G5 With Ibm Chips Options

[petra]

Hi,

I'm getting ready to buy a new computer for my future studio. After emailing, posting messages in forums, long considerations etc. it looks like I will go in the direction of a PC.

Why? I talked to an employee of Apple, and he told me that if I buy a G4 today, I should be ready to sell it when new processors come out at the end of 2003.

I wanted to ask Mac users, what do you think about this new, what I think they call "G5" and what is it going to mean for you? Will your current software and recording hardware work with the G5?

Also, how is Cubase SX with OSX?

Please elnighten me, I might still change my mind and go Mac if it makes sense.

Petra

[music sucks]

petra my man
I am in the same shoe you are in, though I am sure that I am going to get a Mac. The question is when. This is the way I am looking at things:
An Apple rep told me that they first set the dual G4 prices back in october (though he may have said august). Just recently Apple announced faster G4's at much cheaper prices! I may wait save all my pennies to be the first one to buy one when they drop them again which will probably happen in july or august, but I may have to buy one now! hehe.
I was worried about the G4's becoming absolete in wake of G5's surfacing. But they probably wont. Lets say that you wait all year until the G5's come out. Are you going to pay $3,000 dollars for one?? you would have to wait at LEAST half a year for the prices of them to drop. In the mean time G4's will be very, very fairly priced.
When G4's were first released, do you remember how long they continued to make G3's? And G3's still are not obsolete as far as speed and power recommandations go for audio apps, they are just lower end. G4's will still rock the house when G5's come out. So lets say you get a G4 now; by the time you are ready for your next upgrade in a few years G5's will be very cheap by than and you won't mind paying the extra to get one if they are going to be as fantastic as expected. But if you wait that long or settle for a PC, think of all the time you will have wasted. I dont care what anyone says, Macs are a much more invisable tool than PC's are for audio. And Apple's are sooo solidly stable that you will forget that you are using a machine. All things considered my G3 is very reliable when I think of how much I put it through. Go with the Mac. Get a G4 as they get cheaper. You dont want to spend twice the amount on a G5 when they first come out.
You want a Mac. OSX has largely considered Audio into how it works. It has never been a better time to invest in a Mac for audio.