Apple Upgrades

By Thomas Marshall · October 23, 2005 ·

Powermac
These now have 4 processors instead of 2. The chips are now dual core. This means in basic tersm that in each processor chip there are two independant processors. So two sets of two makes for. This makes them almost twice as fast as they were before. You can also now have 8 20″ or 23″ screens connected to one of these computers if you have a powerful enough graphics card to do that. The top of the range G5 box will set you back £2300. And more for a really powerful graphics card. You can also have 16gb of high performance RAM. So most people could have all the music that they have on their computer put into a G5’s RAM and it would still run smoothly.
Powerbook
The 17″ model will now display a maximum resolution of 1680x1050. This is also a widescreen resolution. Which it a lot since you are probably viewing this at 1024x768. This graphics card will also run an external 30″ cinema display if you happen to have one of those. The 17″ model also has a 120gb hard drive and weighs in at a tidy 3.1kg! One final thing that you can do, if you have a 15″ or 17″ then you can swap the battery in it without turning it off, just put it to sleep and change without having to save your work!