On 13 Mar 2005, at 18:46, bee wrote: > I work in Audio and Video. The G5 > using plug-ins, encoding or rendering is twice as fast (seems > like) as our dual G4. > Yes, and these are floating point operations, exactly what the G5.excels at. If you work with floating point operations then the G5 is a no-brainer. Chris' point was that for those who don't do work that needs lots of heavy floating point maths, the speed increase of upgrading to G5 is negligible. -- Tarik