I have purchased a monster. The MAC G5 w/Dual Processors. I love this damned thing. I have slept with it. Made music with it. Used less than 9% of its hard drive copying around 3000 songs. I recomend this machine. I like it! I am obsessed with it.

Thank you Dark Vader for selling us this wonderful machine!!

All must have one of these comps! Purchase no more crap. Save your money. I promise you ...it is worth it!


(Gladly will accept any checks from Mac)

not only all that, but if you attach a chain, and fill it with concrete.... bah.. nm ;)

speaking of cool machines though... the new IBM x445.. drool.. just put one together yesterday..

8 xeon 2.5ghz processors
9gb memory (actually, 18gb, but it's mirrored, hot swappable, and 1 stick fault tolerant (like raid 5))

you can play some serious nethack on this puppy! ;p

im envious of both of you.

razor
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:44 am Post subject:
not only all that, but if you attach a chain, and fill it with concrete.... bah.. nm

speaking of cool machines though... the new IBM x445.. drool.. just put one together yesterday..

8 xeon 2.5ghz processors
9gb memory (actually, 18gb, but it's mirrored, hot swappable, and 1 stick fault tolerant (like raid 5))

you can play some serious nethack on this puppy! ;p

Sorry to say this.....But,the G5 snuffs at 18gb memory. The Mac G5 has 160gb Hard Drive. hehehehe
Buy a MacG5!



(Still will accept any cash for rants and raves)

I was bored. Here are some specs. on the G5 with Dual Processors....

Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 Processors
512K on-chip level 2 cache per processor
512MB of PC3200(400MHz) DDR SDRAM eight DIMM slots support up to 8GB
ATI Radeon 9600 pro graphics card with 64MB of SDRAM and dual display support
Apple display connector and DVI connector;includes DVI to VGA adapter
160GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive2:two 3.5-inch hard drive bays (one open)
SuperDrive (DVD-r/CD-RW)
Four expansion slots (one APG 8X pro slot with graphics card installed;one open 133MHz,64-bit PCI-X slot and two open 100MHZ,64-bit PCI-X slots





Buy this computer!
Sell your Momma's gold fillings if you have to.
But,buy this machine.

Sorry to say this.....But,the G5 snuffs at 18gb memory. The Mac G5 has 160gb Hard Drive. hehehehe

apple says:

The Power Mac G5, with a suggested retail price of $2,999 (US), includes:


Dual 2.0 GHz 64-bit PowerPC G5 processors;
Dual Independent 1 GHz front-side buses;
512MB 400 MHz 128-bit DDR memory;
8 DIMMs, 8GB maximum memory;
160GB Serial ATA hard drive;
AGP 8X Pro graphics slot;
RADEON 9600 Pro-64MB DDR graphics card;
3 PCI-X slots (one 64-bit 133 MHz, two 64-bit 100 MHz); and
4x SuperDrive.

ie, the G5 can't snuff at 18gb memory, because the maximum in can hold is 8gb ;p

as far as storage/dd space goes... it only has 2 HD bays.. which we have 2 145gb U320 SCSI drives in, mirrored... pretty much just for the OS (yes, yes, 145gb for an OS partition is kinda silly.. *shrug*)

for the MAIN storage... I think we're looking at somewhere around 270gb? The SAN has 11 32gb drives, raid 5.. not sure if we're using a hot spare or not.. so without doing to much math I think it's in the neighborhood of 270-300 :p

we are kinda comparing apples and oranges here though :p

::Sniff::
::Sniff::
Maybe I am defeated this time.....
But,there is always next!




But a G5!

don't feel to bad... the x445, configured as I mentioned above retails for around $55,000 ;) not much of a desktop. hehe.

You forgot to mention the 1ghz frontside bus on the G5

I'm in agreance with Junkie on this one..... my broke ass haven't been able to get a new comp in 4 years so i'm way back behind in the times..... Please don't take my geek card from me