PC Magazine reviews dual 2GHz Power Mac G5

Murlyn · Murlyn #1 (**permalink**)

09-19-2003, 06:19 PM

Source: MacMinute.com

PC Magazine reviews dual 2GHz Power Mac G5
September 19, 2003 - 17:00 EDT PC Magazine has posted a complete review of the dual 2GHz Power Mac G5, giving it a four out of a possible five rating. "When Apple's Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Power Mac G5 this summer as the fastest personal computer any company had built to date, we took it with a grain of salt... After testing a loaded ($4,349 direct, after we opted for more RAM and upgraded graphics) dual 2.0GHz Power Mac G5 on a range of high-end content creation applications and comparing the results with a similarly configured (and priced) Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors, we see that indeed the G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available (see performance table)."

My Comments: Those Photoshop marks are interesting.. i wonder why the PC finished them faster.. especially since Photoshop is optimized with the G5.. hmm..

Graphite · Graphite #2 (**permalink**)

09-19-2003, 08:16 PM

You know, Im not sure that this version of Photoshop is optimized with the G5.. wouldn't that be the next version?

sKaD · sKaD #3 (**permalink**)

09-19-2003, 08:19 PM

The G5 is awesome no doupt, but it's not like the Dual 3.0GHz Intel processors are necessarily slow.

I don't think that photoshop was optimized.

sKaD

Murlyn · Murlyn #4 (**permalink**)

09-19-2003, 09:11 PM

yeah I believe 7.01 is optimized for Photoshop.. and in the article they mentioned the optimized Photoshop.. but not that they used it.. just that there was an update for it.. So yeah Im really not sure

Murlyn #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 11, 2003 Location: Mount Vernon, WA Posts: 4,905 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM OS 10.5.2	09-19-2003, 06:19 PM Source: MacMinute.com PC Magazine reviews dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 September 19, 2003 - 17:00 EDT PC Magazine has posted a complete review of the dual 2GHz Power Mac G5, giving it a four out of a possible five rating. "When Apple's Steve Jobs introduced the Apple Power Mac G5 this summer as the fastest personal computer any company had built to date, we took it with a grain of salt... After testing a loaded ($4,349 direct, after we opted for more RAM and upgraded graphics) dual 2.0GHz Power Mac G5 on a range of high-end content creation applications and comparing the results with a similarly configured (and priced) Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors, we see that indeed the G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available (see performance table)." My Comments: Those Photoshop marks are interesting.. i wonder why the PC finished them faster.. especially since Photoshop is optimized with the G5.. hmm.. ---> Join the Mac-Forums Folding team: use 37954 as your team number. View Mac-Forums Folding team statistics (More Info) Don't forget to use the User Reputation System
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Member Since: Jun 11, 2003 Location: Mount Vernon, WA Posts: 4,905 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM OS 10.5.2	09-19-2003, 09:11 PM yeah I believe 7.01 is optimized for Photoshop.. and in the article they mentioned the optimized Photoshop.. but not that they used it.. just that there was an update for it.. So yeah Im really not sure ---> Join the Mac-Forums Folding team: use 37954 as your team number. View Mac-Forums Folding team statistics (More Info) Don't forget to use the User Reputation System
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Member Since: Feb 25, 2003 Location: Tropical Island, Jealous? Posts: 5,279 Mac Specs: MacPro 3.0Ghz 16GB RAM, 4x256 Vid, 30''cinema display	09-19-2003, 08:16 PM You know, Im not sure that this version of Photoshop is optimized with the G5.. wouldn't that be the next version?
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