<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Look Jeff,<DIV>Apple is not going to offer SLOWER Macs via Intel processors. They will offer FASTER Macs always. It starts with a killer PowerBook based on Intel Dual Core Yohah processors running @ 2.5 GHz by January 2006 at the latest.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><<A href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21091">http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21091</A>></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I too will not be giving up my NEW (not a demo not refurbished) dual 2.5 G5 I got for $1999 at Fry's last Saturday. ; ^ ) And I already had a dual 2 G5 I bought a year ago for the same price from Apple refurbished.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But it's ain't wicked fast at ALL. I am currently watching it creep along at what will be several hours crunching a broadcast digital video recording in SD with my EyeTV 500 into a DivX avi file under Panther 10.3.9/QT 6.5.2 'cause the DivX plug in for Tiger/QT 7 isn't ready yet.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is no way I am going to want to keep this DOG any longer than I have to so I can encode and transcode video way faster than it takes today.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I agree that PPCs are fast and that would be true for me all the time were it not for the fact that I am heavily into video transcoding and compressing as well as audio recording. For multimedia applications like these, there is no such thing as fast. It's still a major waiting game over here Jeff.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <DIV>k</DIV> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 11, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Jeffrey Stormshak wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Futura; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I can truly state that I'm not selling my PPC G5 (DP 2.0). Its fully loaded and when Apple releases its new PowerMac Models with that slow Intel based chip (count themselves lucky if its even 64Bit), us *relics* can enjoy that our *aged* systems are still better, faster than any new ones. With that being said, my cost to sell...<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">*Priceless*</SPAN></B>.. </SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just like the shirt says that I have on... "G5: SPEED NEVER GOES OUT OF STYLE" ;-)</DIV></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>