On Friday I got lucky and got about an hour on a pre-production PowerMac G5 (dual 2 gigahertz) with 2 gigs of RAM and I put it to some tests using Photoshop 7, Final Cut Pro 4 and Soundtrack. I was duly impressed with performance, stability and speed. The machine is huge (think Daystar machine size) but it is very quiet! The model I got access to (and the few others like it, apparently) have to travel around the country with an official Apple rep (like a G5 guard), but I didn't have to sign any NDA nor was I asked to keep my experience confidential.
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