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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 980646" data-attributes="member: 56231"><p>A Pro is for high-end, high-demand video and graphics editing/processing. It's also used for music production. A G5 will do the same, only less efficiently and less quickly.</p><p></p><p>Essentially, and this doesn't tell the whole story, a Pro is super-duper G5 tower, with faster, more powerful processors (Intel). It will handle anything but the kitchen sink thrown at it. Unless you're extremely fortunate, US$1K will not buy you a used Mac Pro. </p><p></p><p>For what you've told us you want to do, but couldn't do successfully with the G4, I'd say a G5 is sufficient for your purposes.</p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">[For comparison, a Mac Pro starts at US$1850 - used - in NZ; a used G5 (dual 2 GHz) starts at US$500.]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 980646, member: 56231"] A Pro is for high-end, high-demand video and graphics editing/processing. It's also used for music production. A G5 will do the same, only less efficiently and less quickly. Essentially, and this doesn't tell the whole story, a Pro is super-duper G5 tower, with faster, more powerful processors (Intel). It will handle anything but the kitchen sink thrown at it. Unless you're extremely fortunate, US$1K will not buy you a used Mac Pro. For what you've told us you want to do, but couldn't do successfully with the G4, I'd say a G5 is sufficient for your purposes. [size=1][For comparison, a Mac Pro starts at US$1850 - used - in NZ; a used G5 (dual 2 GHz) starts at US$500.][/size] [/QUOTE]
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