Bah, The G4 is extremely over hypered, its ugly as sin ( giant Cheese Grader ) and way way way to overpriced, ( i will get one eventually though ) and alot of stuff is not optimized nor working great, i.e Virtual PC and OS IX booting etc... but still g5 has some nice capabilites, but untill its price lowers i wont get, My Dual 1.25Ghz PowerMac G4 does EVERYTHIGN + LOTS more than I need it to, running Maya V, bryce V, Power , Macromedia MX 2004, Light wave VII.V and Toon boom, plus a few others, and the speed + ram + ATI Readeon 9800 Pro is the shiznaz, so I would much rather my G4 over any g5 ... basicualy cause my g4 is top of the line, Max upgrades and looks a hell of alot nicer than the Cheese Grater 5, so, my opinion. I would choose that G4 , but try and get a dual Processer... Pinky Out