As in the past, I ran the Xbench benchmarking application for a quick look at how those two liquid-cooled G5 chips perform. I also ran a few tests to try and confirm the extra speed.
And it was noticeably faster than my dual 2-GHz model. That's 4 seconds faster than the dual 2.5-GHz model I had last fall (see story). I didn't think to check it then, but I later clocked the time from start-up chime to desktop at 44 seconds. I don't know whether it's the combination of hardware I assembled, the addition of Tiger, or - most likely - both, but the Power Mac booted up in a jiffy. I have the two drives in a striped RAID configuration, which offers a speed boost at the cost of storage space. I then pulled the 250GB hard drive from the new machine, replacing it with two 74GB Western Digital "Raptor" hard drives, which spin at 10,000 rpm. I swapped out the RAM from my old Power Mac, giving me 2GB. RAM prices are down, and experts have predicted they'll drop even further by summer (see story). At the very least, you'll want to double that, and for anything beyond day-to-day use, make it 2GB. The Power Mac comes with 512MB of double data rate 400 synchronous dynamic RAM. That's especially true if you can do what I did and take a fast machine and make it faster. We're still waiting.īut if you have one of the lesser Power Macs - and I use lesser here only to denote speed - and you're up to your eyeballs in digital video, big graphics files or processor-intensive data crunching, you'll want to consider the new Power Macs. You may recall that he had predicted in 2003 that 3-GHz G5 chips would be out in 2004.
#APPLE MAC G5 MAXIMUM NUMBER OF HARD DRIVES UPDATE#
The latest update leaves the Power Mac still 10% shy of where Apple CEO Steve Jobs thought it would be last year. Apple Cinema Displays should I so choose. In fact, with that ATI card, I could one day hook up one of the 30-in. The dual 2-GHz model at home was plenty fast enough for my use.Īfter first finding a potential buyer for said dual 2-GHz Power Mac, I mentally toted up and compared hardware specs on my way to the store: A 700-MHz processor bump over my old Power Mac a 16X SuperDrive that burns dual-layer DVDs holding twice the data of single-layer discs a larger, 250GB hard drive and a better video card, the ATI Radeon 9650.
I was impressed last fall when I finally got my hands on a dual 2.5-GHz Power Mac from Apple (see story), but I held off buying one at the time. Actually, wandered isn't the right word, as I made a beeline for the store after work with the goal of bringing home one of those new dual 2.7s. Lured by the siren song of speed, I wandered into a local Apple Store late last week, my interest piqued by the new dual 2.7-GHz Power Mac G5s that Apple Computer Inc.
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