Mainstream G5 Press - The Globe And Mail Is Impressed

by , 10:00 AM EDT, June 26th, 2003

The Globe And Mail, a Canadian newspaper, has published a piece about the new Power Mac G5 that Apple announced on Monday. The author goes over the machine itself, as well as the "megahertz gap" that it is supposed to address. He goes on to compare the new G5 to the G4, and the old Photoshop-only bake-offs to the new varied tests. From the article:

Starting in August, a new 64-bit processor co-developed by Apple and IBM, will bring unprecedented speed and performance to the Mac platform. According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the new PowerMac G5 is "the world's fastest personal computer" -- faster than any system using Intel's Pentium 4 or Xeon processors.

For several years, Apple fans have watched in dismay as the "megahertz gap" widened between PCs and Macs. Monday's introduction of a truly speedy Macintosh was thrilling news for Mac users. With the PowerMac G5, it appears that Apple and IBM have actually surpassed current Intel technology and built a platform that has "legs" for the future.

The PowerMac G5 is definitely built for speed. The G5 processor can handle more than 10 times as many simultaneous instructions as Motorola's G4 processor (215 versus 16). The "pipes" that take data to and from the G5 "brain" have been redesigned for better performance.

You can read the full article at The Globe And Mail's Web site.

The Mac Observer Spin:

There's nothing earth shattering in the Globe and Mail piece, but what's important in the grand scheme of thing is how the mainstream press shows the new G5 to the rest of the world. While the geek community argues about the right way to do benchmarks, the rest of the world -- the part of the world that buys most of the computers sold -- is going to form their opinions of Apple's new power house largely from mainstream reports. Accordingly, this report is good coverage for Apple and the G5.

The Globe And Mail