- The 108-key Apple Pro keyboard features full-size cursor keys for those times when you want to zip up, down,
- And sideways to race through image retouching tasks, change direction in games, or jump from place to place in a document.
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With a quantum leap in processing power, ultraefficient system architecture, next-generation 3-D graphics, the revolutionary DVD-R/CD-RW-burning SuperDrive, and Mac OS X, the dual 1 GHz Power Mac G4 is designed to put your workflow into fast forward.
The dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 processors--with a combined performance of 15 billion floating point operations per second, or 15 gigaflops--put this fearsomely fast Power Mac squarely in the lead as the ultimate high-end graphics workstation. The first Power Mac to blast through the 1 GHz barrier, the new twin-engined G4 runs professional applications like Adobe Photoshop up to 72 percent faster--and crunches digital video over 300 percent faster--than a 2 GHz Pentium 4-based PC.
The system's graphics performance is off the charts, with hot new graphics processors and dual display support. The nVidia GeForce4 MX delivers riveting effects, with fluid motion and photorealistic 3-D images. The GeForce4 MX, a phenomenal graphics processor with 64 MB of on-chip Double Data Rate (DDR) memory, pumps out 1.1 billion textured pixels per second to kick your projects into overdrive.
The Apple Display Connector (ADC) makes it a snap to connect your Power Mac to your choice of three brilliant displays. Combine it with the 15-inch or 17-inch Apple Studio Display, or the gorgeous 22-inch Apple Cinema Display, and you'll have the perfect environment for creative professionals.
Faster-than-light processor speed gets an additional boost with an advanced cache memory architecture that provides ultrafast, dedicated memory with massively enhanced throughput. Accessing data from main memory is significantly faster than accessing data from the hard drive, and in these two models the system architecture takes this concept one step further with an even faster level of memory called L3 cache. The L3 cache uses 2 MB of high-speed DDR SDRAM running at up to 500 MHz--boosting processor function by providing fast access to data and application code at speeds of up to 4 gigabytes per second (GBps).
You also get the benefit of built-in Gigabit Ethernet for shooting large files across your LAN at previously unheard-of speeds, a 56K modem, an AirPort Card slot, two 400 Mbps FireWire ports, and four USB ports (two on the computer, two on the keyboard). Incidentally, FireWire, PCI expansion (four full-length, 64-bit, 33 MHz PCI slots with 215 Mbps throughput), and Gigabit Ethernet are integrated directly into the main system controller, reducing latencies and providing superior I/O performance.
This Power Mac comes with an 80 GB, 7,200-rpm Ultra ATA hard disk drive and three 3.5-inch hard disk drive expansion bays--with support for up to two internal ATA drives, three internal SCSI drives, or a combination of two ATA drives and one SCSI drive for a total of 232 GB of internal storage. And since the SuperDrive-equipped Power Mac comes with iDVD 2, you can burn data CDs and DVDs--with point-and-click ease--to archive your work minutes after you take your new system out of its box. With up to 4.7 GB of storage capacity on a single optical disk, this Power Mac will never run out of space for your ideas.
The 108-key Apple Pro keyboard features full-size cursor keys for those times when you want to zip up, down, and sideways to race through image retouching tasks, change direction in games, or jump from place to place in a document. It also gives you 15 full-size programmable function keys, so you can assign a single keystroke to quickly launch a favorite application, execute a command, or open a particular project file. The Apple Pro keyboard also comes with full-size keys for Page Up and Down, Home and End, Insert and forward Delete, plus a convenient Eject key for ejecting CDs or DVDs.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This thing should be named Pentium Killer.,
By Shaun (Riverdale, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Apple Power Mac Desktop M8667LL/A (1-GHz Dual Processor PowerPC G4, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)
I bought my Power Mac G4 Dual 1 GHz in February. Since then, I have been editing videos, playing with my pictures, and doing some things with digital audio. This computer is simply amazing. I have a 2.0GHz P4 Dell and this machine blows it away easily. Running SETI @Home, the Dell takes about 17 hours to complete a cycle. The G4 takes approxamately 9. If you want a system that can do it all, look at the Power Mac G4, you won't be dissappointed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
G4 Macs ROCK!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Apple Power Mac Desktop M8667LL/A (1-GHz Dual Processor PowerPC G4, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)
I find it very difficult to read the words of the PC "faithful" who just don't get the big picture. PC's are a lame excuse for Power and Usability. Windows is an antiquated spinoff of MacOS 7. That's just on the software side. This G4 dual processor has plenty of speed and power. Add a Virtual PC package and it runs 95% of all Windows software (depending on the version of windows you select). On top of that, I have all my former PC documents and they save rather nicely on the Mac.The future, my PC friends, is OPEN SOURCE. No more monopoly for Microsoft, and watch the prices fall! If it weren't for Apple's existence, Do you really think the PC manufacturers would sell boxes at the margin levels that they are? Not a chance, they would rip you off. What keeps them at bay is the threat of an alternative platform. Think about that, before you focus your energy on the PC's low prices. Get inside and check out the corners they cut to put a PC in every home!! Now, tell me again about all the integrated software that a box maker puts in your PC system? Tell me about the mysterious PC crashes, or windows crashes that have become a standard on the WINDOZE platform? If one of my apps crash, I don't have to reboot my system, just restart the app. Or, if an App freezes, I can Force Quit and restart the app. OS "X" rarely freezes. In fact, my machine has been running now for 8 months since I last shut it down. Apple will continue to "change the world" one user at a time. Someday, you'll be thankful that they did.....
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
AN ACTUAL OWNER REVIEW HERE IGNORE THOSE PC LAMOS,
By A Customer
This review is from: Apple Power Mac Desktop M8667LL/A (1-GHz Dual Processor PowerPC G4, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB hard drive) (Personal Computers)
It's amazing to me that after all these years the anti-Mac (read windows users) establishment continues to be brainwashed. There are a couple of one star reviews here from PC owners, not owners of this Mac system or ANY Mac system for that matter. I can tell you this: I have used Macs since day one, AND I have used Windows machines for years. The Mac was a better computer 18 years ago and it is today and will continue to be. One reviewer mentions the various firewire ports, USB 2.0, video card, hard drive, yadda yadda ports etc...on the PC that for some reason he thinks are better (hello? who coined the term firewire and MADE it mainstream, not Microsoft or Dell) -- ask that same person how seemless it all is, how it really is NOT plug and play and how completely horrifying WindowsXP is because most of your old software will not be compatible! Ask any Windows user how easy it is to troubleshoot their machine and they'll tell you to ask their PC support guy who charges $95/hr. There is a bit of a premium for a Mac, yes. But always remember that you are buying the ONLY fully integrated hardware+software system in the world that's easy for a layman and pure sophistication for the UNIX geek. Go Man and you won't look back.
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