Is this true?
Do they need to have proof?
What is this statement based on?

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They have advertised on tv, but they say "the fastest most powerfull home computer"

Is this true?
Do they need to have proof?
What is this statement based on?

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http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/28/1346251&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=181

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Schycology. (I hate spelling!)

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ok .. thats definately got me confused ...

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Most likely your entire Colledge would be banned from seeing it if a person from your IP range did something bad. Usually it requires your ISP to contact the site and ask for thier network being allowed back.

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shaktiman

other than that, yeah the G5 is the frist "personal computer" that's 64bit and stuff, and even if it's late to the 64bit game "per se" then it's still freakin' fast

I really do see a difference between server, workstation, business and home desktops (other than in Apple's products). Mostly I see this in the peesee market, where they are marketed to different people, they do have different FCC classifications (which is why an Xserve might not be allowed in "the home" (I don'tk now if it's FCC for home or office use)
In addition to that, they make "server" "workstation" "PC" and "Business PC" at different qualities, going from best to worst in the order denoted above

Most consumer products when relating to electronics are rated for both home and office use. I believe where the big difference lies in the standards committees is the Industrial and Home/Office use, which in this case, the G5 would not have a proper rating for Industrial use, and would have to be evaluated. Even Apple does not warrant it's products for such use where it's an automated system where lives can be at risk.

That's why alot of computer products these days have a mixed rating or SOHO use, where by standards rating, a device is ready for home or office. To the IT folks the quality they need is usually not handed out by FCC or other standards branches but by independant testors who will rate products which have been designed exclusively for high input/output or profesional use. For example, when buying a Server Class SCSI drive, you will be paying the extra money for better heat resistance, better parts and more quality assurance from the company who has taken every step to ensure the drive will be 99.99% non downtime.

For home products alot of saftey checks (named thus for the safety of data etc.) are skipped because a homeuser does not rely on the drive as much as a huge company who is storing millions of dollars worth of data and who would be really upset if it died. Which is why many home products have a higher rate of RMA.

Apple is playing the Intel/PC game with the G5, by making it seem that people have never been able to get a 64-bit computer. Because frankly, most people won't pay attention to the words "personal computer" but instead listen to the hype about it's underhood components and 64-bit this and that.

The only people I can see who really benefit from a G5 are those who are in prepress, graphics and animations who do such in freelance. I don't see any urgent need for people to dump the machine they have to get a Rectangular Metal WasteBasket. (Beause to the average user all that jargon goes in one ear and out the other)

Supercomputers are nice, but they are not going to solve any of our problems, in fact if you have any problems on a machine it will be twice as fast to make mistakes as your last one. So, we keep going faster and faster without doing anything to keep things stable.

If Apple can design a fast compuyer that has no extra luggage, no extra Eye Candy and stands out as a slim, mean and functional machine that gets what you want done without any fancy heroics or antics, then they can capture the market. But right now when I look at Mac OS X and the machines, it seems X and XP both are in a pissing contest to see how many bells and whistles and candies they can stuff in without crashing a machine from all the bloat. And users are gonna puke one day over all of it, cause hey, too much candy makes you sick.

So that's my rant on stupid computers that have no real place in this world no matter how fast they are. I can still only type at 50 words a minute. :/

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Most consumer products when relating to electronics are rated for both home and office use. I believe where the big difference lies in the standards committees is the Industrial and Home/Office use, which in this case, the G5 would not have a proper rating for Industrial use, and would have to be evaluated.

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