Looking for Apple Hardaware advice
I'm looking for some advice, which means that violetshade, yehoshua, mattsachs, and anyone else who's marginally informed about Apple hardware, I'm looking at you. Yes, I know that I likely know just as much if not more about Apple hardware than y'all, but a second opinion doesn't have to notably better educated, it just has to come from a different, comparable source.
I've been meaning to sell and replace my powerbook for some time now, but various issues have gotten in the way of me actually doing that since this summer.
Since I'm a PPC fanboy, and since it's about time, I'm going to be getting some new Apple hardware *very soon now*.
I'm planning on getting a little 'book - likely a 12" PowerBook, perhaps a 12" iBook instead - but my thought is that I want a more powerful desktop (and better [semi]-permanently-stationed screen real estate, though that could simply be accomplished with an external monitor for a notebook) workstation to supplement a traveling laptop.
Thanks to a generously offered extension by mattsachs of his "Friends & Family" Apple employee discount, my soon to be sold powerbook, and some other resources, I have some money I can spend well. Now I just have to decide where and how to spend it.
Specifically, I'm thinking that I might get a 20" iMac G5, but reports on the performance of Core Duo machines (video issues aside) make me concerned that the processing power of a single 2.1 GHz G5 may soon be somewhat obsoleted in the world of Apple hardware (the laptop doesn't need a lot of oomph, it just needs to be highly portable). Countering this (at a somewhat notably higher price) would be a more powerful and expandable dual processor G5 powermac. What to buy, what to buy?
Advice, suggestions, sweet whispered nothings?
If at all possible (and I think it might be pressing Apple shipping more than even they could do for a pre-configured order), I'd like to have a smaller 'book ready to go with me when I head out to Portland and then Santa Cruz on next Saturday, the 18th, but a workstation could wait a little longer in the obtaining and set up.
So, yeah... that's all. Awaiting your input.
I've been meaning to sell and replace my powerbook for some time now, but various issues have gotten in the way of me actually doing that since this summer.
Since I'm a PPC fanboy, and since it's about time, I'm going to be getting some new Apple hardware *very soon now*.
I'm planning on getting a little 'book - likely a 12" PowerBook, perhaps a 12" iBook instead - but my thought is that I want a more powerful desktop (and better [semi]-permanently-stationed screen real estate, though that could simply be accomplished with an external monitor for a notebook) workstation to supplement a traveling laptop.
Thanks to a generously offered extension by mattsachs of his "Friends & Family" Apple employee discount, my soon to be sold powerbook, and some other resources, I have some money I can spend well. Now I just have to decide where and how to spend it.
Specifically, I'm thinking that I might get a 20" iMac G5, but reports on the performance of Core Duo machines (video issues aside) make me concerned that the processing power of a single 2.1 GHz G5 may soon be somewhat obsoleted in the world of Apple hardware (the laptop doesn't need a lot of oomph, it just needs to be highly portable). Countering this (at a somewhat notably higher price) would be a more powerful and expandable dual processor G5 powermac. What to buy, what to buy?
Advice, suggestions, sweet whispered nothings?
If at all possible (and I think it might be pressing Apple shipping more than even they could do for a pre-configured order), I'd like to have a smaller 'book ready to go with me when I head out to Portland and then Santa Cruz on next Saturday, the 18th, but a workstation could wait a little longer in the obtaining and set up.
So, yeah... that's all. Awaiting your input.