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Has anyone heard anything about this computer?

Here is a quote from: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/oct/19pmg5.html

“The Power Mac G5 Quad delivers the workstation performance our creative and scientific customers demand,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With quad-core processing, a new PCI Express architecture, and the fastest workstation card from NVIDIA, the new Power Mac G5 Quad is the most powerful system we’ve ever made.”

What are some opinions on this new workstation

Would you need it? Do you have performance problems with your current host? If not, then it's not worth the money.

I think it's worth it, the machine is amazing....

Vyeperman wrote:I think it's worth it, the machine is amazing....

For most people it's a waste of money. Do you really care if your web browser opens 10 msec faster? You don't need this machine unless you do scientific stuff or play the lastest games.

mm_freak wrote:

Vyeperman wrote:I think it's worth it, the machine is amazing....

For most people it's a waste of money. Do you really care if your web browser opens 10 msec faster? You don't need this machine unless you do scientific stuff or play the lastest games.

Yeah your right it doesn't really matter if your browser opens in 5msec or the mac can do it in 10msec better that's not the point of the computer and it's a waiste of money to pay that much

Greetings knedl.

I agree it would be a waste of money for most people. The point is, this machine is not created with web surfing in mind - I wouldn't even start the browser. I'm sure Apple understands that not many people will pay $3k+ for a computer to check email on.
I think it's worth the money. I guarantee there are lots of audio/video facilities who already purchased a couple of them.