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New Mac!
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Grove City, Ohio
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Hi,
Christmas came early here today. After 10 years using a PowerMac 7500, I now own a Dual 1.8GHZ, 512Megs ,with ATI 9600XT, Bluetooth, Airport.
Booted up fine, even using my old Apple 720 CRT monitor without any major problems.
Ordered it last Saturday night, got it today ( Friday) at 1:45 via FedEx Next Day Air.
Woooo hooo!
Mark
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DP 1.8 Rev B, 2Gigs Ram,ATI 9600XT,Airport, 20" ACD. Also 13" Macbook 2Gigs Ram. Obsession 15" ,Nexstar 5i and Ultima 8 telescopes.
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Congrats! 
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Join Date: May 2001
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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congrats! Now slap in 2 gigs of ram and you're good to go. The G5's are ram hungry
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2004
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Nice ! Congrats ! + that was a fast delivery, had to wait over a month to get mine 
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stuffing feathers up your b*tt doesn't make you a chicken.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Let me join in the congratulatory chorus! I made a similarly huge upgrade - from an 8600/300 and an iBook 466 to a DP 2.0. You'll love your new G5 - they are amazing Macs!
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Wow, that's quite the upgrade! Congrats.
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The Lord said 'Peter, I can see your house from here.'
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Grove City, Ohio
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Yeah, Im thrilled. Like a kid at Christmas. Whats really amazing to me so far is how quickly my 4 year old son adapted to the new OS. He was like a pro in no time.
I did the upgrade to 10.3.5 this morning. So far no issues.
Began playing Call of Duty this morning too.....Im overwhelmed!
Mark
Originally posted by ReggieX:
Wow, that's quite the upgrade! Congrats.
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Mark
DP 1.8 Rev B, 2Gigs Ram,ATI 9600XT,Airport, 20" ACD. Also 13" Macbook 2Gigs Ram. Obsession 15" ,Nexstar 5i and Ultima 8 telescopes.
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Ok,just thought I'd post some impressions since I received the new Mac on Friday.
The Mac has been solid from first boot up. Downloaded the 10.3.5 and installed that without any issues. Piece of cake.
Not noisy, fans only kick in once in a while. Even while playing Call of Duty, the fans are pretty quiet. Call of Duty is quite intense and kicking my arse, even on the wussy setting. My first new game in almost 8 years.........lots have changed. My 4 year old son is enjoying his Harry Potter game too.
My first real experience with Mac OSX has been fairly positive. There are some things I find quirky, or odd.
Contextual menus dont pop up when I hold down the mouse button. That baffles me. Also, not being able to customize the clock menu ( different colors,etc) puzzles me too.
Overall, quite positive so far.
Whew!
Mark
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DP 1.8 Rev B, 2Gigs Ram,ATI 9600XT,Airport, 20" ACD. Also 13" Macbook 2Gigs Ram. Obsession 15" ,Nexstar 5i and Ultima 8 telescopes.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Markovich:
That's quite a jump to go from a 233 MHz G3 to a dual 1.8 GHz G5, and to make the G5 your first taste of OS X. Hopefully you enjoy it.
On the subject of contextual menus, the easiest thing to do is to get used to either Control-clicking or to get a multi-button mouse - if you don't have one already. My leanings would be either towards the S+ARCK mouse from Microsoft, or the MX510 from Logitech. Both compliment the style of the G5 pretty well.
One thing I'll note is that the click-and-hold technique does work with icons in the dock, though it's not often needed (I usually use either Exposé or Cmd-Tab to switch app windows).
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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yay for you!
from personal experience, get applecare!
im having some processor issues right now and onsite service just cant be beat, especially for 3 years.. any problems whatsoever, they come to you!
good luck!
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-Rev. C PowerBook 17" 1.5GHz
-iPod Mini 4gb Silver (Rev. B)
-Gaming Rig: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Manchester, Asus A8N-E, 2 Gig Corsair XMS, nVidia GeForce 7900GT PCI-E, Seagate 320gb Barracuda HDD, Samsung 16X Dual Layer w/ LightScribe, Thermaltake Tsunami, Antec 550W True Power 2.0, Saitek Eclipse Keyboard, Logitech MX518 Gaming Mouse, Samsung 19" 931B.
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