but atleast this run, the g5 is a piece of ibm's work, a little power4. however, apples incrementalism bothers me. they should have used some form of liquid cooling, and pushed this thing to ridulus speeds. if it is quicker then a 3ghz p4 xeon at 2ghz, imagine what the g5 could do at 3 ghz or beyound. or if they went numa and use 4 of the them.... osx could run on numa hardware. and by now your probably thinkin "numa? holyshit, he's talking about sgi supercomputers". well, apple is great at bringing technolgy not usually associated with the desktop to the desktop, like 64bit machines, UNIX, and many others. so why not inexpensive numa