Apple Power Mac G5 Dual (M9457LL/A) Mac Desktop

Pros: Speed, beauty, ease of installation.

Cons: Price, minimal USB 2 ports

The Bottom Line: Great linux-based workstation-level Mac at a high price.

Review: I recently purchased this computer for work in order to perform complex image processing analyses which can take hours or days at a time. This was previously done using PC's running Redhat. The configuration on this G5 was the dual 2.5 processors, 4 GB ...

Pros: OS X (unix rock solid stability), PPC970FX CPU's, 64 bit future, system bandwidth, design/quality

Cons: Price is high. (that's pretty much it)

The Bottom Line: The premier Unix workstation (for the consumer). This is no home computer; large enterprise business uses the same machine (PPC970), and so does the US Army.

Review: This review will evolve as my experience with this Mac evolves. I am coming from a Dual 500 G4, and a PB G4 1.0GHz so the performance leap has been quite impressive. Having said that, I have been playing around with a dual 2.0 also at a friends place ...

Pros: Fast, elegant, superb design

Cons: Pricey yet for its performance. Mostly justified in pro applications.

The Bottom Line: Apparently obsolete as of this writing

Review: When Jobs introduced this machine two years ago, he promised 3 Gigahertz. It's only at 2.7 now, and 3 will probably never get here; Jobs has announced barely two weeks ago that all newly designed systems will use, gasp, Intel processors. Well, this ...

Pros: Liquid internal cooling system. Wicked Fast

Cons: none

Review: Simply unbelievable. Dual Processors that make speed nothing. OS X the most advanced operating system in the world. A LOT better than that dell you got for 400$. No comparison at all. Apple just ripped it. I Give this product a Thumbs ...

Pros: fast and it is a mac

Cons: noisy, poorly made

Review: I have a 2.7 G5 dual , my second (the first was the 2G) and this is much more noisy and within 48 hours after I have put all my material on the hard drive the CD drive jams. I need to work on this and cannot afford to not have it for the week or two of ...

Pros: Very fast, great graphics, beautiful design.

Cons: Processors and logic boards are failing after 3-4 years on this VERY expensive machine.

Review: This was a great computer until it died.  These machines are dropping dead all over the country and Apple won't do anything about it.  Don't go near any liquid cooled G5 machines with a ten foot pole!Hundreds of machines have failed in ...

Pros: Good speed, stable OS

Cons: our superdrive broke after one single use

Review: when we first opened the box we were all excited , we set up the pc and that was that.... I had never seen such an amazing desktop with such speed.... i would have to say that this was the best computer my family had ever purchased.... we used it only ...