| Nope everything will be Intel once the new one comes out in August. |
Yep, even an Apple store clerk in behind-the-times, backwater Tasmania (the arse end of the world to many Oz mainlanders) told me that. However, he did say that the G5 will remain in production for a wee while longer, presumably to move surplus stock or something....but it's certainly not a long term thing, given Apples success with Intel based machines.
Okay, there are a few purists who don't like them, but the Intel transition has created a whole new market for Mac based computing....and sooner or later, even the G series fanboys/purists will have to concede if they want to keep up with the times, cos there won't be any G's available.
Oh, and lolapoa, I have a neighbour who does freelance magazine/TV work on his custom built PC - P4 3.6, 4 gigs RAM, Gigabyte mobo, XP Pro - and he claims to never having had a freeze-up/crash, etc while doing intensive DVD/graphics work on it...something he says is not the case with his standard G4 Mac, which he says has frozen on occasion doing the exact same thing.
This isn't to say Mac isn't good gear, but that in the hands of an experienced user, his PC performs admirably, better than his Mac. So I guess it comes down to the user in the end, what is required of the machine. The bottom line then, is that both formats have their strengths and weaknesses, and if a user works with those strengths but within the limitations of their machine, they are going to get the best from it, be it a Mac or a PC, whatever.
