One fine saturday afternoon, i called on my extremely wealthy geeky freind. (whose personal config is : AMD Athlon 64FX, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 9800XT, 17" LCD and lots more worth 1.2 lakh !)
He told me that is father wanted to buy a PC. In this house money is no issue. He had suggested the P4EE as it was very fast, but his dad told him he didn't wan't windows. Now he wanted the PC for purely leisure purposes and nothing high end at all. But he wanted a fast one ! OK I thought. No windows means Linux. However his father is a rather soft-spoken gentleman and I thought that if he saw the Linux terminal window and all its other applications he might faint.
I returned home and opened Digit (Aug. 04 Pg. 80 to be precise) I saw the G5 review. Perfect ! No windows and very very fast. I told my freind.
He told his dad who instantly agreed.
It arrived last week. I was invited for the installation ceremony. The guys from Apple were there. My freind already owns a 30GB iPod. His dad has a IBM wireless notebook. So he asked them to set up a wi-fi network around the house !
Finally they opened the box. A silver cabinet emerged with a huge huge 21" LCD. The connections were made and I could feel the adrenaline flowing through my body. The mains were switched on and the machine hummed to life. The display is gorgeous. Mac OS 10.3 loaded and the GUI is terrific. You have to see it to believe it. Everything was set and we connected to the net. The system is fast. Really fast (with dual IBM Power PC 2Ghz CPU's it has to be) i went home at 10:30. But i coudn't sleep till 4AM. My last wish was "if only it would run win xp and i could play half-life 2 on it !!!"
He told me that is father wanted to buy a PC. In this house money is no issue. He had suggested the P4EE as it was very fast, but his dad told him he didn't wan't windows. Now he wanted the PC for purely leisure purposes and nothing high end at all. But he wanted a fast one ! OK I thought. No windows means Linux. However his father is a rather soft-spoken gentleman and I thought that if he saw the Linux terminal window and all its other applications he might faint.
I returned home and opened Digit (Aug. 04 Pg. 80 to be precise) I saw the G5 review. Perfect ! No windows and very very fast. I told my freind.
He told his dad who instantly agreed.
It arrived last week. I was invited for the installation ceremony. The guys from Apple were there. My freind already owns a 30GB iPod. His dad has a IBM wireless notebook. So he asked them to set up a wi-fi network around the house !
Finally they opened the box. A silver cabinet emerged with a huge huge 21" LCD. The connections were made and I could feel the adrenaline flowing through my body. The mains were switched on and the machine hummed to life. The display is gorgeous. Mac OS 10.3 loaded and the GUI is terrific. You have to see it to believe it. Everything was set and we connected to the net. The system is fast. Really fast (with dual IBM Power PC 2Ghz CPU's it has to be) i went home at 10:30. But i coudn't sleep till 4AM. My last wish was "if only it would run win xp and i could play half-life 2 on it !!!"
