Chris's Christmas shopping: Apple Power Mac quad-core G5

By Chris Stevens on 01 December 2005, 2:30pm

This is the first installment in a series of posts in which I, your favourite Crave reporter, will spend £5,000 on the Christmas presents I most desire in the world. My first choice is the quad-core Apple Power Mac G5.

Some computers are fast, others are raging demons of hell-fulled anger that blister through Photoshop tasks like US soldiers taking out Vietnamese jungle. There is no fury like an Apple scorned, and this company has had its fair share of detractors over the years.

Perhaps you are less easily swayed, but I cannot resist the seductive lure of the aluminium chassis, the perforated vents, the quad-core G5 processor. The tech which beats aggressively in this silver womb instills in me the kind of desire that cannot be reasonably described in polite company. This G5 quite simply is the best Christmas present anyone could hope to recieve.

At £2,299, this G5 takes a fair chunk out of the £5,000 budget I've been given to squander by my CNET overlords, but I don't care: I can buy it at the Apple Store and that's what I'm going to do. But can you put a price on two dual-core 2.5GHz PowerPC processors, PCI-Express expansion slots and an Nvidia GeForce 6600 graphics card? I'd posit not.

These G5s are used extensively by the music and film industries. Fans of Peter Jackson will notice that his weekly video diaries on the set of King Kong show a farm of G5s glistening away in the background. If the quad-core is good enough for the world's most successful movie director, it's good enough for my stocking. -Chris Stevens

Chris has already bought these items:
Apple Power Mac G5 quad-core

He has £2,701 to spend before Christmas Day.
Click here to find out more about Crave's Christmas shopping spree.