[Oracle]

Wanted some advice on Buying a G5.

Would you rather buy?
Dual 1.8 and an extra gig of ram

Or

Dual 2.0 and stay with 512 ram

Unfortunately I can't afford the dual 2.0 and get some extra ram.

What do you think?

[Lateralus]

The 1.8 with a gob of RAM. You'd get a far nicer user experience out of it, and the 1.8 is barely slower than the 2.0.

That said, I am somewhat inclined to say get neither and hold out for the next G5 revision. Typically, the Power Macs were updated every 6 months at around the end of January/early February and then again in late summer. But now that the G5 is in the picture, it may or not not be a completely different product release ball game. Frankly, nobody knows when new G5s are coming.

So if you buy now, you run the risk of having a new revision come out in a few weeks. But if you don't buy now, you might end up waiting far longer than you think you might have to for a new G5, making it better to just snag one now and start enjoying it.

Glad I'm not in your boat.

[Mr. Blur]

If you decide to buy now, I would definitely say that yes, you'll notice the benefits of the extra ram more than the diff in processor speed. The only thing I might add would be.....if you bought the dual 2GB, how long before you could afford to buy the extra RAM?

[Oracle]

about a month. I was thinking you can always add some ram, but not processor speed. But anyways I'm probably still wait a week or two and if no new Powermac come out early Feb I'm just gonna go for it.

[OreoCookie]

How about a Dual 2 GHz and buy the RAM elsewhere.

I'd go for the Dual 2.0 GHz and try to upgrade my RAM asap (do it yourself, not Apple, really easy).

[Lateralus]

IMHO, The Dual 2.0 is not worth the $500 premium over the Dual 1.8 when it comes to performance.

[Oracle]

Well I planned on getting the ram from crucial. Just my budget right now I could only just get the G5 and add ram later.

Thanks Guys

[TiDual]

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