Scott Reams wrote:

What I'm saying is... the performance gap between G5 and G4 is pretty
substantial. How long will it be before the G5 CPU appears in the more
consumer-oriented eMacs and iMacs? The performance gap between eMac/iMac and
Power MAC will be much larger than the performance gap between a $3000 PC
and a sub-$1000 PC. At least for a while.

Absolutely. But remember, this product was only just announced and it
won't even be available til August. We have to know there's a team of
uber-geeks working round the clock on a G5 iMac shaped like a stalk of
wheat and a blazing new pocket-sized powerbook made of solid plutonium
with a 26" inflatable video screen as we speak. I bet there'll be a G5
iBook that's visually indistinguishable from an eyeshadow compact
that'll sell for $199. Maybe they won't be out til October. Who
knows.

ulysses


"Justin Ulysses Morse" wrote in message
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Scott Reams wrote:

This is generally because PC users know they don't have to spend
anywhere
near workstation prices to get near-workstation performance. $1000 will
get
you something that is in high-end Athlon/P4/G5 territory. Apple users
expect
to pay a premium... and so they will. Apple has no direct competition to
keep prices down, and devoted Apple users are unlikely to switch.

You're comparing prices on Apples that aren't even out yet to prices on
P4 machines that are less than state of the art. Prices on both
platforms plummet in the first couple of months they're available.
Yes, the current flagship Apple is usually upwards of $3000 but if you
price out THE fastest P4 you can get, you'll find yourself in the same
ballpark. 3.2GHz P4 processors alone are over $700 right now.
Regardless of how a 2GHz G5 compares to a 3.2GHz P4, they're both at a
premium because they're new. Put two of those $700 P4 processors into
a case as badass as the G5, fill it up with a superdrive, OS, and all
the other finesse and you'll find yourself in the general neighborhood
of thirty benjamins. Likewise, when the dual 3GHz G5 is released, the
price of the dual-2G will drop.

ulysses