New Apple G5: some thoughts. graphics dual 2ghz G5 faster than a single P4 3ghz. (not a very fair test) in Quake 3 !!! (tee hee. it's a bit of an outdated test - i mean great if you like playing a 4 year old game all the time, but a mac that probably costs twice as much as a PC). expansion am i reading this right? you can only have 2 hard drives in there? 500gb, so that's 2 x 250gb hard drives, you could easily buy 4 or more 250gb hard drives for a PC and easily have 1Terabyte of HD space, (probably for less than the mac). performance this is quite impressive though, even the single 1.6ghz G5 is faster than the P4 in specific things. (what you do have to note is they're showing you things where the Mac wins, and they aren't going to show you were it doesn't win...)

unfortunately they still want too much money [G5 1.6 $1999 �1549 / G5 1.8 $2399 �1849 / Dual G5 2.0ghz $2999 �2299] and at the moment the store is still selling a Dual G4 1.25ghz machine for $3274!! (more than a dual G5 2.0ghz machine!) - If you watch the keynote, Steve says about how they're the only one's in the industry who do handles on the computers, well quite a lot of pcs are significantly smaller [dell from �409*] than the mac, so you don't need handles, because you can just carry it with one hand... *you can probably fit 4 of these in the space the new G5 would take up... note how they don't compare their G5 to the dual or quad AMD Opteron 64bit systems that are already out? (perhaps servers aren't personal computers though... but then there is the Sun Ultrasparc I - 64 bit. Introduced: 1995 - they don't mention that when they proclaim on www.apple.com that their G5 is the first ever 64bit Desktop Personal Computer...)