On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Richard Gilmore wrote: > ... known issue with Tiger that doesn’t occur on all machines but > it results in the machine slowing down and you getting the spinning > beachball a lot. This isn't relevant to your Mac, but it may be what you heard about. Apple has recently admitted to a problem with 1.8 GHz models of Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) hanging during intensive graphics operations. There is supposed to be a fix in the works, but a release date has not been announced. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html? artnum=302212 You might want to skim through the G5 reader reports: http:// www.macintouch.com/g5reader.html Phil