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.

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/