Anyone have a G5 or new Macbook

depends. do you want a tower or a laptop?!

well actually in this case it does because the macbooks are portible (laptop) and are on intel technology hence being called Mac Intels.

The G5 is still on ppc technology (which i personally still prefer) and never went to laptop. so it’s a towerPC (as it were…PC means personal computer fyi)

If you just want a standard computer that will provide a solid foundation for which you can record and manipulate stuff (to what i understand would be at a basic level) and simply burn CD’s

Dude, you’re better off getting a Dell.

I’d be more helpful if you actually put in more detail into what exactly you wan’t. Clearly you’re after a mac, but WHY? (probably because they look pretty and so n so told you that you gotta get a mac just coz…) and what exactly do you need the mac to do as standard…

It aint rocket science to be more specific

You say a lot faster…but that will only affect software that is in Universal Binary….other’s that are still on the ppc platform won’t be able to fully utilise the mac intel platform just yet.

Still….there’s a lot to consider if you want a portable laptop or a stationary desktop.