Quote: Originally Posted by tooki Funny thing is, support for tons of displays is not new to the Mac. The first Mac with expansion slots, the Mac II from 1987, had six slots, an…

Quote: Originally Posted by turk.o yeah but someone is going to have to come out with a retail pci-e card for a mac first. it could be a while. It looks like Apple is selli…

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 Bwa It looks like Apple is selling the Nvidia 6600 PCIe for $200, shipping in 3-4 wks. awesome, i was looking for that, but couldn't find it an…

Quote: Originally Posted by tooki Why is non-ECC RAM a mistake? No non-server Apple hardware has EVER had ECC before. It is hardly essential. Especially considering the two 256M…

The thing that impresses me about this upgrade is that, aside from front size bus/processor speed, there is really no differences between the PowerMacs. The base unit can handle as…

Assuming that you have $3500 sitting in your pocket, are there any good reasons (regarding the technology) not to buy the new quad?

Not particularly. Especially if you want to keep it for a while. The best time to buy a Power Mac, as far as longevity, is during changes to the I/O and expansion card bus. The Po…

I agree. It is similar to a Dual G5 of the first generation which still is a venerable machine. It is significantly faster than any other PowerMac to date and this means your machi…

Quote: Originally Posted by bonkers Assuming that you have $3500 sitting in your pocket, are there any good reasons (regarding the technology) not to buy the new quad? The …

Well... will there be Quad'tels coming out next year?

The Power Macs aren't going Intel until 2007.

If you have $3500 sitting in your pocket, take it out of your pocket and put it in a money market fund or some such thing so that it will earn interest while Apple ramps up product…

Oh, and as far as water-cooling is concerned, I haven't had any problems with it. Applecare has me covered for another two years and I'll probably have upgraded my main editing mac…

thanks for the comments so far. i'm crutching along with my comp right now - daily crashes & running slow like molasses. i've been waiting for a regime change like this, but …

Quote: Originally Posted by awcopus Another thing just occured to me. My main displays are ADC-based using an ATI X800. The new Macs don't have a GPU available that supports ADC…

I want to surf the web, write some email and maybe do some light editing on my digital pics. Will this system work??? Does it support Core Video??? Specifications * 2.5GHz Q…

That is really a great price for a quad machine. To build a comparable PC like that, two Dual-Core Opterons at 2.4Ghz would set you back over $2,400 alone. Then you'd need the moth…

Why not? Well, what add-on video cards can be installed in the PCI Express slots? How much are they? These new Macs have 4x and 8x slots...what Mac cards are out there? Presuma…

Quote: Originally Posted by pliny I want to surf the web, write some email and maybe do some light editing on my digital pics. Will this system work??? Does it support Core Vide…

Quote: Originally Posted by Cadaver For web surfing and email, you could probably save yourself some money and just go with 16GB of non-ECC RAM. You forgot the additional Q…

Man, some of you guys are on a fast upgrade cycle. If you're like me, a normal middle-class individual who buys Powermacs for home use for power user/prosumer type stuff, a 4-year…

Quote: Originally Posted by jcadam Why is SJ going to intel again? The general concensus is that the Intel switch is happening because of the following two reasons; 1) Wi…

I just got my 2.5 G5 dual in June. So I'm good for five or six years.

The new "Quadra" is damn sexy. I'd hope on it in a NY minute if I had the cash. This is such a good thing for the future. The Mactels will likely have the option for a quad yet …