I understand that macs have there place in the media industry, but tbh only the real average joe would buy one at that price over a PC. Yeah, I know the PPC processors can perform CERTAIN tasks better and faster than there equivlient AMD/P4's... but looking at it wholly a PC is far better.. and far more can be had for the price.. not much for there designs either.. White gets grubby rather easily
For the price that you quoted, you could have this;
AMD Athlon FX53 - £587.44
IIyama Vision Master Pro 454 19" CRT - £245.93
OCZ 1GB (2x512MB) PC4000 Dual Channel Gold Series - £260.81
Abit ATI Radeon X800 XT PE 256MB DDR3 VIVO TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - £375.94
Asus DRW-0804P 8x DVD±R/±RW ReWriter - £46.94
Asus A8V Deluxe - £85.21
CoolerMaster Centurion - £35.21
Antec TruePower 430W PSU - £63.80
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX - £73.97
Creative Inspire 5.1 P580 Speakers - £39.36
Comes in at ; £1533
Granted that doesn't contain office, etc.. but its a heck of a system and beats a G5 down hands down at everything bar the media side of things.. Yet.. how much faster
is the G5 at these things? I'm not sure, but I'd guess its pretty nominal... so again, a PC seems a better bargain. Can't really say Graphics is an issue with the G5.. as they arent based at games. But the FX5200 is a low end graphics card these days .. and it only contains PC3200 memory, my specs got most defiently HIGHER quality memory.. as well as it being a heck of a lot faster if used properley.
With the above spec, I'd probably change the FX-53 to a AMD64 3400.. which would save me around 350 squids to get some more equip
