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<blockquote data-quote="Murlyn" data-source="post: 9200" data-attributes="member: 184"><p><strong>Source: <a href="https://www.mactech.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #CC0000">MacMinute.com</span></a></strong></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #CC0000"><strong><em>PC Magazine</em> reviews dual 2GHz Power Mac G5</strong></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: gray">September 19, 2003 - 17:00 EDT</span></span> <em>PC Magazine</em> has posted a complete <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000CC">review</span></a> of the <a href="https://www.apple.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000CC">dual 2GHz Power Mac G5</span></a>, 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 <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000CC">performance table</span></a>)."</p><p></p><p><em><strong>My Comments:</strong> Those Photoshop marks are interesting.. i wonder why the PC finished them faster.. especially since Photoshop is optimized with the G5.. hmm..</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Murlyn, post: 9200, member: 184"] [B]Source: [URL='https://www.mactech.com/'][COLOR=#CC0000]MacMinute.com[/COLOR][/URL][/B] [URL='https://www.pcmag.com/'][COLOR=#CC0000][B][I]PC Magazine[/I] reviews dual 2GHz Power Mac G5[/B][/COLOR][/URL] [SIZE=1][COLOR=gray]September 19, 2003 - 17:00 EDT[/COLOR][/SIZE] [I]PC Magazine[/I] has posted a complete [URL='https://www.pcmag.com/'][COLOR=#0000CC]review[/COLOR][/URL] of the [URL='https://www.apple.com'][COLOR=#0000CC]dual 2GHz Power Mac G5[/COLOR][/URL], 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 [URL='https://www.pcmag.com/'][COLOR=#0000CC]performance table[/COLOR][/URL])." [I][B]My Comments:[/B] Those Photoshop marks are interesting.. i wonder why the PC finished them faster.. especially since Photoshop is optimized with the G5.. hmm..[/I] [/QUOTE]
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