Should I get a new G5 Mac?

[Q Classic]

i say upgrade.

for as much as you'd pay for a g5, you could upgrade your current pc to 0wnz0r anybody else's.

what's more, you could simply swap out the mobo: ~100, add a new chip ~300, and add new memory ~300, and you'll have a decent computer.

g5s are nice, though. but are you doing video editing? sound editing? no? then there's no *critical* need for you to move up to it.

[Harry Seldon]

As my college instructor was always so fond of saying when we got to the Apple section of our books, "Apple... who cares!" To be fair though, he also would occassionally state, "Macs... they make great doorstops."

[Inverse Icarus]

upgrade the PC. assuming you have $800 to spend, you can buy a new mobo, processor, a video card and some ram, EASILY. go to computer shows and the price drops signifigantly, especially kif you have a chinese guy who speaks chinese buy it for you. they wave tax if you pay in cash, and they'll cut the price for their own kind.

[chequita guevara]

It depends on what you want to do with your machine.

[Inverse Icarus]

if you want something to bash your head against, buy the mac.

[Jack_www]

I would say etheir buy a new PC or upgrade. A mac is not very good with games and PC is much faster then macs. I used to like macs a lot untill I started to use PC more and how much more games they have on a PC compared to a MAC. I am glad I have a PC instead of a MAC.

[child of Thor]

A couple of friends of mine own Mac's. One makes films, the other does a lot of DTP and Photoshop.

Both swear that its the machine for their needs. But both are a bit less enthusiastic about it as a games platform.

There are games out there but if gaming is your thing then stick to your pc and upgrade that.

Of course the PC does have very good productive software of its own these days, so IMHO i would stick to your PC.

Then again if you want to strike a blow for free trade and freedom of choice and good compition in the market place get the Mac.

[Kyle]

I'd take it in addition to my PC, but I'd probably never replace my PC for a Mac.

[Whaleboy]

Windows!

The only thing that could possibly be better is a simple, good looking interface running on top of a BSD kernel!

OTOH, the Mac is a damn fine looking piece of equipment.

Agathon: You're 31 now, shouldn't you stop relying on your parents? j/k Sponge all you want!!

[Provost Harrison]

They're all image, an 800MHz version of one of those pieces of cack (G4) costs more than my 3GHz system God knows how much that sh*theap will cost...

[OzzyKP]

Now how much of those responses were from really knowing the G5 and what software there is out there for it, and how much of that was just general anti-Mac sentiment?

[Provost Harrison]

Just a healthy dose of cynicism...they are overpriced ornaments

[monolith94]

There's a healthy dose of exaggeration there, too.

In terms of software, you can find everything you need, apart from games. If you want a good, reliable computer that will let you do your work faster and will work WITH you rather than get in your way, go with a mac. If you want to play the latest games and be able to play more types of games, go with the pc.

[OzzyKP]

expand on that monolith.

I like games, but most of my stuff is pretty old anyways. I probably haven't bought a new game in like 5 years. I don't want to loose what i've got though.

I have been frustrated with Win98, though who knows if thats just because my computer is old and corrupted and all its crashes and freezing are because of that rather than an OS problem. Would Mac OSX be any better than an updated Windows? Or would it be just as troublesome after its old and well used?

(looking for impartial opinions btw)

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by monolith94
There's a healthy dose of exaggeration there, too.

In terms of software, you can find everything you need, apart from games. If you want a good, reliable computer that will let you do your work faster and will work WITH you rather than get in your way, go with a mac. If you want to play the latest games and be able to play more types of games, go with the pc.

Yes, apart from games. But let's face it, a 4 year old PC could run modern day applications without too much of a problem...probably why a Mac can run them too And a computer that will work with you rather than against you? What kind of flannel is that? I think Jobs would be hard pushed to think of something worse than that