Welp, I've got $2500 sitting in the bank, which will be spent on a G5. I've already got a monitor (21" Trinitron, LCDs don't "do it" for me), so the $2.5k will be spent purely on the PowerMac G5.
Gaaaah, how do I outfit the thing?
I've got a Radeon 9800 Pro 128 retail sitting in my current G4 (MDD 2x867) that I could easily move over, so I would be ok on the video card front.
Right now, I'm leaning toward the dual 1.8. The less I spend on the GHz, the more RAM I can throw at it. (CPU upgrades in the future are a foregone conclusion, and 200 more MHz will be pretty meaningless in 2 years, but makes for a huge $$$ difference in the here and now).
I haved one nagging thought though, will a significant revision come out in Early 2005? (PCIe.....). And when it does, will upgrades for my AGP mac be available (or will Apple drop support for AGP IMMEDIATELY like it has with other technologies)???
I am confident that ATI will support the AGP upgrade market, however (X800....)
The biggest fear is that an AGP PMG5 will become like a Yikes! G4 (sorry, no Quartz Extreme....)
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