Mac Pro

Review @ Ars Technica | Apple

Zitat

Unlike the transition from the Power Macintosh G5 to the Mac Pro, the change from the first- to second-generation Mac Pro is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Apple has stuck with the same exterior form factor that it has used for going on five years (the G5 was originally introduced in July 2003), and the interiors of the two machines are all but identical in layout and appearance.

I like the Mac Pro's interior. It's trivially easy to add additional hard drives, an extra DVD burner, and memory. The drive carriers introduced with the original Mac Pro are fantastic—it takes less than a minute to install a new drive in the tower. The memory risers are also easy to use. You'll need to be careful when installing additional memory in the Mac Pro. FB-DIMMs need to be paired and after writing the review, I added two more 2GB FB-DIMMs to the system. I had to move the 1GB FB-DIMM in the bottom riser next to the 1GB chip in the top riser and install the 2GB FB-DIMMs in the just-vacated slot and the one next to it.

Going from a pair of dual-core Xeon 5150s to a pair of four-core Xeon 5472s resulted in a noticeable performance boost, and Stoakley's frontside bus speed improvements are also apparent. In short, this is a blazing fast machine. If you're still chugging along with a G5 or have decided that Apple's other desktop lines don't meet your needs (e.g., you want more than a single internal hard drive or need to hook up more than two monitors), the Mac Pro is hard to beat in terms of performance.

Zitat von fatmike182

Irgendwie solltens das Teil aber mal in ein leiseres Case stecken.

sie haben ihn mittlerweile eh schon verdammt leise bekommen.
ich finde das Design passt und ist funktionell (die "Käsereibe/Sieb"-Front )

also wenn ich ihn mit dem Heissluftgebläse von Dual 2.5er G5 vergleiche den ich hier am Arbeitsplatz stehen hab... das sind Welten... und gegenüber der letzten Intel-Revision haben sie auch noch etwas gut gemacht obwohl die schon nicht mehr so laut waren. Mit einer fetten Graka kann ich es halt nicht bewerten aber da sollte sich ja auch der Kühler tauschen lassen...