Charles: The main trade off between the new iMacs and the new Power Macs is expandability. You can add an airport card and one DIMM module to the iMac (I've done both to my 15-inch iMac/G4 700mhz/512/40GB/CDRW/DVD). That's it (at least for non-hardware hackers).
You can internally add up to three hard drives, two optical drives, and tons of RAM to the Power Macs. Of course both have the same ports (USB/Firewire), but I think the the Power Mac has more. The other factor is noise. See Macintouch.com for a long thread about this, but the Powermac, due to it's expandability, comes with three internal fans and can be quite lound (hairdryer loud, according to some on MacIntouch). I went to the Apple store in Durham, NC earlier this month and found the 1 Ghz model to be considerably louder than my iMac, but tolerable. And of course the PowerMacs have dual CPUs. Note Chris's musings here about OS X's future development and Apple's dual CPU strategy as a counter to the 'megahertz myth'. Charles deftly typed-- > > Thanks for the info, others have said similar things and it's >beginning to look like I'm going to have to upgrade my machine/OS in the >near future to do the things I want to do. > That said, another question arises. Would I do better to upgrade to >a new iMac, or go to one of the regular G4/whatever machines? Does iMac >have limitations compared to the other Macs? I know that in the past >there was a software package JUST for them - is this still the case? - >Charles Berndt von Wahlde Academic International Press PO Box 1111 * Gulf Breeze FL 32562-1111 850 934 0953 (fax) / [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail) / www.ai-press.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "it's a perfect day for making out to wake up with a smile without a doubt to burst grin giggle bliss skip jump sing and shout let's get happy! it's a perfect day for doing the unstuck" --the cure ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
