About G5 Fever…

I added a section to the ComputerZone entitled “G5 Fever”. I want to make the section a one stop shopping place for G5 information as we watch it evolve. I will provide commentary and links to other websites and G5 performance tests as I dig them up (with proper credit for where I found them) or run them myself. The story of the G5 is just beginning to be told.

While I’m on that subject, if you haven’t seen it already, PC Magazine ran a review of the G5. The performance numbers were pretty good, even if they didn’t back up Jobs claim that the G5 is the fastest personal computer around today. The reviewer and I agree that the G5 is on par (call that “competitive”) with the fastest PC’s. That said, Mike over at AccelerateYourMac wondered if the magazine used the G5’s automatic or best performance energy saver settings. My money is that it was in auto, the default, either purposefully or because they didn’t know that an energy saver setting could actually affect the machine’s performance. That’s behavior you might expect out of a laptop but not a desktop unless you knew it was there. It’s also something I don’t know I’d expect a PC magazine to be aware of unless they’ve been following the G5 from day one.