I purchased a dual g5 in mid 04 and was told it was the wave of the future for computing etc and the price reflected it, over $3,000. Being a graphic designer I have only purchased apple products over the years, but now I feel apple has turned their back on g5 users. I think they forgot who their base was, offering new idiosyncrasies such as bootcamp to appeal to those who want to post videos of them playing PC games on a mac for publicity. In work related issues, ms office files were compatible before and are still compatible without bootcamp. The only time I have ever needed the use of a PC was to author an interactive dvd in macromedia director that required both licenses. Now there are multiple apple applications out there that require the use of an intel mac, which is ridiculous. Makes me upset that I put so much work into this computer, will the 8 gigs of ram i purchased be compatible with an intel mac, howabout the video card upgrades which I have made? The g5 came stock with a nvidia 5200, at the time it was a crap card which was also a slap in the face I doubt my upgrades will be compatible with an intel motherboard. I know that technology keeps on moving, its inevitable and i am not denying that. I am stating that once apple signed on with intel they sold out and left their customer base in the dust. Now if I had known the intel mac was eventually coming out and would make all previous apple products obsolete I would have held off on the purchases I had made, again this wasn't the case. The least they could have done was announce R&D prior to the release of their new product. Sorry if this seems like a rant, there are just more and more things I seem to not be able to do with this computer. It makes me think that when the next OS comes out that it will require an intel based processor to run it, they already seem to be heading in that direction with tiger...