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AnandTech reviews Mac Pro
Have you been searching for an exhaustive review of the Mac Pro that compares it, inside and out, with the PowerMac G5? Search no more! Those wacky kids from AnandTech have gotten their hands on a brand new Mac Pro and put it through the paces. The 20 page review includes many pictures comparing the Mac Pro to the PowerMac and vice versa. As you might expect the Mac Pro came out on top (shocker, I know), and AnandTech says that this powerful machine is a good buy.Get yourself a beverage and read the whole thing.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Liquidmark said 8:03PM on 8-17-2006
Pretty nice. Now, Let's see the Mac Pro stomp some Windows only PC's!
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Scott F said 8:34PM on 8-17-2006
Liquidmark: It's "PCs", not "PC's". Sorry to dump on you, but I've seen way too many superfluous apostrophes to let it go this time.
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Shaaheen said 8:53PM on 8-17-2006
Microsoft admits Macbooks are bug free:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33741
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William Crabtree said 10:17PM on 8-17-2006
"Those wacky kids..."
Do you mean Anand? ...the guy many a PC junky worships?
I hope you were joking about that..
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tr said 8:16AM on 8-18-2006
3. "Those wacky kids..."
Do you mean Anand? ...the guy many a PC junky worships?
I hope you were joking about that..
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even though Anand did the piece, i'm sure Scott was just referring to Anandtech as a whole. i mean, they do have a STAFF, it's not just Anand doing everything:
http://www.anandtech.com/siteinfo.aspx?about=y
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code said 8:21AM on 8-18-2006
It just looks incomplete without that G5 tag.
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Brad said 1:51PM on 8-18-2006
I just don't find the internals as interesting anymore without the G5 on the heat sinks.
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unimental said 2:28PM on 8-18-2006
Well... you could either leave it blank or slap an "Intel Inside!" graphic in place of the old G5 print. (eeks!)
I'll take mine plain, please.
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Yuri Walkiw said 11:40PM on 8-18-2006
I think an Apple logo wouldn't look bad on each of the hard drive sleds. The G5 does look a lot cooler with the side panel off than the MacPro. It also seem alot more full of stuff. My single 1.8gHz G5 has a giant empty space towards the front of it.
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Fred said 8:00AM on 8-21-2006
The article mentions the poor RAM performance but doesn't mention that the MacPro RAM is ECC. All that error checking causes a performance penalty. G5 PowerMacs don't use ECC RAM.
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