Ramblings of a Programmer

OK… what kind of Apple would the teacher want? 

Unfortunately, I cannot afford the dual 2.7 GHz Power Mac system at
this time.  I really do not want the liquid cooled system anyway
due to some of the things that I have heard about it not lasting more
than a couple of years, albeit rumors.  I cannot decide between
the dual 2.0 GHz and the dual 2.3 GHz system, however.

The major differences between the two are 160 gig vs 250 gig hard
drive, and PCI slots vs PCI-X slots.  The hard drive space is not
that big of a deal.  Hard drives are cheap and if I ever ran out
of space on the 160 gig in the dual 2.0 GHz system, I could buy another
one.  The PCI-X slots would be a nice-to-have, but as I saw
someone post over in MacRumors forums today, PCI-X on a non-server
machine is kind of a waste.

I do not see myself doing anything with Fiber-Channel or anything like
that, so would it really be worth the money for the extra bit of hard
drive space and the PCI-X slots?

At first, I thought I had decided on the dual 2.3 GHz system, but now I am not sure about that.

Oh… decisions… decisions. 

Apple announced updates to their Power Mac line of
computers today.  The new systems do not include the new 970MP
(dual core) CPU at this time.  The top of the line Dual 2.7 GHz G5
system is still a water-cooled system.

Apple also announced price drops
on their Cinema display line of LCD monitors.  The drops on the
20″ and 23″ HD Cinema displays of $200 and $300 respectively were nice,
but it was disappointing to not see a price drop on the top-end 30″ HD
Cinema Display.