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Apple Powermac G5 Computer Review
Author: Daniel Topler
Date Posted: March 2nd, 2004
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Bottom Line:
When it first came out the Apple G5 was advertised as the fastest personal computer in the world, whilst it may be blazing fast there are a few features we would like to see. If you like OS X, crave speed, and need design, look no further, the G5 could be your answer. It does carry a hefty price tag, read all about the G5 in our official review....
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Performance
“Yeah, it may look great, but how does it Quake?” Well, this is not a gaming system; so don’t even bother asking about games. Unless you put the 9800 Pro in this sucker, don’t expect to be able to even compare to a PC gaming system. Even with the 9800 Pro, PC’s are much better for gaming then Macs are. I am a Mac lover, but I do have to admit that.
Gaming aside, the best benchmark for Macs in my opinion, is Xbench, and therefore, I’ve decided to use Xbench in my benchmarking for this review.
Xbench score: 154.86
CPU Test: 151.83
Thread Test: 93.14
Memory Test: 254.18
Quartz Graphic Test: 189.94
OpenGL Graphics Test: 163.66
User Interface Test: 244.71
Disk Test: 147.08
In order to compare, my old Revision A Powerbook G4 (12”) 867Mhz laptop with 640MB of RAM got an overall score of 84. This is almost twice that score, which is pretty damn good!
What I thought was most impressive was the disk test. My Powerbook got just a 54 on that test. This is almost three times that score. Of course, that is mainly because the Powerbook has a 4200 RPM hard drive, and is not in RAID 0, but still, its impressive!
Day-to-day performance was pretty much as expected: excellent. Things were very speedy, almost all programs opened in one “bounce” of the Dock. It’s speed is really incredible. I can’t even imagine what the Dual 1.8 or Dual 2.0 must be like…
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