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Advantages: Everything! Silent, Super Fast, Stunning Design...
Disadvantages: Might be hard to steal - they are rather heavy!

...The new PowerPC G5 from Apple is by far the most superior and valuable tool for anyone within the new media industries. We have two design studios, comprising 8-12 of these beautiful machines, primarily set up as 'top of the range', 'high powered', video editing suites, with twin 30" Apple cinema displays (these are also stunning, and a must have for anyone who takes video editing seriously). I have had experience with video editing on a middle of ...
...beauty of the higher powered Apple Macs is their ability to process quickly, high amounts or volumes of audio or video. And the beauty of that; the Mac is the new hub for any recording studio… it can replace, and make obsolete, most of the kit normally found in modern recording studios! A broadcast quality recording can now be done on one of Apple’s PowerBooks (with suitable recording system i.e. Pro Tools) on location – it is truly portable and ... Read review

Advantages: Stylish and really great
Disadvantages: hardly any

Its been an interesting 9months for me, a more than 10 year PC user now in the MAC Zone! Yes, I purchased a MAC!! Over the past year other PC user friends of mine have been telling me that, never mind the G5's fast performance, the OS or what's called OSX is the jewel that this article failed to mention! My official feeling is now don't even hesitate to buy the G5, but for me its not because of the blistering performance it's because of the OS that's ...
...amazing! I'm running all my windows versions from my past machines all at the same time. With the OSX Unix solidness, and many features you can hardly imagine, XP on my old Dell looks dated by at least 12 years! I'm backing up my XP Compaq Presario 2160 to the G5 and the backup will even boot on the G5. Anyway, keep your XP laptop, and your Win95/Dos for the old reliable PC serial communication, but let your new OSX machine do all the internet and ... Read review

Advantages: All in one - slim design - apple osx and ilife etc
Disadvantages: expandability

...You get all the great apple software, tiger, ilife etc. All the ports are easily acessable. If you get the bluetooth option and keyboard and mouse you have hardly any cables at all. (please not the bluetooth mouse does go through batteries though!). This is just so easy to setup and use. This is how computing should be. I was up and running and on line in about 15mins from getting it out of the box. The setup for Tiger is so easy and you can transfer ...
...I got mine from the apple store (www.apple.com/uk/store) and excellent service and would throughly recommend. Build time longer if you want to customise your iMac. The only downside like all previous iMacs is expandiblity although you can easily upgrade the harddrive and the Superdrive if you want to. A wonderful Mac. Don't be put off with Apple changing to Intel processors - Apple is fantastic at legacy/backward support. Unlike Wintel machines ... Read review

Advantages: all in one package is powerfull enough to work and play with
Disadvantages: mighty mouse takes some getting used to after a lifetime of one button operation

Having worked on apples for over 12 years now I have to say I'm biased. However, due to my experience of the early edition G5 imac I have taken the plunge and bought one for home. Even my work colleagues love the design and ellegance of the mac, it really does set it apart from anything else out there! The new mighty mouse takes a little getting used to though. The side button is very sensitive and as most of us mac users have only had to use the ...
...a little heavy handed!!! The operating system (OS 10.4 - Tiger) is extremely user friendly and I'm sure anyone contemplating moving from PC to mac would only need to be shown around the system preferences to realise that. On a professional basis and bearing in mind the mac is predominantly based in the design and print industry it simply blows the competition away. From a homeuser point of view both the wife and the kids have picked it up easily ... Read review

Advantages: Sleek, powerful, easy to use
Disadvantages: Expensive, May be replaced soon

...is to do with processors. Apple have recently made the switch to using Intel instead of the IBM PowerPCs, and some new models like the laptop MacBook and the Mac Mini have already been released with the new chips. There is probably a new PowerMac on the way, although I have no idea how far away it is. Let me just explain what the difference will mean. For a start, the new PowerMac will be a general improvement upon the old one, the processors will ...
...software currently being developed for Apple (and everything developed recently) will run on both types of machine, but if you already use a Mac and you have some older software you don't want to lose, you probably don't want to change processor. Also, all software developed in the future will still run on old Macs, so don't worry that if you buy one now it will become out of date very soon. If you want to wait, then there will probably be a new ... Read review