Looking for Apple Hardaware advice

[ragingemu]

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

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[violetshade]

Apple's products - and computers in general - are why I need to be filthy rich.

Agreed.

Heard any good stock tips, lately?

Well, I was telling my parents "Buy Apple!" in 1997. I think that burnt out my stock market karma, though (and they didn't follow my advice, more's the pity).

Based on your described usage pattern, I'd say go iMac. They are, as you say, dead sexy, and the G5 remains a solidly impressive desktop processor despite the continued lack of 3GHzness-I suspect you'll be feeling the bite of time more from the architecture transition per se than from the march of processor power.

I know that you were planning on getting yourself hooked up with the best PPC hardware you could prior to the end of PPC product lines. What's happening there for you?

The instant the October '05 Powerbooks got announced, I ordered one up. It was good timing, as my developer discount was ending on the 31st. I've been using it for the past few months and, while I might wish for brawnier IBM-made processors, it's serving me extremely well. It sucks a lot of power at full usage (barely over an hour battery life), but under light usage will last up to five-odd hours-the things they did with power management are simply amazing. Overall I'm feeling pretty good about my decision, and hopefully by the time I'm ready to upgrade in 4-odd years we'll have seen the back of vanilla x86 for good (in favour of x86-64 and a better, if still unacceptably low, register count).

Currently fighting the temptation to pick up some of the outgoing hardware. So sexy…

[ragingemu]

So whatever became of pixel?

[violetshade]

I'm toying with the idea of using him for tasks where portability is of primary concern, but at the moment he's living at the foot of my bed crunching SETI@home workunits and serving up the FreeCiv game that's been going since… October? November?