[ian27]

Hey guys,

This is my current situation...

I have a PowerMac G5 2.0GHz DP, 2.5 gig of RAM and quite a lot of hard drive space. I work a lot in design, including some very CPU intensive animation work in software such as Maya and Shake.

But here is the dilemma...

I currently live in Costa Rica but will be moving to Australia in March. I am not sure if it is worth me shipping my current Mac, or buying something new when I get to Australia. A friend has already said he will buy my G5 off me for $2000.

Now to ship my computer from here to Australia will cost me about $1000 which I have, but that is about all that I have. So I can now ship the machine or buy another in Australia with the $3000 that I'll have (the $1000 I have saved for the shipping + the $2000 that I would get from my friend who will buy the G5).

I'm not sure what I can get for $3000 but I would be hoping to buy another PowerMac although I know that most of them now come with Intel processors.

I know that UB versions of the animation software etc have now been released... But does anybody know what their performance is like on the Intel? In addition, can I take out my additional internal drive that to have in my G5 and install it into an Intel PowerMac?

Man, I really have no idea what to do, so any advice at this point would be very much appreciated.

Thank you in advance...

Ian