Looking for Apple Hardaware advice

[ragingemu]

I'm looking for some advice, which means that violetshade, yehoshua, mattsachs, and anyone else who's marginally informed about Apple hardware, I'm looking at you. Yes, I know that I likely know just as much if not more about Apple hardware than y'all, but a second opinion doesn't have to notably better educated, it just has to come from a different, comparable source

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[violetshade]

What sort of crunching do you plan on doing on the desktop?

If it were me, I'd sell a kidney on the black market and get one of the dual-duals. In fact, I might do that anyway.

[ragingemu]

If it were me, I'd sell a kidney on the black market and get one of the dual-duals. In fact, I might do that anyway.

Don't think I haven't been tempted. In fact, I wouldn't even need sell a kidney, just put one partly in hock, probably. Thing is, a four core PowerMac runs a bit more than a single core iMac, and Matt's employee discount also includes certain select deals as well as a certain percent off on normal purchases. One of those deals right now is for the outgoing iMacs.

I've also thought of a getting a refurbished dual 2.7 GHz PowerMac, which IIUC would mean a little more power on certain non-threaded processes, albeit notably less power overall.

What sort of crunching do you plan on doing on the desktop?Not a hell of a hell of a lot. There will doubtless be video editing every once in a while, some small amount of photo editing, video / photo / media management and consumption, and then generally web browsing, email, ssh sessions, iCal, IM, and maybe hosting a phpicalendar install (last seen running on a linux box, and not

[violetshade]

Apple's products - and computers in general - are why I need to be filthy rich.

Agreed.

Heard any good stock tips, lately?

Well, I was telling my parents "Buy Apple!" in 1997. I think that burnt out my stock market karma, though (and they didn't follow my advice, more's the pity).

Based on your described usage pattern, I'd say go iMac. They are, as you say, dead sexy, and the G5 remains a solidly impressive desktop processor despite the continued lack of 3GHzness-I suspect you'll be feeling the bite of time more from the architecture transition per se than from the march of processor power.

I know that you were planning on getting yourself hooked up with the best PPC hardware you could prior to the end of PPC product lines. What's happening there for you?The instant the October '05 Powerbooks got announced, I ordered one up. It was good timing, as my developer discount was ending on the 31st. I've been using it for the past few months and, while I might wish for brawnier IBM-made processors, it's serving me extremely well. It

[ragingemu]

So whatever became of pixel?