Guy: I know what you're saying, that does s88k, however if you're running a major production and you just bought two G5's you should get the insurance that goes with it - that's what I would do. A lot of shops throw it in for nothing (that's the deal I got with the machine I bought this time) or do it cheaper than the quoted price which is honestly a bit much. It increases your resale value a lot too if you plan to ditch them even two years later, much better to say "one year warrante left" than nothing at all - big difference in sale price. I suppose my policy is to automatically buy the warrantee I don't buy a machine without it, the one time I did I was sorry. But no arguments in actual fact - regarding what you said - in your shoes, yes, I would be peed off.
dg: apple were hopeless with there original G5 timetable but it was mostly due to ibm not being on schedule with the chips or so I heard, it's just part of a long story that lead to apple going with intel after finally having enough of IBM not giving them any respect. My G5 runs at Maximum nearly all day and I just have it sitting in the corner, isn't noisy at all, it's a 2.0 not even a liquid cooled machine fans never go more than about 30% usually hang around minimum (10% or so?) and that's only when it's a hot day and I didn't have any air con in the room. Usually room temp is 24 degrees C. I used PC's for many years and sunk so much money into em eventually I just said "never again". Although it's true, macs are expensive, if you look at the design of the hardware alone in a G5, at the time they came out, PC's couldn't compete.
End of the day, it's not important as you say you have to get the right machine for you - i did too [H] Apple here in Australia are very good to my experience except on price [[:|]] that's why I buy from resellers never direct and I always get good service from them. [:P] Last time I bought a demo model with the screen that was going out (but to me looks better - the plastic 23 inch cinema) all up for $1600 off retail plus I got the applecare thrown in cheap but quality ram and an extra drive for quite cheap (way cheaper than apples web site). *not a scratch on it or the screen - not even a dead pixel*
Miklos.
dg: apple were hopeless with there original G5 timetable but it was mostly due to ibm not being on schedule with the chips or so I heard, it's just part of a long story that lead to apple going with intel after finally having enough of IBM not giving them any respect. My G5 runs at Maximum nearly all day and I just have it sitting in the corner, isn't noisy at all, it's a 2.0 not even a liquid cooled machine fans never go more than about 30% usually hang around minimum (10% or so?) and that's only when it's a hot day and I didn't have any air con in the room. Usually room temp is 24 degrees C. I used PC's for many years and sunk so much money into em eventually I just said "never again". Although it's true, macs are expensive, if you look at the design of the hardware alone in a G5, at the time they came out, PC's couldn't compete.
End of the day, it's not important as you say you have to get the right machine for you - i did too [H] Apple here in Australia are very good to my experience except on price [[:|]] that's why I buy from resellers never direct and I always get good service from them. [:P] Last time I bought a demo model with the screen that was going out (but to me looks better - the plastic 23 inch cinema) all up for $1600 off retail plus I got the applecare thrown in cheap but quality ram and an extra drive for quite cheap (way cheaper than apples web site). *not a scratch on it or the screen - not even a dead pixel*
Miklos.