Quote: Originally Posted by tooki The only Apple machines to use ECC RAM until this are the Apple Network Server 500 and 700 machines, which ran AIX, not Mac OS. Apple reps …

Quote: Originally Posted by Lateralus 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 D…

Quote: Originally Posted by WOPR 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 h…

Did the "special event" offer any benchmark info - esp. on the SINGLE dual-processor. How it compares to the 2.75 DP PM?

Quote: Originally Posted by Lateralus 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 D…

I also do not regret my dual 2.5 purchase. The first review shows that the DC 2.3 is right about the same level of performance. More tests should be coming out in the future but…

Quote: Originally Posted by turk.o the quadro card is waaayyyy too expensive for me, and beyond what i need, but the 6600 is waaaaay to slow and weak, there is a huge gap there.…

FYI: Somehow some swedes got hold of the new ones and did benchmarks: http://media.99mac.se/g5_dualcore/

Well, they won't be so overkill in a year or two. Future investment! Seriously, the Quad is about the price (before tax) of my PowerBook (after tax) when it was new. Well I guess I…

Gah I don't know what to think anymore. Beasty - yes, powerfull - yes, climing up the price ladder - yes. I guess my DP G5 will last until the second rev of mactels.

Quote: Originally Posted by macsfromnowon FYI: Somehow some swedes got hold of the new ones and did benchmarks: http://media.99mac.se/g5_dualcore/ Sort of. That's only a …

Quote: Originally Posted by GSixZero 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, mo…

They have an extra USB 2.0 port on the back. The old Power Mac G5's had 3 USB 2.0 ports, these have 4 USB 2.0 ports. A nice little improvement.

What about the BTO RAM. Why do they sell it with 512MB 533 DDR2 Non ECC SDRAM- 2x256. The non EEC is a mistake to me but anyway, any RAM at all is a mistake! 2x256 for a 2.5GHz Qua…

Quote: Originally Posted by OreoCookie Apple reps told me (in 2003) that XServes (G4) can run on ECC. XServe G5s can do that as well. I stand corrected! Clearly, my memory i…

Quote: At that point you might as well get two 30" Cinema Displays too To revise my earlier comment: might as well hook up EIGHT 23" Cinema Displays, or FOUR …

Quote: Originally Posted by zubro What about the BTO RAM. Why do they sell it with 512MB 533 DDR2 Non ECC SDRAM- 2x256. The non EEC is a mistake to me but anyway, any RAM at all…

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki I stand corrected! Clearly, my memory is not ECC! Let me rephrase what my brain was thinking, fundamentally: this is the first Apple hardware …

Speaking of scientific applications, if anyone is planning on getting one of these machines, it would be nice to get benchmark numbers for the Altivec-enhanced SETI@home client bei…

Quote: Originally Posted by Apfhex To revise my earlier comment: might as well hook up EIGHT 23" Cinema Displays, or FOUR 30" (according to Daring Fireball), while you're at it,…

So why can't we order a 7800?

Well,i think i'll have to start saving again.... I'm very happy with mine,but they did now exactly what i wanted,and pci-e will fulfill my wildest gaming dreams.My FCP will love t…

Quote: Originally Posted by Leonard They have an extra USB 2.0 port on the back. The old Power Mac G5's had 3 USB 2.0 ports, these have 4 USB 2.0 ports. A nice little improvem…

Quote: Originally Posted by awcopus Actually, I'd be pretty psyched about multiplying displays. Funny thing is, support for tons of displays is not new to the Mac. The first…

Everything old is new again. Pivoting LCDs seem to be getting more popular. Anybody remember the Radius Pivot?