If you had the money, which Mac would you buy today?

[MegaSignal]

A great thread indeed

Very simply:

A new Rev B dual 2.0 with 4G of RAM (all 512 sticks from Crucial), BT, AE. It would be my "work" machine, located in my den; impressive; powerful.

-AND-

A new Rev A iMac G5 20" with 2G RAM (as soon as Crucial gets more stock of these 1G sticks), BT, AE. It would be in the bedroom...quiet; sleek; sexy; powerful...

 

[floatingspirit]

I'd get a 20 inch powerbook G5

 

[furrina]

If it were free, I would immediately grab:

Dual 2.5GHz PowerPC G5
1.25GHz frontside bus/processor
512K L2 cache/processor
512MB DDR400 SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA
8x SuperDrive
Three PCI-X Slots
ATI Radeon 9600 XT
128MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem

Of course.
but since I just recently bought:

15" PB 1.5 1 GB ram
23" Al display
2 160 GB ext FW 800 hard drives
bluetooth kb + mousie

So I'm experiencing a state of wallet anorexia. I love my PB though, it has been doing quite a job with at least the capture and transfer of big video files. Surfs the web and reads email pretty speedily too . But imagine the render speed of the G5 dual. sigh.

 

[raynegus]

If you had the money, which Mac would you buy today?

What Mac? Hell, I'd buy a BIG mac, with tomatoes, lettuce, onions, and cheeeeeeese! Damn I'm hungry. I got the money! Hell, I'm gonna go get one right now.

 

[Hemingray]

What Mac? Hell, I'd buy a BIG mac, with tomatoes, lettuce, onions, and cheeeeeeese! Damn I'm hungry. I got the money! Hell, I'm gonna go get one right now.

A Big Mac with Tomatoes?

Big Macs come with cheese, lettuce, onions, pickles, and "special sauce".

And now I'M hungry. Thanks!

 

[wdlove]

A Big Mac with Tomatoes?

Big Macs come with cheese, lettuce, onions, pickles, and "special sauce".

And now I'M hungry. Thanks!

You both should try a heathy alternative of chicken, fish, fruits, and vegetables. Preferably at a restaurant other than McDonald's or other fast food restaurants. Its the fried food and fat. Your body will thank you and you will be around longer to enjoy your Mac.

 

[Apple Hobo]

I would like to update my post.

I would get an übercluster consisting of XServes or something like VT's G5 setup. Then I would place them in one of those abandoned ICBM missile silos that you can buy for a low price. I would use them to to become Overlord of Folding@Home and eventually the entire world! muahahahahahaha!

 

[vollspacken]

Then I would place them in one of those abandoned ICBM missile silos that you can buy for a low price.

cool..!

how much, where???

I want one

vSpacken

 

[homerjward]

id start a big ol collection. 512k, lc 2 (remember 'em from 3rd grade), rev a imac, one of every flavor of slot-loading, snow 700mhz imac, g3b&w, 17" 1.25ghz imac, mac portable, tangerine ibook, 12"pb rev c 17"pb rev c (both fully loaded with 7ke60's)and an imac g5 20" with a 73gb raptor and the one i would use: g5 2.5 plus ae, bt, 2 raptor drives, big disk extreme, 6800 ultra, 2x30inchers, 4gb of ram, a lacie dual layer burner in the optical bay...i can dream cant i?

 

[MacMarino]

All the Above!

Without the worry about money, i'd have to go for a top of the range PM G5 with all the trimmings and 2 30in displays, well just because I could. One of those would be mounted up on the wall for when I wanted to watch DVD's and the other for regular computing use. But then it would also all be a question of space too. Where the heck can I place 2 30in screens?

Macmarino

 

[Manzana]

PB - 15"1.5GHz PowerPC G4
2GB RAM
80GB 5400rpmUltra ATA/100
ATI 9700 (128MB)
Backlit keyboard
Gigabit Ethernet
FireWire 400 & 800
AirPort Ex + BT built-in
Bluetooth kb + mouse
lacie 250gb ext FW 800
23" cinema display
portable adapter
extra battery
podium pad
isight
airport extreme

Wow, that's pimped out.

 

[Hemingray]

You both should try a heathy alternative of chicken, fish, fruits, and vegetables. Preferably at a restaurant other than McDonald's or other fast food restaurants. Its the fried food and fat. Your body will thank you and you will be around longer to enjoy your Mac.

My avatar ain't me, ya know. LOL! Well heck, MickeyDee's has the McNuggets (chicken), Filet'O'Fish (fish), Parfait (fruits) and Fries (vegetables)! We've got it made!

Naw, just kidding. I don't eat there that often. You are right, the fat, calories, and carbs'll kill you at those places.

 

[Apple Hobo]

cool..!

how much, where???

I want one

vSpacken

There was a recent thread on the subject--you can do a search to find it (or Google). I think you can buy the silos for about $1M, which ain't bad for your own underground facility out in the middle of nowhere that's capable of surviving a nuke blast.