On a brand spankin' new 1.8 G5
-nothing new really with 10.2.7, but for those of you who have been toiling with lower end G4s and G3s, and have been waiting for a machine worth the dinero, this is what you've been waiting for. Finally OS X feels darned speedy. My main complaint about OS X compared to 9/Linux/Windows was that it felt sluggish even on high end hardware. I will complain no more.
G5 + X is what we've been waiting for (now if apple could just make it truly affordable)...
Anyway, most of the normal annoying bottlenecks (like sorting by kind in the finder) seem to be gone. Photoshop (the only app that seems specifically optimized for the G5) flies. Everything else is speedy, but not unusually so. The main difference is that you don't get those random pauses that seemed to happen so often on all the other machines (even high end dual g4s)... The most impressive thing is the G5s is its ability to walk and chew gum at the same time (like copying thousands of files in the background over a network with seemingly no performance hit in Safari or Photoshop)
Oddly the only thing that seems slow is unmounting disk images (old spinning wheel) while doing other disk activity. This almost seems slower than on my old machine. Odd.
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My only other G5 complaints so far are:
1. If you happen to drag a file across the iphoto window the cursor still slows to a crawl while the machine thinks and
2. Airport reception blows. My base station is 20 feet away from me and the G5 still has a hard time getting a good signal. Also the antenna mars an otherwise stunning engineering job. The internals of this machine have to be seen in person to be believed. My only worry is that the thing is going to be a big dust trap and all that internal plexy is going to look
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