My favorite personal computer...

[iamaboringperson]

the apple mac G5!!
apple.com
featureing the new IBM PowerPC 970

LUST! LOVE! mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........................................................

[Aegis]

Must admit, right now I'm more tempted to drop some moolah on a G5 than I am an A1...

[Dagon]

That`s nice, now the price of G4 will go down.
I hope that the new Amiga computers (AmigaOne and Pegasos) will have competitive prices compared to Apple.

I saw on apple store that an eMac with a 17" monitor,  800MHz PowerPC G4, 128MB SDRAM, 40GB Ultra ATA drive CD-ROM drive costs only $799.00

For me a G4 is more than enough, I just can`t wait to have one with AmigaOS 4.0

[Lando]

Aegis wrote:
Must admit, right now I'm more tempted to drop some moolah on a G5 than I am an A1...

Me too, if I hadn't just splashed out £1449 3 weeks ago on a 1Ghz G4 17" iMac.  

I hate the design of the new G5 PowerMac case - it looks like an Ikea wardrobe.  The Quicksilver G4 cases were much nicer.  I hope they bring out a new G5 version of the iMac!

[XDelusion]

They do look nice, as soon as Apple realizes that high prices killed them and Amiga before, I'll get one. In the mean time I bought all of this for under $500

Asus Dual AMD Mother Board
2 AMD 1000Mhz MP CPU's
Ge-Force 3 64 MB GFX Card
80GB Hard Drive
40X CDRW
256 MB Kingston RAM
ATX Mid Tower case
All new!
 Once you got a couple CPU's it don't matter if you got a PPC or not.

[Lando]

XDelusion wrote:
They do look nice, as soon as Apple realizes that high prices killed them and Amiga before, I'll get one. In the mean time I bought all of this for under $500

Asus Dual AMD Mother Board
2 AMD 1000Mhz MP CPU's
Ge-Force 3 64 MB GFX Card
80GB Hard Drive
40X CDRW
256 MB Kingston RAM
ATX Mid Tower case
All new!
 Once you got a couple CPU's it don't matter if you got a PPC or not.

Hardly the same spec as the new PowerMac though.  Compare the price of a dual 3Ghz Xeon PC system with Geforce FX 5200 Ultra, 4xDVD writer, optical mouse, keyboard, 160GB serial ATA drive, Digital audio with optical in/out, Operating System, 512MB DDR, Gigabit ethernet, aluminium case, and Firewire 800 and you're looking at over double the cost of the Apple, and the dual G5 is still faster.

This new PowerMac is probably the most reasonably-priced new computer Apple have ever launched.

[XDelusion]

Well that is a whole nother ball park. I was comparing my system to a single 800Mhz CPU IMac.

[iamaboringperson]

XDelusion wrote:
They do look nice, as soon as Apple realizes that high prices killed them and Amiga before, I'll get one. In the mean time I bought all of this for under $500

Asus Dual AMD Mother Board
2 AMD 1000Mhz MP CPU's
Ge-Force 3 64 MB GFX Card
80GB Hard Drive
40X CDRW
256 MB Kingston RAM
ATX Mid Tower case
All new!
 Once you got a couple CPU's it don't matter if you got a PPC or not.

yeah... you really are comparing apples to orages there...

[XDelusion]

Well I am poor what can I say. A peesea it may be, I have driver support, and can digitize video, edit video, do a little 3D modeling, or what ever I please just like in the old Amiga days only work is faster. Unfortunatly I doubt I'll be doing any of this on the new Amiga, as I have not heard plans to support any of  these classic Amiga elements in the new OS, but if I am wrong and Amiga comes back as a multi-media OS and Machine, then I'll be more than happy to save up those bucks asap and get one! Till then, my needs are VERY MUCH MET.

[MAD]

Hoya!

You are just a bunch of heretics!!!!!!! :evil:
"I love the new Apple G5"... Well, if you do so, you have nothing to do on www.AMIGA.org!!!

Go play on you Pentium!

M A D

[greenboy]

Woah! - nobody owes allegiance to a platform. If people see competitive options out there with apps that can do what they want of course they are going to be interested.

It takes development and finance and marketing to climb out of the deep pit that this neighborhood exists in.

[KennyR]

The PPC is my favourite modern CPU arcitecture too, but this casts some doubt on Apple's wild claims that the G5 Apple is "the fastest desktop in the world".

[uncharted]

Dagon wrote:
That`s nice, now the price of G4 will go down.
I hope that the new Amiga computers (AmigaOne and Pegasos) will have competitive prices compared to Apple.

I saw on apple store that an eMac with a 17" monitor,  800MHz PowerPC G4, 128MB SDRAM, 40GB Ultra ATA drive CD-ROM drive costs only $799.00

For me a G4 is more than enough, I just can`t wait to have one with AmigaOS 4.0

It seems the mid-range CD-R/RW/DVD model has now been bumped up from 700Mhz (like my one here) to 1Ghz, which gives great value for money (in PPC terms anyway)

MacOS X 10.3 "Panther" is looking really good from the preview, I like the user switching cube effect.  My only real gripe is the use of brushed metal ala iApps throughout the OS.  Oh well, you can't have everything.

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WOOHOO! Posting works on Safari now. :-)

[mikeymike]

I'd rather see AmigaOS running on a dual G5 system than anything else...

[KennyR]

Personally I'd like to see the PPC get the same development as x86 CPUs and so we could have 3GHz PPCs in our Amigas. but since that ain't gonna happen, G5 is good enough for me as well. Pity that isn't gonna happen either, not this end of the decade anyway...