But for those still on modems, I think this is a real issue-you’d almost have to take the machine into a dealer, or to a friend’s house with a fast connection.Īfter the software updates (and a firmware upgrade), I rebooted and the machine ran perfectly. Thankfully, we’ve recently switched to Verizon’sįIOS, so download time wasn’t a problem. Yikes! If you’re on dial-up, you’re looking at 16-plus hours until your new Mac Pro is ready to go. And even though the actual machines are identical in size, the Mac Pro’s box dwarfs that of the G5 (even accounting for the difference in orientation):Īdd those figures up, and you’ll see that it comes in at over 415MB worth of data. But where the G5 shipped lying on its side in a flatter box, the new Mac Pro ships standing upright in its box. Well, I thought I was used to large boxes. (I’ll talk more about the card and its performance in upcoming installments of this report.) The out-of-the-box experienceĪs a first-generation Dual G5 owner, I’m used to large boxes. The optional ATI card is quite the beast, and really increases the graphics performance of the machine. Standard Mac Pro configuration features an Nvidia GeForce 7300GT with 256MB of memory. I was surprised (and happy!) to find the upgraded ATI video card in the machine-the A wired Apple keyboard and Mighty Mouse.One standard 16x dual-layer SuperDrive and.ATI Radeon X1900XT video card with 512MB of memory.
The Mac Pro arrived last week, after trucking its way up Interstate 5 from Macworld ’s San Francisco office (where it was given a quick look-see and gained the all-important Macworld asset tag).
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