Hello Rage, you've missed a few things...

Here's the performance page from the Apple site.

https://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

And if you notice, Apple didn't do the testing of these sytems. Veritest did. You can find their results here:

https://www.veritest.com/

or download their .pdf here:

https://www.veritest.com/clients/repo....asp?visitor=X

If anything stands to question then it would be Veritests results, not Apple's.

What's going to stand out more so than any benchmark test, is going to be the throughput of the system. Apple's G5 appears to run even better in dual configurations, so these tests showing only one processor comparisons aren't really a tell all situation. What I don't really understand is how are they (Apple or Veritest) even getting accurate results from the system when there isn't a 64 bit OS finished for OS X. Is this just testing the 32 bit compatibility features of the G5? Or will the results be even better once OS 10.3 (64 bit) comes out? That's what I find most interesting.

IBM has already started work on the PPC 980, which is the next revision of the PPC 970 which Apple calls the G5. These should be ready by next year, and I'm sure they'll be much, much faster than these. Stay tuned folks...

By the way, anyone want to buy a DP 1ghz G4... I think it's worth about $2 now... I'll sell it cheap... LOL

And, my favorite quote of the day, from Ed Catmull, President of Pixar, "It's very important at Pixar that we be able to show our frames at full resolution and the G5 let's us see every pixel on the screen and send it around the studio. That's fantastic. After running our renderman benchmarks, we can now say that the G5 is the fastest desktop in the world" (Quote taken from the Highend3d.com mailing list)

Now, when will Maya be 64 bit for Mac OS X? Or any 64 bit program for OS X? That's what I want to know.