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Summary: Softimage and other top companies drop mac os!
Review: Aplle has lost both battle and the war to Linux and Windows!
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Summary: The fastest computer? Absolute rubbish...
Review: Based on the review "Lame Duck" I think that the writer is a "Lame Brain".. I have operated a small business for the past 12 years with nearly all Mac's, and have never needed to take a Mac to a service technician.. This new G5 is the fastest and easiest machine to use yet.. For the record, we still have a 10 year old Quad 610 Mac for accounting that has never needed service, aside for adding some memory and a larger hard drive which any 4th grader could do.. The office presently has 5 Mac's and one Windows XP machine.. The Windows machine which is only handling faxes and UPS software requires more maintenance restarts to keep it working than all the Mac's combined! We have one Mac that is 3 years old, that we use as a server for all the sales machines.. It runs 24-7, and has not been turned off for the past 6 months, and then only because we needed to move it, and blow out a hand full of dust.. Frankly I am in business to sell other products, and can't afford to be bothered with the high maintenance required by the popular neighborhood machines.. Perhaps the writer of "Lame Duck" should actually try a Mac..
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Summary: Some People don't deserve quality!
Review: Based on the review "Lame Duck" I think that the writer is a "Lame Brain".. I have operated a small business for the past 12 years with nearly all Mac's, and have never needed to take a Mac to a service technician.. This new G5 is the fastest and easiest machine to use yet.. For the record, we still have a 10 year old Quad 610 Mac for accounting that has never needed service, aside for adding some memory and a larger hard drive which any 4th grader could do.. The office presently has 5 Mac's and one Windows XP machine.. The Windows machine which is only handling faxes and UPS software requires more maintenance restarts to keep it working than all the Mac's combined! We have one Mac that is 3 years old, that we use as a server for all the sales machines.. It runs 24-7, and has not been turned off for the past 6 months, and then only because we needed to move it, and blow out a hand full of dust.. Frankly I am in business to sell other products, and can't afford to be bothered with the high maintenance required by the popular neighborhood machines.. Perhaps the writer of "Lame Duck" should actually try a Mac..
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Summary: Lame duck
Review: Due to the lack of support for this product, I have to rate it low. The service of an Apple computer requires that you mail it off for repairs constantly. Add in the enormous shipping and insurance costs to the price, and it's not such a good deal. Also, while its gone, you cant use it, so obvioulsy even if it were free it still woul not be that great a deal. Alienware PC's are much faster and cost several hundred less on average.
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Summary: Lame duck
Review: Due to the lack of support for this product, I have to rate it low. The service of an Apple computer requires that you mail it off for repairs constantly. Add in the enormous shipping and insurance costs to the price, and it's not such a good deal. Also, while its gone, you cant use it, so obvioulsy even if it were free it still woul not be that great a deal. Alienware PC's are much faster and cost several hundred less on average.
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Summary: should come with a pack of cigarettes
Review: Even if you don't smoke, you might want a "hit" after playing with this super-sonic speed demon. My boss ordered this computer as a "surprise" for me to replace my aging G4. If I had been let in on the surprise, I would have asked for a dual processor, but I'm not complaining.
If you've got the $, you'll want to get the dual processor, because all future OS X apps are moving in that direction - especially when Tiger (OS 10.4) debuts in Spring 2005.
Having a DVD-R and a CD-R that reads the 800MB CDs is sweet. The machine is relatively quiet and simply gorgeous to behold - a true example of industrial art.
The grille helps to circulate air to cool the hot CPU. The only 64 bit computer a mere mortal can afford at this time... Apple has once again raised the bar to previously unthinkable heights.
This is a machine that will still be a workhorse 5 years from now - you can't say that for any PC on the market. PCs are ready for the "old age home" by age 3 nowadays, but Macs keep truckin' on.
I still have an old G4 at home that is over 5 years old and I probably won't move on up to a G5 (or G6!) for another year or two - and that will be more for selfish reasons that true necessity.
A true plus is the addition of frontal ports which supplement the rear ports. How wonderful to have a headphone jack in the front! Hallelujah!
My less than perfect rating stems from no way to forceably eject a stuck CD. Older models let you use the old "paper clip" trick to eject a disk that wouldn't mount, but your only shot is to reboot while holding the mouse button down - and that won't always work - in which case you have to take the machine to an authorized Apple Technician.
The metallic door where the discs go in is super sexy, as is the whole machine.
The handles are a bit hard to hold comfortably - Apple should have included some plastic molded (and removable) handle cushins or something.
The case doesn't show scratches like plastic does and the screened Apple logo is so classy. All they need now are dual chrome exhaust pipes and a cup holder to make this baby drool worthy!
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Summary: Think Ferrari, Pay Honda
Review: From the outside, it looks like it belongs on the set of The Day The Earth Stood Still, a kind of retro-aircraft aluminum-alien artifact look. But, look closer and you'll see the flawless fit and finish and stunning simplicity we've come to expect from Apple. (Even the CD/DVD door slides down with a "woosh" like the doors on Star Trek.) Flip down the side of the case (after engaging a small, well-constructed latch on the back), and the inside looks even better than the outside, with all the componentry neatly organize behind behind the clear, removable polycarbonate venting system. Everything is easily and readily accessible, from RAM slots, to graphics card, to optical drives, to processor, and organized in a way that would make Modrian proud. It goes without saying that even the innards are solidly constructed of the highest quality components. When you close the case, it snaps into place like a luxury car door. Of course, the even a Ferrari would be a flop if it couldn't race, and the G5 is 12 cylinder, turbo-charged beast. This is the 1.8 gHz model, the middle of G5 line choice, which has specs that blow away even a top of the line Pentium or Xeon. The heart of it, of course, is the 64 bit G5 processor, the stuff of servers. No other desktop has one, and while the software is just catching up with it, it still flies. (Apple's system software, OS 10.2, will be upgraded in a month or so to 10.3, which will be optimized in many respects for the G5. Expect performance to soar even higher.) Unlike conventional home computers, the G5 can support up to 4 GB of RAM per processor (as opposed to the 1 GB limit of conventional 32 bit processors like the Pentium), has a frontside buss of up to 1 gHz (900 mHz for the 1.8), it supports PC-X cards, FireWire 400 and 800, USB 2, and FireWire, and a 160 GB hard drive. It burns CDs and DVDs with the effortless iMovie and iDVD, as well as host of other Mac only applications that set the bar for ease of use and professional results. Why would anyone look anywhere else? The G5 is the ultimate, and it is no more expensive than supposedly comparable Pentiums, Athlons, or Xeons.
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Summary: The fastest computer? Absolute rubbish...
Review: I have used this computer and the G5 is not even close to been the fastest. It is not just overpriced, it is astronomically overpriced. I don't like a company that consistently makes gargantuan exagerated claims about their products. To make matters worse Maya (Alias) is not dual processor aware on the Mac platform, despite claims to the contrary. So everything takes at least twice as long to render no matter what model G5 you buy. If you really, really want to buy this model you should wait a little while, Apple plans to cut their prices sooner than you think. However, even at half price, the G5 is still overpriced and insanely slow compared to any Pentium or Athlon based computer.
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Summary: New Apple user
Review: I just bought my new G5 and it is the first Apple I have owned. My first G5 did not work and it was new sent directly from Apple. This happens from time to time. It took almost 2 weeks to get from order time with ground Fed X shipping. I was a bit surprised at the length and it was not very clear when ordering from Apple that it would take this long. They did send me a new PC since the first was broken, but I had to package up the broken one and bring it to a Fed X shipping drop off some miles away from my house and it took many phone calls to Apple. The second computer was supposed to be sent 2 day, but that did not happen either. A mistake was made on their end that delayed my second computer from arriving. In all, it took just short of a month to receive my working G5. Apple customer support is difficult to contact, obviously I had to make several calls (first sales, then tech support, then sales again, etc about 7-8 in all) which each had a wait time to talk to someone of at least 25 minutes. It was a time consuming process, but the tech support was great and worth the time to wait there. I am an experienced PC user so it was and still is a bit of a transition. Once you get the function variations down, you notice that operating the Mac is so much simpler than a PC. My favorite thing is not having to negotiate through Internet popups of course. Simple things such as this are built in to the Mac and are so easy to enable and disable. The G5 is super fast and silent. My only discontent with the machine actually is with software and hardware compatibility. I have since found that it is hard to find software and some hardware locally that is compatible with OS X panther. Programs I love to use, like MSN or Yahoo Messenger, lack in functionality with the Mac. The costs of my Children's games are quite a bit higher as well and most do not work in the OS X platform yet either. When purchasing equipment such as web cam's, printers, etc, it is critical that you verify and double verify that they will work with your PC. This is really not a MAC issue, more of an industry issue, but it is real and limits what you can do, especially if you are an old PC user. This is becoming less important as I find good Internet sites and other resources to find Mac support; it just takes a bit of getting use to. Even with all of the problems I had, I would highly recommend this product. I do believe Murphy had a bit to do with my experience and with the exception of the long wait times, and I am hoping Apple gets on this one, they did handle it in a professional and very acceptable manner. I love my new machine and am slowly building up a software inventory that has awesome graphics and play speed. I am even getting good at locating drivers for devices from sources other than the hardware manufacturers, since they are so slow to step up to the plate, which expands the hardware compatibility issue.
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Summary: The fastest computer that I've ever operated.
Review: I'll grant you, I am Macintosh through and through. I started working on a little SE at Kinko's back in 1985. Over the years, I've kept up to date fairly well. My iMac sits proudly on my desk at home. I carry my iBook when I need the portability. Up until about two weeks ago, I was working off a G4 that was starting to show it's age. I recently upgraded to the new G5. Wow! This machine is everything it's promoted to be, and that's without full OS or software support of the 64 bit processor. My work has me dealing with large Photoshop files quite a bit. The G4 used to strain just to open them. Now, I can open, make a minor change, and be done before they would have been opened on the old machine. Whether it's software or OS related, there seems to be a bit of issue going between OS X (10.2.7) programs and Quark XPress 4.1 (under Classic environment). But that's a minor issue that I can live with. Especially once I upgrade a few programs and minimize the need for Classic. Just so you know... The overall size is about 10% larger than the G4 it replaced. I wasn't quite prepared for that. Also, when the cooling fans come on, you hear about it. And, the caps lock (on) diode is hard to see on the streamlined keyboard. The mouse also seems to be more sensitive than before.
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