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Title: Apple releases new models, lowers prices
Post by: WMD on 20 October 2004, 01:03
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/10/19/139256.shtml?tid=180 (http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/10/19/139256.shtml?tid=180)

Summary: 12" iBook upped to 1.2Ghz, down to $999, and Power Mac G5 has a new model, single CPU 1.8Ghz (one in the 20" iMac), starting at $1499.

I took that G5, removed the DVD burner (put in combo), bumped RAM to 512, removed modem, and added an AirPort Extreme and a Radeon 9600XT.  $1574.

Why'd I get a PC some months back?  :(
Title: Apple releases new models, lowers prices
Post by: bedouin on 20 October 2004, 01:53
With educational pricing I was able to get your same configuration for $1,416.  Plus you should get RAM from someone other than Apple.

This is the lowest I've ever seen the entry level PowerMacs.  My 2002 single 800mhz Quicksilver was $1599 without educational pricing, and that was a stock system (standard video, combo-drive, RAM).  You can almost max out this new model and still stay below the old baseline price.

If I hadn't upgraded my machine so much already, I might think of just selling it and buying this model.  I think I'm going to go for a dual 1.3ghz upgrade though and stretch its life out a few more years.  That's the strange thing with Macs: I have some kind of emotional attachment to it where I'd rather just keep upgrading it than buy another, especially since it was my first Mac, aside from old 68ks and Performas I acquired second hand.
Title: Apple releases new models, lowers prices
Post by: WMD on 20 October 2004, 02:05
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Plus you should get RAM from someone other than Apple.

But doesn't Apple RAM have weird timings, so it's harder to get compatible RAM?
Title: Apple releases new models, lowers prices
Post by: bedouin on 20 October 2004, 03:29
No, not unless there's something I don't know about G5s.  Macs have used standard PC RAM for a long time now.  The ram in all my Macs came from Best Buy and similar stores . . .
Title: Apple releases new models, lowers prices
Post by: WMD on 22 October 2004, 05:00
At AnandTech they said that the G5 uses DDR400 timed at 3-3-3-8, which isn't standard.
Title: Apple releases new models, lowers prices
Post by: bedouin on 22 October 2004, 07:43
According to Crucial the G5 just uses ordinary DDR PC3200.  I only looked at the single 1.8ghz and dual 2.5ghz PowerMacs and the iMac G5 though.  You can get that at Best Buy or any other place.  I'd check what the Xserves use but they don't list it.
Title: Apple releases new models, lowers prices
Post by: M51DPS on 23 October 2004, 01:01
Has anyone noticed that Apple boosted the storage for the Xserve RAID (http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid/)? It also looks like they are also going to have another filesystem available called Xsan (http://www.apple.com/xsan/).
Title: Apple releases new models, lowers prices
Post by: WMD on 23 October 2004, 03:51
Oops, yeah I forgot to post that.  (http://redface.gif)