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29. ....(assuming of course that the Apple rep I’ve talked with about the quad G5 is even half as knowledgeable as he comes off). This is the problem I am having. I use my G5 for music production, and the Dual 2.5 G5 just doesn't live up to all the hype that Apple tried to sell us when demonstrating the G5 running 1 million and 1 tracks while the Intel machine could only manage 6! They shot themselves in the foot doing that, as far as i'm concerned, and any thought of me purchasing the Quad G5 is tempered with the memory that I have only had my dual 2.5 for just over 6 months and am having to move on to a bigger machine becuase it just can't cope..and when I mean cope, I mean trying to run many plugins without the use of an accelerator card, which the Opteron systems are managing to do with no problem!! Compared to a dual dual core Opeteron system, the G5 2.5 doesn't even get out of bed!! So i'll wait and see what the results are in terms of performance before I spend my cash.. If it doesn't live up to the hype, was there any hype for the release of this machine!?!, then a dual dual core opteron system it is!! Beya