Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Apple - Power Mac G5 - Design
New Apple Power Mac G5 revealed today, upping the speed to 2.5GHz dual processor, and now liquid cooled for quiet power. So it's claim to be the coolest PC is bolstered by this - though it has got into trouble again for claims that it is the fastest personal computer.
But I like them. They crash less often than PCs, are quieter, at least as fast for most things, easier to edit video and photos on, and look better. OS X has a lot of very nice features, and the powerbooks are the most charming, elegant instantiations of the laptop makers art. PCs are fine too - some of the apps I've got only run on PCs, anyway, Windows XP is quite good looking, in a 12 year-old cartoon cutesy, my-little-pony kind of a way. .NET is a great platform to program to. Horses for courses, really. For home and personal use, I'm going to go back to Mac.
Update: IBM don't appear to have solved the move to the 90nm processing as effectively as they wanted - hence the liquid cooling on the new G5, and the news that a 3GHz G5 is not to be announced any time soon.
New Apple Power Mac G5 revealed today, upping the speed to 2.5GHz dual processor, and now liquid cooled for quiet power. So it's claim to be the coolest PC is bolstered by this - though it has got into trouble again for claims that it is the fastest personal computer.
But I like them. They crash less often than PCs, are quieter, at least as fast for most things, easier to edit video and photos on, and look better. OS X has a lot of very nice features, and the powerbooks are the most charming, elegant instantiations of the laptop makers art. PCs are fine too - some of the apps I've got only run on PCs, anyway, Windows XP is quite good looking, in a 12 year-old cartoon cutesy, my-little-pony kind of a way. .NET is a great platform to program to. Horses for courses, really. For home and personal use, I'm going to go back to Mac.
Update: IBM don't appear to have solved the move to the 90nm processing as effectively as they wanted - hence the liquid cooling on the new G5, and the news that a 3GHz G5 is not to be announced any time soon.
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