and tree sloths and fruit bats and orangutans and lickable icons.... Now did the Lord say, 'Thou in 12 months, thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the GHz and the number of the GHz shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two-point-five, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the GHz, be reached, then thine will be great and powerful in my sight, however if thou shall have more than one button on thou mouse, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff thine's life.
Now has thy Matriarch of the Macintosh forsaken us or what here?Artist will always make art.
Apple makes CHUDs? We're all doomed.
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Yes. The delay is a well-known phenomenon called the Longhorn Effect.
-- often wrong; never in doubt
...he's probably an Apple guy, though perhaps not nearly as close to the development teams as he likes to imply. His answers to people's questions seem to be rather long on design opinion, and rather short on technical details... and more than a little snippy at times.
Oh... Wait... It's so obvious, I'm surprised I didn't spot it sooner.
Mister Jobs, is that you?
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
No, I think there are probably some people in rural Asia that can't get to Apple's web site either.
Of course, they don't have any computers. Just yaks.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Oh, the injustice... someone ring up RMS, I'm sure he'll swap some gnus for their yaks.
No problem, as long as it also has a 104-button mouse.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
The PowerMac G5 case design is nothing but a big window fan.
WTF!? You gotta be kidding!
The G5 is whisper quiet, while the dual G4 towers are infamous for sounding a lot like fighter jets landing on an aircraft carrier deck in a heavy windstorm which is being power-cleaned with a sandblaster right at the moment your tea kettle starts whistling that it's ready.
Due to OS and application bloat, it will take longer for the G5 machines to boot and to load a word processor. Also, you will not be able to expand the RAM from 12x the size of the smallest workable configuration as with the II. Also, there are less than the eight expansion slots you are accustomed to. There is not an additional empty ROM socket for 3rd party custom ROMS. In short, these new machines are quite a step down from your machine's existing capabilities and are not worthy of your attention.
Wow...looking at your last 25 posts, you must have spent hours of this workday on slashdot. Props to you for your boss-avoidance skills.
The plural of "thief" is "thieves." Posted from your Mac.
This guy is way out there
He's probably a college student working at an Apple store who somehow feels qualified to outline the entire business strategy of the company.
I love how 20.1 inches becomes 4+ feet.
You sound just like my wife...