Hi Your reply was very much appreciated. It was the final push to order my 800Mhz PowerBook replacement. I just hope Apple don't release a G5 in the next couple of months. :o( But reading all the info that's about and looking at the heat output of the G5's at present I cannot see this happening any time quickly. In the mean time I will have a bright and shinny fast PowerBook. Regards. Robin > > I picked up one of the machines in question last week. It replaced a > 800mhz DVI with 768mb ram. I have better things to do than run a > benchmark so I can't speak to the numbers. With 1.5gb ram, the new > machine is considerably faster - twice as fast? doubt it, but there is > "oomph" when I am working simultaneously in CAD, Illustrator, and some > ram intensive proprietary apps - that is a change from the 800. The > hard drive is nice and quiet, the screen is as