[funkboy]

How fast/big/powerful/low-priced will the new Power Mac G5s have to be in order to satisfy you?

Me:
$1700, dual 1.8 GHz G5, and I don't care about the specs at that price. If there's a new Apple DVI monitor, sign me up!

[Lateralus]

A Power Mac at $999. A 1.5GHz 7447 G4 or 1.4GHz-ish G5 would be fast enough. Maybe 2 PCI slots, AGP, 2 DIMM slots for up to 2GBs of DDR, one optical drive bay, two HDD bays...

They'd sell like hot cakes and bring in a lot of converts I would imagine.

That's really all I care about. A low end, expandable, headless Mac.

[nemanirc]

I want eight PCI slots, quad display capability, quad processors, a multifunction remote control, TiVO-ready, caller ID, built-in scanner/fax/printer, and an telekinetic human interface (mice and keyboards are for chumps!). All this for around 8 bucks sounds good.

Actually, I have an aging G3 B&W tower that has two 80 GB drives, 500 MHz G4 processor, and the ATI 7000 32 MB graphics card. I could live with a dual 1.8 GHz at around $1600. Oh, and make the darned case smaller. That thing towers over my old G3 (forgive the pun).

[action]

as a professional photographer/videographer you can never have enough.

i was a recent switcher (2 years) i had a maxed out 933 quicksilver and 667 powerbook. the jump in utility from my quicksilver to my dual 2 g5 maxed out was a huge jump. i don't think the next revision will be that big of jump for me. so all this speculation doesn't affect me as much as waiting for my original g5 to arrive.

i will upgrade when the powermacs give me a noticable jump in performance or if my work flow dictates i need a faster computer to make it financially worth while.

for the average computer user i think this is all moot. i bought a 1 ghz emac as an emergency backup computer and it can do almost everything the g5 does except video and heavy filters in photoshop or batch processing. if i wasn't a professional user then even the current offerings would be adequate. i bought a g4 12 inch 800ghz ibook maxed out and it's a little sluggish. so i think 1ghz is the absolute floor.

all my friends who use my computers loves them and a few have recently switched but the company itself/jobs does things or doesn't do things that drive me insane. for a power machine the stock graphics card is pathetic. the amount of stock ram is pathetic. jobs is a business man and runs his company as such. there is nothing in the companies conduct, business wise that makes me think they are any different then ms. at least their products are superior.

as always,

chung lee

[Link]

A $3000 dual 3ghz powermac with Radeon X800XT, 1gb DDR, etc

A $1599 dual 2.2ghz powermac just to piss the dual 2ghz owners off

A $1999 dual 2.5ghz powermac just to piss the dual 1.8ghz owners off

A $999 imac g5, a $599 headless mac

A wireless ipod.

30", 25", 20", 17" widescreen displays from $499 to $2599

Apple constantly updating their crap instead of doing it once every 9 months (I wish).

Basically all of these are rediculous hopes and apple probably won't even provide G5s of that speed/price for another year.

[Cadaver]

Apple could release a 3GHz dual G5 for $999 and it still wouldn't piss off this dual 2.0 owner.
I've enjoyed killer OS X performance for the last 8 months, and it won't suddenly get any slower when the new ones arrive.

What would make me happy is a $1299 1920x1200 23" cinema display...

[funkboy]

Originally posted by Link:
Apple constantly updating their crap instead of doing it once every 9 months (I wish).

No kidding. Why can't Apple give smaller speed bumps along the way? Would the R&D cost be that prohibitive?

Waiting almost an entire year to update the G5s - and even then not hitting the goal you wanted, and *not* introducing any significant new features inside the towers (nothing like the PowerBooks, which come with the Bluetooth and AirPort Extreme cards bundled) - is just disappointing. It just plain is.

If Apple could have released these a month or two ago, I think the sales would have been better... but who knows.

[nemanirc]

Now, how about an AFFORDABLE tower? $2000 before a monitor is ridiculous. I just want a box I can expand and upgrade. I don't do graphic design, or desktop publishing, or music editing. I just need Virtual PC to run quickly and my web site to work. I would like an inexpensive G5 for around $1200-$1500. I don't want an iMac because I want to be able to upgrade hard drives, video cards, and processors. I have reached the end of the upgrade path for my G3 B&W (no more video cards for the PCI slot; no faster G4's than the 500 MHz one I have). So, how about it, Apple?

[Spliff]

Originally posted by funkboy:
How fast/big/powerful/low-priced will the new Power Mac G5s have to be in order to satisfy you?

Apple needs to do only one thing to please me. Put a f**king decent video card in their G5s. These are pro machines, after all, and for the prices they're charging, all the G5 towers should ship with the ATI 9800 chipset. Instead, they have the gutless NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra.

I doubt I'll ever buy a tower from Apple. I just don't see them as a good enough value. I'm looking to buy a 12" Powerbook. And for gaming, it'll either be a console or a cheap PC with a kickass video card.

[awcopus]

A dual G5 that can contain 4 HDs internally for a total of 1 terabyte of internal storage. Like I've been using in my MDD 1.4 duallie for the last year. As a video editor, this would simply make it possibe for me to affordably enter the G5 world.

In lieu of this capability, I will probably suck it up and make a big capital purchase in the form of an XServe RAID when I upgrade to a G5 at some point.