G5 Arrived

My G5 arrived Wednesday. I had a midterm exam and a project due on Thursday, so I only took it out of the box and admired its industrial design on Wednesday night. (Observation: The Power Mac G5 has a very supple power cord. :-)) On Thursday night I got down to business and hooked up the G5.

So far, I am extremely pleased with the G5. I haven't done any major benchmarks or stress tests, but I have been unable to find anything at which it is less than very responsive. Almost all apps launch in two bounces or less, project compilation is speedy, and activating a background app is instantaneous. (I did install an additional 512 MB of memory, bringing it up to 1 GB.) All of this is a very welcome improvement over my aging 400 MHz PowerBook G4.