Hardware Apple Power Mac G5 Desktop M9749LL/A

Description: Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5, 1.35 GHz per processor, 512 MB expandable to 8 GB, 250 GB Hard Drive, 16x Double-Layer SuperDrive, ATI Radeon 9650 with 256 MB DDR SDRAM, One FireWire 800 port, two FireWire 400 ports; three USB 2.0 ports, two USB 1.1 ports; AGP 8X Pro slot with graphics card installed, Software includes Mac OS X version 10.4 Tiger, iLife, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive,QuickBooks New User, Zinio Reader, Xcode Developer Tools Supported by: Mac OS X Availability: This item is currently not available. Average customer rating: 4.5 Sales rank: 78 Customer Reviews Dual G5 Two Thumbs Up I have used ever single personal computer that has ever came up till today from Sinclairs, Amstrads, Commodores to todays PC’s. Personal computers have never been so diverse and simple at the same time. The beauty of this machine not only comes from its processing power but also comes from the operating system. It’s a unique system, a combination of software and hardware, extremely powerful, not to mention the every bit of cool design in it. I am a power user, to be more secific 3D animator and i am working on Maya. If i’d say that MAC has changed my life, that would pretty much sum it up. Even the World’s Best Computer is Not Perfect… Okay. We all know that Apple / Microsoft, Mac OS X / Windows, have had a war going on ever since they were invented. I have been reading reviews for a long time, and I have been a Mac and PC use for a long time. For those of you who read this reviews to gather infromation o whether or not to by a product, then I am here to help you with something. First off, I would like to thank the guy at the bottom of these reviews, (the one from Sydney) for pointing out things that are in fact true. OS X is based on Unix, and the OS X techlonogy was not completely orginal, it came from a comany before Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the Late-90s. But all of that is a huge History of the Mac archive. If you really want to find out what the whole tale of Mac OS X is, then I suggest you start reading some of the books on Steve Jobs. Now onto the Mac itself. The Mac is a simple design, it is made to just work, which it does when taken care of. I have used every single Mac on today’s current line-up. (iMac G5, iBook G4, Powerbook G4, Mac mini, PowermAc G5, and iPod models from 3rd Generation all the way up to the current iPod nano.) They all run pretty much the same, the ones that preform less are simply not as advanced as those who preform better. I currently own a Late-2001 iBook G3, which is entirley obsolete copared to todays Apple machines, and it is still working exactly like it did the day that i took it out of the box. But keep in mind, great care has been put into this machine to keep it running at optimal preformance. I will not lie, not all computers are perfect. My iBook freezes, has internal system problems, it has good days and bad days; just like any other computer out there. Macs are not perfect, they have their flaws, but you will find that they are more concrete than your regular PC. Now, being a long time Mac user, I know how to repair many problems that come up, and they are small problems, things that happen all the time in any computer. But for some, and there is not a problem with this, they simply do not know how to fix them; therefore, they say that Macs are a piece of crap and should be destroyed. It all comes with knowledge. If you know how to solve a problem, then you solve it. It is when you don’t know, that you give up and call whatever you are angry at a piece of crap. Still, I cannot choose your purchase for you, I can only tell you what the turh is. If you take the time to learn about your Mac, if you come to know how to repair problems that might occur, and if you treat it with care on both the hardware and software, you will find that the Mac will last until it becomes obselete from the technology around it. LOL @ Apple-bashers Was dupped for 10+ years by PC (PieceCrap) before I saw the light with Apple. Could never really understand until I drove one for a while. Will never look back now. Apple is the real deal. Listening to the Apple-bashers hear is like listening to a bunch of people who drive Ford Pintos complain about Porsches. LOL