Yo all,
I am a newly converted Mac user, well just bought a 12" G3 700 mhz ibook, nothing too flash but i love it for what it does, its battery life and portability and of course i much prefer the Panther platform to XP.
But i do need something with more power and the new imac G5 20" looks very attractive and i do want to get it. But here in the Uk the delivery time is back upto 2-3 weeks and reading some of your guys frustration i am getting concerned it will be more like a month or more and i am not really willing to wait that long for my computer.
I do have some extra funds so getting a new Powermac 1.8 ghz (single) and a new 20" display (or old 23" display) would be possible. i could even stretch to a dual 1.8 ghz and settle for an old 20" screen. Where do you guys think i should go? Are the new screens much better than the old ones? And for not that intense applications will i notice that much increase in power to a dual 1.8 ghz?
OR should i wait and get the 20" imac G5?
choices, choices! For the moment i won't be using that many hungry app's - iphoto/word/excel/browsing a bit of film editing/garageband, but in the future i can see myself using logic 7/maybe idvd and some kind of graphics program.
Would appreciate your guys views