New Power Mac G4 Line, Improvements worth the money for audio? Options

[salparadise99]

Are the improvements worth the money for audio?

Specifically:

It seems that there are very good graphics improvements (from what were already exceptional), but budgetwise I don't need better graphics, but rather optimal audio functionality.

Also, a couple of questions...

1) The Xserve technology that I think all of the new G4's come with seems to be a server based advantage. I am somewhat of a novice. ...Was Apple trying to design a superpower machine for creative people (like me who wants to dedicate my machine to recording music) and therefore assumed that when you are recording that your machine is functioning as a server as opposed to a home computer?

2) Is the Mac® OS X version 10.2 “Jaguar” designed for tasks such as audio recording? Have there been some good reviews on this yet?

[cleft]

I can attest to the loud fan noise. It's not "on" constantly, but when it turns on, it's more than noticeable... I had heard that it was loud, and was still suprised when it first spun on. I joked that it was like a small vacuum cleaner... a bit of an exaggeration, of course.

These are quick machines, but like you'll see in a lot of forums, Apple seems to have made a half-step forward to a potentially faster machine. There's a bottleneck in that the system cannot take full advantage of the DDR RAM. I think Apple is fully dedicated to making the ultimate "creative" machine, and that the new G4s are simply a teaser of what's "hopefully" to come.