Rightly or wrongly I would happily recommend and indeed buy (if I didn't have a dual 2.5 already) a current G5 Powermac. I couldn't give a toss for what apple or sites may say it will paste any current Intel processor and will run OS X better than any other machine on the planet including developer x86 apple machines.
Where I do have a problem and I think many other do as well is buying a current Apple laptop. Quite frankly I could use one, I need to work so I will have to buy but us mobile users are going to get royally screwed. Not only do we pay a premium already for a slower product but the notebook line will surely be the first to get revamped and at what price to our machines? A Pentium M will leave a G4 for dust in a laptop, our machines will have a reduced resale value and will be really out of date, hell they won't play hi res H264 content properly now and Motion is a joke. I'm just starting out in business, money doesn't grow on trees and I do a damn site more than just use word, the least apple could do is either reduce the prices now or update them for one final push sooner rather than later.
I don't mind the switch to Intel, although I'd rather they had picked AMD, it is the wait that is the killer. I will be disappointed if when the new machines do appear they still carry apple's huge premium for what hardware wise can be head identically for less.
Where I do have a problem and I think many other do as well is buying a current Apple laptop. Quite frankly I could use one, I need to work so I will have to buy but us mobile users are going to get royally screwed. Not only do we pay a premium already for a slower product but the notebook line will surely be the first to get revamped and at what price to our machines? A Pentium M will leave a G4 for dust in a laptop, our machines will have a reduced resale value and will be really out of date, hell they won't play hi res H264 content properly now and Motion is a joke. I'm just starting out in business, money doesn't grow on trees and I do a damn site more than just use word, the least apple could do is either reduce the prices now or update them for one final push sooner rather than later.
I don't mind the switch to Intel, although I'd rather they had picked AMD, it is the wait that is the killer. I will be disappointed if when the new machines do appear they still carry apple's huge premium for what hardware wise can be head identically for less.
