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yasashiku · 2005-10-19, 15:51

Apple suggests some Apple Stores should have these models today or tomorrow available for demo and purchase.

Anyone seen them? Checked if they'll be quad-upgradeable (or missing the socket)? Or best of all, benchmarked one.

2005-10-20, 00:46

I was just able to pick up a dual core 2.0 tonight. Sales guy said they came in last night. I haven't had a chance to run any benchmarks, but just on a quick eyeballing, it seems to be about the same speed as the Dual Proc 2.0. Might be a little bit quicker. I just threw in another gig of DDR2 as well. Protools LE session with 9 tracks and about 15 or so plugins running was putting up about a 30% processor load.

Brad · 2005-10-20, 01:21

Xbench scores for the new Macs:

http://media.99mac.se/g5_dualcore/

yasashiku · 2005-10-20, 09:41

The pictures seem to show a radiator on the dualcore 2.0/2.3. Is yours liquid cooled, or is that just a radiator for a heatpipe?

Seems people are having trouble installing apps that require an AGP video card, like FCP 4.5.

yasashiku · 2005-10-20, 11:49

Found that the dualcore 2.0/2.3's still seem to be air-cooled. I'm sure the Quad will need liquid, just as the old 2.5's were.

The dualcore's also can't be upgraded to Quad, because they're missing the socket connection:

http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/4192/missing9hu.jpg

This is just like the single 1.8 G5's:

http://www.macsecrets.com/2003/img/m...ardG58slot.jpg

2005-10-20, 11:56

FCP 4.5 will run just fine if you edit the info.plist file in there. Just remove the reference to AGP. Worked for me.

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yasashiku New Member Join Date: Sep 2005	2005-10-19, 15:51 Apple suggests some Apple Stores should have these models today or tomorrow available for demo and purchase. Anyone seen them? Checked if they'll be quad-upgradeable (or missing the socket)? Or best of all, benchmarked one.
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Brad Selfish Heathen administrator Join Date: May 2004 Location: Zone of Pain	2005-10-20, 01:21 Xbench scores for the new Macs: http://media.99mac.se/g5_dualcore/
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yasashiku New Member Join Date: Sep 2005	2005-10-20, 09:41 The pictures seem to show a radiator on the dualcore 2.0/2.3. Is yours liquid cooled, or is that just a radiator for a heatpipe? Seems people are having trouble installing apps that require an AGP video card, like FCP 4.5.
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yasashiku New Member Join Date: Sep 2005	2005-10-20, 11:49 Found that the dualcore 2.0/2.3's still seem to be air-cooled. I'm sure the Quad will need liquid, just as the old 2.5's were. The dualcore's also can't be upgraded to Quad, because they're missing the socket connection: http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/4192/missing9hu.jpg This is just like the single 1.8 G5's: http://www.macsecrets.com/2003/img/m...ardG58slot.jpg
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vix9	2005-10-20, 11:56 FCP 4.5 will run just fine if you edit the info.plist file in there. Just remove the reference to AGP. Worked for me.
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