Review: Power Mac G5 Quad
- Article 51 of 53
- iCreate, January 2006
Say goodbye to waiting, with the most powerful Mac in the known universe. Once you've tried it you won't want to use anything else
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More informal and helpful benchmarks came from everyday use. With few exceptions, just about everything happens instantly on the Quad. Application launch times are still a little slow and anything Internet-related, particularly .Mac, goes at a relative crawl. But iTunes will happily encode CDs at 26x speed and you can play a high def video full screen while taking up only 15% of the available CPU power. In fact, with that kind of speed, badly written programs have nowhere to run: if they’re slow or thrust a spinning beachball in your face, you know what to blame and it’s not the Mac. Particularly guilty are Entourage, Word and Safari, all of which will behave well most of the time, but occasionally slow to a crawl.
If you have the money and the need, the Quad is a fantastic, dream machine, spoilt only by the occasional act of Apple cost-cutting. Our only regret is that this is a review machine and we have to return to Quad-free lives once it goes back. Life is forever spoilt for us, because we have tasted the power of the Quad – and we like it.
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