G4 dual 1.25 or G5 1.6?

[Joe Sporleder]

I am looking at upgrading a workstation for a small newspaper 
workgroup. I use a program called Mutli-Ad Creator, which runs under 
MacOS X and is similar in function to InDesign and QuarkXpress, and is 
a popular for advertising design among newspapers and other print 
media. I also use Photoshop quite a bit for processing digital pictures 
for ads, as well scanning advertiser logos. I also use FileMaker to 
manage circulation and as a simple ad tracker. Finally, I'm using 
Acrobat 6 Pro to distill our completed product to PDFs to send to our 
press department in a nearby city. My current workstation is a single 
G4 1.25Ghz running MacOS X 10.3.2, which someone will get as a 
hand-me-down.

Both the G4 1.25Ghz DP and the G5 1.6Ghz are within my budget. Which 
would be better, based on my uses as described above? It is my 
understanding based on reviews and specs that I've read, that for most 
things, the slowest G5 is still faster than the dual G4 1.25/1.42, 
simply because of its faster system architecture, is this a correct 
assumption? Configured with the same HD and Optical drives, the dual G4 
1.25 and the G5 1.6 are basically the same price. Are there any 
circumstances where the dual G4 would be better suited?

Joe