Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5GHz (2004)

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4.5 out of 5 Mice, Oct 20, 2004

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Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5GHz (2004) Featuring a liquid cooling system, the dual-2.5 GHz Power Mac G5 is the top of the line of the second round of Power Mac G5 models, which were introduced in June 2004.
Second-Generation Power Mac G5 The new Power Mac G5 dual 2.5GHz is finally here, along with new versions of its dual-2GHz and dual-1.8GHz siblings, and it delivers a substantial, if not earthshaking, speedup. The improvement is noticeable even in mundane tasks like unstuffing files, scrolling through PDF documents, and browsing the Web, but as you’d expect, the benefits are most significant in demanding image- and multimedia-processing work.

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