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my "fifth element" has arrived!
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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hello all,
I'm experiencing the so called "I've got a G5 DP 2.0" hype 
I'm so glad! it's my fifth mac and it was a jump from a PM G4 400 AGP...
Let me tell you that just opening the box was worth it!, the style!, everything in its place...
When I plugged the "beast", the speed is incredible, although I only really notice the speed increase when opening programs, working, etc, because compared to my old G4, it's not that fast when opening windows, and small system stuff (incredible, hein?)
The G5 came with the Radeon 9600 XT, and it still has the factory 512 MB of RAM, which I'll upgrade with another 1GB soon...
The funny thing (and after reading some of the threads about it in this forum), is that system profiler tells me that the processors are the old ones (powerpc g5 2,2), and some other programs tell me that they are the 2,3...
I've checked the serial number, and the factory date is Feb!
Nevermind, it's a great buy!
BTW, it's heavy as hell, and when the fans fire-up, looks like a vacuum cleaner 
fortunately I haven't got the fan franzy with 10.3.8
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Salzburg, Austria
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Grats!
One hint though - get more ram... fast!
I recently got a 2.5 Dual and ran it for one day with the factory 512MB, it was quite disturbing since my 17" Rev C Powebook with 1GB RAM seemed to run circles around the new G5.
I just threw in 4GB of Samsung RAM, and MAN! This thing flies. Love it.
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"The road to success is dotted with the most tempting parking spaces."
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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I know that, I wrote already that I'll get an extra 1GB of RAM, obviously I would prefer to have more 4 GB as you did 
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: The Internets
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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BIG BADABUM!
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Arizona Wasteland
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Originally posted by Madrag:
The funny thing (and after reading some of the threads about it in this forum), is that system profiler tells me that the processors are the old ones (powerpc g5 2,2), and some other programs tell me that they are the 2,3...
Evidence shows Apple is using a mix of 970 and 970FX currently.
One way to tell for sure is to issue the following command in terminal
ioreg -l | grep 'cpu-version'
"cpu-version" = <00390202> (970)
"cpu-version" = <003c0300> (970FX)
If you have two processors you will see two lines (one for each)
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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that's true, but some apps tell me that I have the powerPC 7,3 and not the 7,2...
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Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Plainview, NY
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Originally posted by osxisfun:
multipass.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Theory - everything works in theory
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Congrats!
Now that you bought a machine, new models should be in early next month  I kid, I kid of course 
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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they might, but a project that I'm working on payed for it, so...
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