iMac Intel vs. iMac G5

Tuesday, Jan. 17 2006 | Author: jeremy

With an announcement like switching processors, you will see tons of videos like this pop up all over the web. It happened when the G5 replaced the G4, and when the G4 replaced the G3. Now, here is video of an iMac 2Ghz Intel (on the left) and an iMac 2.1Ghz G5 (on the right) booting up. They were both started at the same time, and the results are pretty amazing.

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6 Responses for "iMac Intel vs. iMac G5"

Griffith

January 17th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
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I was a bit sad to see how long the G5 took to boot up. Regardless of how fast the Intel one did.

One of the things that I dislike about Apple is the long start-up time for their OS. At university I once saw a girl booting up her Powerbook, she started talking to a friend besides her while I was doing some stuff on my laptop, I looked back when they stopped talking and it had just finished booting up. It easily took over 2 minutes to start.
evilKat

January 17th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
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Woah. Pretty impressive. Wonder if both machines had the same amt or RAM though…
cliche

January 19th, 2006 at 10:38 am
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The real question is, was the G5 machine clean installed from scratch? I have a feeling that’s where most of the difference comes from.
The Right Answer

February 17th, 2006 at 2:50 am
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If you people believe for a second that that was a clean startup for the imac g5 you have all been fooled. First I note the line “right out of the box” which it obviously wasn’t seeing that it defaulted to a desktop and not the initial settings prompt. Clearly there was something wrong with that g5 seeing that an Apple II could boot faster than that. I refer you to imac g5 v. imac intel part deux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuNPA8IMmQM&search=imac%20intel%20mac%20apple%20g5%20core%20duo
ET

May 12th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
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I have the G5 iMac and it starts up a lot faster than the one in that video.
tj

May 31st, 2006 at 11:11 am
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i have an imac g5 before the inten and before the isight, and my imac has TONS of stuff on it almost a full 200 gigs of my movies.. and my imac opens after then that intel on the left… as many macs i have ever saw they always opened as fast as mine, that one on the right if you ask me must have alot of problems OR was set up to look sor a server and spent tons of times trying to find it untill it saw there was none.. seems like it was planned out to be this way…