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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Source: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2816

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John Bloeme

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.

August 21 2006 at 8:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Yuri Walkiw

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.

August 18 2006 at 11:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

unimental

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.

August 18 2006 at 2:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Blah

I just don't find the internals as interesting anymore without the G5 on the heat sinks.

August 18 2006 at 1:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

code

It just looks incomplete without that G5 tag.

August 18 2006 at 8:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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

August 18 2006 at 8:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

William Crabtree

"Those wacky kids..."

Do you mean Anand? ...the guy many a PC junky worships?

I hope you were joking about that..

August 17 2006 at 10:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shaaheen

Microsoft admits Macbooks are bug free:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33741

August 17 2006 at 8:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Scott Falkner

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.

August 17 2006 at 8:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Liquidmark

Pretty nice. Now, Let's see the Mac Pro stomp some Windows only PC's!