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Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0GHz

Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0GHz

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Apple Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0GHz

  • Reviewed by: QuantumMechanic

    05-31-05

    Duration of ownership: 1 Years

    Strengths: Speed, speed, speed, and the Velocity Engine. Runs complex scientific apps faster (vector piplelining). Manipulating large graphics images much smoother than maxed out PCs, esp in Photoshop.

    Weaknesses:Mouse - Apple, did you not learn from the G3 B&W fiasco? Keyboard is too pristine to use. Insufficient USB ports. Needs more internal HD slots.

    Overall Evaluation: This machine completes my collection of PowerPCs at my home office. (7300/9600/G3/G4/G5) When the dual 3.0+GHz come out, they are on the wish list. Great machine for intense floating point and complex integer arithmetic, along with handling large graphical objects and massive datasets. This machine has been a wonderful addition to our multiplatform Molecular Modeling lab, and now I have one at home (birthday present!). It is great to have one platform handle all of my requirements - scientific computing, graphics, statistics, word processing, systems administration. This G5 permits all of these functions with a minimum of paging, strain, hesitation. Great performance for the money. If your budget can handle the dual 2.7GHz, all the better. Max out the memory for the best performance. We have more G5s (Dual 2GHz+) on order to run quantum chemistry applications like SPARTAN and MOPAC, which the 2GHz (SP) runs faster than 3.6GHz Xeon PCs. With OS X, we can choose between UNIX, Linux, PC and Mac versions of tools, and run a mixed environment. Many of our programs run for weeks at a time, and except for code bugs, we rarely reboot. Wish they would consider bringing out 4-8 processor deskside versions with shared memory. They would become the standard in number crunching for computational physics, biology and chemistry.

  • Reviewed by: pgraney_1103902685

    01-26-05

    Duration of ownership: 5 Months

    Strengths: Speed, Storage Space, Customer Support, keyboard

    Weaknesses:Mouse (I really need a two button mouse), Not enough USB ports. To get the bluetooth feature on the mother board you must order it from factory that way. Apple was vague about this detail.

    Overall Evaluation: WIth the Apple PowerMac Dual 2.0 gHz G5 I finally can have the best computer, the best OS and run Windows programs too!I bought for the following reasons:1) Apple Product2) Customer Service record (see PC Mag review of Customer Service circa Fall 2004)3) Speed4) Ability to run Virtual PC 7.x5) Wireless capabilities Airport Extreme 802.11b/g, Bluetooth6) Ability to expand to 8 gB RAMSuggestions:1) Purchase AppleCare - The Customer Service is great and well worth the price2) Get Bluetooth on the motherboard when you order even if you don't use it right away. Otherwise you lose a USB port if you add bluetooth later3) Get a least 2 GB memory (512 adequate) Buy memory from Crucial or Swissbit

  • Reviewed by: yikes

    11-01-04

    Duration of ownership: 1 Months

    Strengths: Fast, dual processor, massive memory capacity, SATA HD, individual cooling zone, awesome design, whisper quiet, PCIX slots, awesome OS.

    Weaknesses:Once again, 2 USB port is just not enough. 4-6 would be optimum. Oh, and the included mouse sucked.

    Overall Evaluation: This baby is fast and an eye candy. The design itself is a piece of art that every other pc case designer should study. Not only is it beautiful, it is also functional. With dual CPU, Apple manage to make the machine whisper quiet. Amazing. Of course, the great OSX is also to credit for its stability and speed. Just try to multi-task the same thing on a PC and you will see the difference. If it weren't so expensive with the lousy mouse, this would be the perfect desktop machine. Then agin, Mac tend to age very well. I have been able to sell my old Mac's for quite reasonable price locally. Sadly, the same can not be said of a PC.

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