Pros: Powerful, understated styling, rock stable, and very quiet for all but the most demanding tasks. Cons: Some software doesn't take advantage of multiprocessor capabilities. Perceived speed differences depend on tasks.
Apple's top of the line Quad Processor Power Mac is a remarkable engineering feat at a reasonable price point. For processor hungry audio and video applications, it has no peer. I purchased the Quad Mac in December of 2005, and have been very pleased ...
Pros: Stunningly fast; Absolutely stable; Butterfly quiet. Cons: Base configuration of 512MBs RAM is not enough - Needs 1GB or more.
I purchased my Quad Power Mac in late October 2005, and received it four weeks later in late November. I could have received one quicker except I ordered mine with 2GBs of Ram instead of the insufficient 512MBs (2x 256MBs) base configuration. This is ...
Pros: The fastest Mac on the block. Even base configuration rocks. Cons: Expensive, for a marginal real-life speed benefit in many cases.
With OS X, Apple promised a better implementation of multi-processors load sharing, and in fact did deliver on their promise. With the Quad series, one would hope that this improvement would translate into a substantial real-life speed increase. Alas! ...
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