Apple Power Mac Desktop M8840LL/A (1.25-GHz DP PowerPC G4, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive)Platform: Mac OS X
Brand: Apple
Binding: Personal Computers
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Awesome [Posted on 2003-03-03]
Extremely happy with this machine. No excessive fan noise other than a quick turbo-blast when I restart the machine when I ahve had it on for hours at a time. Which is to be expected since with two processors it gets very hot. I've installed 4 internal hard drives (taken from my B&W G3) with no problem. The new internal drive carriers are great too. Here's a benchmark I noticed on my own for ripping MP3s: Typically rips MP3s at 17x and can do an entire CD of 12 songs in 3 1/2 minutes. My blue and white G3 would crank them out at 3-5x. All-in-all it's a great machine - I strongly recommend it...
Great computer -- and quiet, too [Posted on 2003-03-21]
I purchased and received a 1.25 ghz Power Mac G4 from the Apple Store Japan. Except for an issue with it not wanting to work with a ATA Raid card that operated fine in my old Quicksilver dual 1 ghz, the machine has been perfect. Since it was a "mirror door" series, I had steeled myself for the possibility that the noise level would be high, but I was pleasantly surprised to find it MUCH quieter than my Quicksilver -- about half as quiet, actually, based on side by side comparisons while copying files from my old machine to my new. So clearly, Apple has bent over backwards to find a reliable fix for the problems with this machine. The new G4s are super fast, not noisy at all, and sport many great features. If you've been holding out for a "quieter" G4 tower, this is it.
PowerMac 1.25GHz compromises [Posted on 2003-04-21]
I bought a Dual 1.25GHz upgrading from a Dual 500 G4. I really love Macintosh computers and the Dual 1.25GHz runs about 250% faster than my Dual 500MHz. Using Retrospect I was able to get backup transfer rates between the 80GB and a 120GB I installed in the ATA66 cage of 1000 bytes a second. I only get 500 on my G4 500. Everything is faster. That is the good side. On the negative side the first 1.25GHz I recieved would not power up. The 2nd unit had a dieseling fan noise and a bad video card. The video would work but when using Apples DVD player it would crash the Mac as the DVD player looks for hardware in the ATI 9000 that was not working in my card. The other problem is heat. I measured a continual 110-112 in the DVD bay and found when you add a SuperDrive Apples metal DVD bay cover blocks the fan on the SuperDrive. Not using the cover subjects your cables to possible slicing from the sharp processor fins. With heat this high I would expect higher failure rates in the SuperDrive. I also measured 103 to 116 degrees in the rear hard drive bay without a 2nd drive installed in that cage. Installing a 2nd drive would increase heat even more. If I had it to do over I would skip the Dual 1.25GHz FW800 PowerMac as a result of these design problems. I would rather have a quite and well cooled G4 500 Dual than components in a box that seems very warm to me. I hope the next model PowerMac has a cooler designed case so I can once again recommend it.
oooh....shiny [Posted on 2003-06-12]
this computer performs incredibly. i use it for rendering digital video in final cut, and it cuts rendering times down to a fraction of what they were before. but i must say that with all the speed and flashy performance, and all the wonderful features packed into this magnificent machine, i hate it's guts. it's all thanks to the shiny mirrored drive doors. i abhor them. i am endlessly wiping them down to remove the finger prints and smudges that destroy the sheer beauty of my wonder computer. the truly terrible part is that they are not my fingerprints. everyone who walks by has to experience the glittering splendor physically. this burden of shiny perfection is too much for one mortal to bear....
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