Sunday, October 23, 2005


Quad Power
The past two years have shown a decent amount of press about AMD & Intel moving to dual-core processors and 64-bit processing for the PC. (Intel's Pentium D has two Pentium 4 CPU's on one chip). Now mind you, IBM has been churning out 64-bit processing chips at least since it started producing G5's for Apple computers and Apple has been making dual processors computers since the G4 chips.

But now Apple kicks it up a notch by creating the Power Mac G5 Quad ($3300) which features two independent dual-core G5's (i.e four processing cores). This is probably the ultimate personal computer out there right now. Couple that with the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display ($2500) and you have a beauty of a monster that would set you back $5800 and the power to handle files of all those high-end software that Apple makes (Logic, Soundtrack, Motion, Final Cut, Shake, DVD Studio, Aperture), let alone Adobe's Photoshop CS2, Alias's Maya, Propellerhead's Reason, and etc.

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