Compare Apple Power Macintosh G4 (M8359LL/A) Mac Desktop to Apple Mac Pro (MB871LL/A) Mac Desktop

Buckle up - the Power Mac G4 is here. It features the revolutionary PowerPC G4 with Velocity Engine, which crunches multimedia data at blazing-fast speeds. The Velocity Engine uses true independent vector processing - a technology originally developed for use in scientific supercomputers. It gives you the power you need to create and manipulate even the most complex graphics files. The result is unprecedented productivity for creative professionals - in the arts as well as the sciences.??Apple designed the Power Mac G4 for creative professionals who use computers as the pivotal tool of their trade, setting the pace of their work, their productivity, even their success. With its blazing-fast speed and convention-crushing design, the Power Mac G4 picks up where the best-selling Power Macintosh G3 left off. The Power Mac G4 is so powerful that its speed is measured in gigaflops, or billions of floating-point operations per second, just like supercomputers. At the heart of this system ... Less

The system is powered by a single quad-core Intel Xeon 3500 CPU running at a clockspeed of 2.66GHz. This "Quad-Core" configuration gives you up to 4 times the processing power of a single CPU, making it an ideal solution for mission critical applications. The system also boasts 3GB of RAM, 640GB hard drive capacity, Apple's SuperDrive DVD burner with dual-layer disc support, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR for wireless device connectivity, and nVIDIA GeForce GT 120 graphics with 512MB of memory. Less