Questions Before Buying A New G5 Dual 2.7 Options

[bluetone78]

Hello all,
My G4 iMac just isn't cutting it anymore, so I need an upgrade. I was think about getting the G5 dual 2.7, but I had a bunch of questions first:

1. What's this I hear about an Intel Mac? When are they coming out? Are they going to be better than the dual G5's that are available now? Should I wait to buy untilt hey come out?

2. Obviously I'm gong to need more RAM - I've read good things about Corsair (in this forum, elsewhere). I also read talk of buying in "bundles"? what does that mean? How do I buy ram in bundles?

3. I'd like to have a seperate interal drive to put my samples, audio files, etc. Is there a good reason (performance wise) to get the dual 400GB drives factory installed from apple? If not, can anyone recommend a decent brand for this application?

4. Apple LCD displays vs other Brands?


Thanks so much,
Charles

[vsmith1]

I wasn't suggesting to use RAID0, except that hardware RAID is much much better than software RAID.

RAID has a number of levels that use different techniques to either improve performance or more usually resilience. It is more often used on servers where a large number of users are sharing a service delivered by the server. In Level 0, the data is striped across two hard disks; Level 1 the data is written to disks. Yes in RAID1 you buy two 160GB drives and only effectively have 160GB of space, but if one drive fails then the data is preserved on the other. If you want more then search on wikipedia.

Vince