G5 released in the US

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Damian - 24 Jun 2003 09:56 GMT

It looks absolutely fantastic.

And its faster than the IBM clone stuff too

Now i definitly want of those

and if the price is under $4500 I am gonna have sell the missus car and
get one i think :)

Specs as follows

> Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
> 512MB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 2x256
> 160GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
> ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
> 56k V.92 internal modem
> SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
> Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English
> Mac OS X - U.S. English

Check the performance
http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

and the US pricing (looks good for us)

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/71507/wo
/gL6Hwg7n8nDy3YYf66E2pkFwe2g/0.0.7.1.0.5.21.1.0.1.0.0.0.1.0

Damian

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David J Richardson - 24 Jun 2003 10:28 GMT

> € Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
>
> Check the performance and the US pricing (looks good for us)
>
> if the price is under $4500 I am gonna have sell the missus car

You seem overally optimistic, given that at the moment, you can
basically double any US price and lop off a hundred or so to convert.
You might be short $1000 or so.

However, hopefully those existing prices are pre-aus-dollar
improvement, and the "revolutionary price tag" promised on
<http://www.asia.apple.com:81/interest/au/> happens...

('Cause if they do, this is absolutely the first time I've ever
seriously been tempted to go for the top-of-the-range model!)

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PalaeoGraphics Sales - 25 Jun 2003 00:53 GMT

Looks like the Dual 2GHz will be around $5100 excluding GST.

On 24/6/03 7:28 PM, in article
davidj-596D8F.19280524062003@freenews.iinet.net.au, "David J Richardson"
<davidj@richardson.name> wrote:

>> > Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
>>
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> ('Cause if they do, this is absolutely the first time I've ever
> seriously been tempted to go for the top-of-the-range model!)

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David J Richardson - 25 Jun 2003 10:33 GMT

> >> € Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
> >>
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>
> Looks like the Dual 2GHz will be around $5100 excluding GST.

Is that with your personal, or reseller, hat on? :)

Going by comparisons of the new G4 models on both sites, I agree $5600
inc GST is about right for the top-end G5 ($3700 and $4500 for the other
two G5s).

(But what's with the converted price for the new "faster" G4 -- it seems
about 20% out of whack with everything else!)

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Dale Stanbrough - 24 Jun 2003 11:16 GMT

> It looks absolutely fantastic.

Hmmm... It's certainly nice to see a Mac finally providing
decent speeds (it's been a long time since they have been
competitive), but Apple seems to have reverted to their
old ways of not providing enough open bays.

One (!!!!) 5 1/4" external bay and only two (!!!!) 3 1/2"
drive slots. Why oh why can't they realise that some people
would dearly love to have a speedy machine with lots of space.
I thought they had finally figured it out the last powermac
that had 2 x external + 4 internal. <sigh>.

> And its faster than the IBM clone stuff too

Perhaps. As some people at work said, they didn't compare
it with the AMD 64 bit chip. Would it be faster? I don't
know.

Dale

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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / June 2003

G5 released in the US