Quote: Originally Posted by TFunkadelic quit bitching about it. Apple isn't making you buy anything. No, but my school and my internship are. There's no good excuse for not…

Well, all I can say is that I'm going to hold on to my 1GHz TiBook for a while longer. The current machines just aren't enough of a boost to be worth upgrading to, I think. It's …

Power who.... get an ibook or wait for the mactels to be released

Can anyone identify any other Laptop that has the same specs, or exceeds those specs, of a new Powerbook 17"? I've looked quickly at Dell and Toshiba. Aside from a slightly faste…

I just bought the new powerbook 15" the resolution is much much better! bought I actually walked into the Apple Store in Los Angeles, where they had just got a shipment and bought …

Quote: Originally Posted by jhogarty Can anyone identify any other Laptop that has the same specs, or exceeds those specs, of a new Powerbook 17"? I've looked quickly at Dell a…

So, the new dual-core G5 Power Macs have some interesting new features: - two gigabit ethernet ports with jumbo frame support - support for ECC (error-correcting) RAM. This is ser…

16GB of ram. Wow.

Quote: Originally Posted by Randman 16GB of ram. Wow. and the price of that O_o, seriously though who would need the use of that, that wouldn't be using it as a server. Wha…

The old Power Mac G5s also supported 16GB of RAM in the 8-slot models -- but in typical Apple style, they didn't advertise this, since 2GB RAM modules didn't exist commonly back th…

two general comments: 1. the thing is a BEAST! 2. it's about damn time!

Quote: Originally Posted by voo What can you do with 16GB that you can't do with 8 or 4GB... Large database server applications, as well as scientific number crunching apps,…

Not that it probably matters for most users, but they dropped the internal modem also (as done on the updated iMac)

You can only assign ~2GB of RAM per application at this point, so unless you're writing or running some crazy applications at this point, more than 6 GB is probably overkill.

Is there water cooling on the Quad 2.5 Model????

Notice the 533 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-4200). That's nice but some PC's have 667 MHz available. (I don't know how much difference it makes). All expansion slots have been upgraded to …

Didn't know the PM came with an internal modem. I'm almost positive mine doesn't have one. J.

Quote: Originally Posted by bit.shiftr Is there water cooling on the Quad 2.5 Model???? I wondered the same thing. I hope it's relatively quiet, whatever the case. I notic…

I think the internal modems were dropped with the last revision.

i'm just waiting. i'm sure somebody somewhere iwll post an article called "the dual duel" or somehting like that. lol

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki This is server hardware, plain and simple. Sweet! The only Apple machines to use ECC RAM until this are the Apple Network Server 500 and 700 …

Quote: Originally Posted by bit.shiftr Is there water cooling on the Quad 2.5 Model???? yes indeed, http://www.apple.com/powermac/design.html mouse over the top spot on the…

Why do they mention the '1tb of internal storage' ? I love the G5 but for a Mac that big it's absurd you can only fit 2 drives inside it. I do hope the Intel Macs are smaller.

Quote: Originally Posted by voo and the price of that O_o, seriously though who would need the use of that, that wouldn't be using it as a server. What can you do with 16GB that…

The new Power Macs are nice machines, but with the two lower-end models only coming with one 970MP, I'm not regretting the purchase of my Dual 2.5GHz for $2,199 a few weeks back.