Apple announces new G5s

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited June 2004 in Science & Tech
Neowin reports that Apple have announced an upgrade to their popular Power Mac G5 line of computers; being promoted as the worlds 'coolest computer' (in both senses of the word) the update comes with a bunch of new features. The new models look set to be available in July.
Asides from it's new cooling the system, all G5's will now ship with a faster 8x superdrive, which allows users to burn CDs and DVDs. Apple also appear to have improved the acoustics of their PCs, a major annoyance among many users with the ever growing number of fans inside cases. Compared against a Dell 3.4 ghz P4, Apple claims the new systems are almost 100% faster. One has to bare in mind however how Apple have cheated on benchmark comparisons against Intel chips before.
Source: Neowin

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    Apple claims the new systems are almost 100% faster. One has to bare in mind however how Apple have cheated on benchmark comparisons against Intel chips before.

    100% faster? If that is true and proven to be, there might be a new debate on which chip is fastest ;) But this doesn't effect the annoyances built into the MAC OS :rant:
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited June 2004
    Still doesn't change my mind about Apple. I'm not buying anything from a sole source vendor where there is no competition to keep prices in check. The only thing OSX runs on is Apple crap and Apple is the only vendor for the hardware that OSX supports.

    Piss on them and their little monopoly on their hardware and software. :rant::whatever:
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited June 2004
    keep a few things in mind though, Dells run cripplingly slow ram (my roomies 2.8c was at 3-4-4-8), and thats also an intel machine :D. lets see this thing up against an FX-53
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