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ADC and DVI connectors
DVI to VGA adapter included
Expansion
Slots
Four 3.5-inch hard drive bays (one filled)
Two optical drive bay (one filled)
Four 64-bit, 33MHz PCI
One AGP 4X (filled)
One drive bay (filled)
One optical drive bay ( filled)
1 CardBus slot
One AGP 4X (fixed)
Two hard drive bays (one filled)
One optical drive bay (filled)
One 133MHz, 64-bit PCI-X slot
Two 100MHz, 64-bit PCI-X slots
One AGP Pro 8X (filled)
Hard Drive
60 GB Ultra ATA/100
7200 rpm
20GB Ultra ATA 66
(4200 rpm)
160GB Serial ATA
7200 rpm
Optical Drive
Combination Drive (DVD/CD-RW)
Reads DVDs at 8x
Writes CD-R at 16x
Writes CD-RW at 10x
Reads CDs at 32x
Combination Drive (DVD/CD-RW)
Reads DVDs at 8x
Writes CD-R at 8x
Writes CD-RW at ?
Reads CDs at 24x
SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
Writes DVD-R at 4x
Reads DVDs at 8x
Writes CD-R at 16x
Writes CD-RW at 10x
Reads CDs at 32x
Connectivity & Communication
Optional 11-Mbps AirPort Card
(802.11b)
10/100/1000BaseT
56k V.92 internal modem
No Bluetooth
Optional 11-Mbps AirPort Card
10/100/1000BaseT
56k V.92 internal modem
No Bluetooth
Optional 54 Mbps AirPort Extreme
(802.11g )
10/100/1000BaseT
56k V.92 internal modem
Optional Bluetooth 1.1 module and antenna
Ports
Two USB 1 Ports
No FireWire 800 port
2 FireWire 400 Ports
Stereo analog audio line in and line out minijacks
Two USB 1 Ports
No FireWire 800 port
1 FireWire 400 Ports
Infrared Port
Three USB 2.0 ports (one on front)
1 FireWire 800 port
2 FireWire 400 ports (one on front)
Stereo audio in and out minijacks
Optical digital audio in and out Toslink connectors
Specification Notes
The G4 machine is OS 9 bootable, the G5 is not.
Performance
Machine
Power Mac G4/867 MHz
Dual Processor
PowerBook G4/550 MHz
Single Processor
Power Mac G5/1.8 GHz
Dual Processor
Processor Dual
162.87 seconds
460.20 seconds - - 183% Slower (estimate)
74.48 seconds - - 54% faster
Graphics
38 frames per second
Not enough data
79 frames per second - - 108% faster
Drive
127.78 seconds (estimate)
343.14 seconds - - 215% Slower (estimate)
93.69 seconds - - 27% faster
General - Interface
34.99 seconds
71.60 seconds - - 105% Slower
17.19 seconds - - 51% faster
Notes
Where there is (est.), it means that we estimated these scores from data we had, but could not make a direct comparison between the two machines. We think that we are in the ballpark, but the scores may not be spot on.
Very few applications to date have been written to take advantage of the new G5 processor. The performance gap between the G4 and the G5 processors should continue to grow as more applications are tuned for the new processor.
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