Apple PowerMac G5 Promo

Apple PowerMac G5 Promo
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[xilefian]

@supercooldude2121 how much are you willing to pay?

[supercooldude2121]

@xilefian Sell it to me

[xilefian]

I have one of these sitting in my room. Need something to do with it.

[JackBandicootsBunker]

@LittleBIGRacer Yep, the G5 was supposed to be on all Apple products, which wasn't achieved because of thermal and performance problems. After all, Apple wanted this chip to reach the 3Ghz mark... Guess they contradicted themselves after they explained the (in)famous "Megahertz Myth".

[LittleBIGRacer]

@JackBandicootsBunker The G5 was supposed to be an all-around chip, that could be used in both the consumer products (iMac G5) and the high end users (Mac Pro G5) and the Servers (XServe G5). The lower end G5s worked better than the Pentiums, high end G5s better than the IV Xeons.

[JackBandicootsBunker]

Seems Apple has commited a mistake while comparing the chips here. The G5 chips were so Server-intended, that they shouldn't have been compared to the Pentium 4s of the day, but rather the XEON chips of those days (Back then Intel was starting to make of Xeon a stand-alone platform, and not Pentium dependant, like the previous Pentium II Xeon and Pentium III Xeon solutions).

[JackBandicootsBunker]

@almann1117 Why Apple suffered the termination of the AIM Alliance? Because that meant turning themselves in to Windows and Intel. Apple didn't get a better profit since the transition to Intel, specially with the Mac Pro, which is this PowerMac's successor. Xeons suck, same should be said with Opteron. The best supercomputers on Earth are powered by RISC chips, not CISC ones. And Server tasks, as far as I know, are better performed on RISC architecture.

[JackBandicootsBunker]

@almann1117 It depends on how you see what happened to IBM. IBM didn't suffer the loss of Apple that much: they were already providing chips for the three current gen consoles. Plus, the PowerPC developer branch got separated from IBM, and is now selling the POWER technology, which will power the WiiU.

The one that suffered was Apple, and Motorola too. They transformed their chip branch into Freescale semiconductor. Nowadays that company has no share inside the smartphone market.

[almann1117]

LOL- IBM got screwed when apple went to intel.

Looks like that next-gen prototype got killed!

They have several of these at my school, and are using them with mac os X server 10.3.9 in order to host the school's gradebook. They use Xserve for the school's website and web-side grades access. all I can say is that working with these computers and learning how to administer both apple and PC servers has been quite educational for me. And this ad makes me want one ^-^

[GreenMan893x]

That Ed Catmull guy kind of looks like Leon from Roseanne haha