Customer Reviews

Apple Power Mac G5 Desktop M9020LL/A (1.60-GHz PowerPC G5, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, DVD-R/CD-RW Drive)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(0)
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2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I love the G5. First of all many people belive this is a very quiet machine because thats how apple advertises it. It isn't that quiet. Althought quieter than the mirror doors (wind tunnell) it is noticably louder than my iMac. Not really a problem. Other than that there is nothing bad about this computer. I installed FCP4 with the G5 plug in and this thing is blindingly fast. Same with photoshop. No parallel with media professionals or scientists.

This machine is absolutely the most pleasant computer to use...and as an IT director in an architecture firm I've used many a system over the years! Apple's Mac OS X Panther is truly superb on so many levels: more secure than Windows, far more stable a system, and much easier to figure out even complicated tasks. Apple does a brilliant job making hard things easy.

Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of all -- and one I think outweighs the pain of some missing Windows-only software -- is the fact that Macs don't catch viruses. And malicious "spyware/adware'? Forget about it, those bad guy miniprograms don't run on the Mac. The Internet feels just like it did back in the days before viruses were a plague like they are today...only much faster of course.

In order to converse with my Windows-dominated office, I got Microsoft Office for Mac (latest version). Many experts think it's better than the Windows version. I think it's a toss-up. Word, Excel, Outlook, typical office stuff all work fine in Windows World. So does online banking with Apple Safari browser -- which is way cooler than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Best of all, Apple's digital iLife Suite of applications have no competition in the Windows world. Think of iTunes on Windows and think of that for digital movies, digital pictures, dvd creation, etc etc. If you know how great iTunes is you know what I'm talking about. Apply that to the rest of your digital life and you'll soon realize that computing doesn't get any better than this.

A very happy Apple customer.

The Apple G5 is an excellent computer which doesn't have any of the problems on the Windows/PC platform, namely Microsoft Viruses, Trojans and Worms.

Someone did label the Apple G5 as the "Ferrari of Computing", an apt description.

a seemless system. I'm sure ther are some windows fans who honestly believe that a window machine and all the stability that is sacraficed is the best but once you truly get to know this machine you will never be able to go back to the countless crashes, poor functionality, joke of a plug n' play windows world. Buy some extra ram to eally start seeing the speed of this machine. It takes a lot more ram than most people are used to installing and once there is more in the machine the obvious superiorty of UNIX and Mac become apparent.

The G5 does not support Virtual PC. If you want to run dual operating systems, do not buy this computer!

I have worked with Apple computers all my life and had a chance to test the G5 in different configurations at work. There is a long list of reasons why people need a computer and near the bottom of that list should be: because it looks sexy. Apple lost the trust of many costumers when they claimed they had the "fastest personal computer" in the world. Apple's TV Spots for the G5 were banned from European television thanks to savvy consumer watch organizations all over the world and due to false advertising. Based on my experience, the G5 is not only "not" the fastest, it is not even close to been the fastest, and for that reason, it is overpriced. Not even Pixar/Steve Jobs conpany uses G5s in their render farm to render their wonderfully animated films (this is a fact, check it out). Wait a few weeks, around January 2004. Apple plans to cut their prices in half. However, even at half price, the G5 is still an overpriced cheese grinder and insanely slow. Despite all that I give it 2 stars for its nostalgic value.

I have had a chance to use both PC, Mac and SGI . I have done 3D Animation on all 3. SGI is the best of the group. If you want a PC with power and very few crashes you should run AMD with linux.I can not recomned a Mac. It has made false clamis of performance it is not as fast
as AMD 64 or as fast as SGI.