Your comments and suggestions will be most welcome.I am going to purchase a G5. I am debating, with myself, about getting the 1.6 GHz PowerPC or the 1.8GHz PowerPC. Looking over the specs the differences aside from the speed, which is not an important consideration to me, are the HD capacity, also not important, and the memory type.
One uses DDR333 128 bit SDRAM, the other DDR400 128 bit SDRAM.
I have no idea if the difference in the type of memory is significant. Is the difference worth $400? I realize one has only 256MB and the other 512MB, but you can buy a lot of memory for $400, if there is no real difference in the two types of memory.
2 differences are on the front side bus and the PCI expansion slots.
The low end G5 has a 800Mhz FSB, while the 1.8Ghz has a 900Mhz, so performance wise would favour the 1.8 a bit. But it is the new PCI-X bus (with bus speeds of 133Mhz and 100Mhz) that offers the G5 greater bus bandwidth for future expansion. For one thing, PCI 33Mhz is pretty much maxed out at around 133Mb/s, which is why the top end UltraATA IDE controller is maxed out to 133. With the new SATA drives and future SATA controllers, faster data transfer performance can only be obtained with G5s equipped with PCI-X slots.
It is sort of like a Yikes G4 vs Sawtooth G4 debate. Which one to buy? The answer is clear..
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