Advice on upgrading G5 PPC dual 2GHz to run Adobe CS5 and more

Currently running a PowerPC dual 2GHz G5 Mac with 1GB RAM, 160GB HD and OSX 10.4.11. My company is going to upgrade to Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 which requires Intel-base machines. We have 10 desktops that need upgrading but a limited budget. Which Intel Mac would you recommend for running CS5.5, QuarkXPress 7.5, MSOffice2011, FileMaker Pro 9? What have been the issues with Snow Leopard and has there been any stability surrounding it? Thanks in advance!

Oh well with $40k you're going to be just fine.
The 27" iMac with the following specs is only $2,718.
2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
8GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB
2TB Serial ATA Drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM
Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) & User's Guide
Magic Mouse
AppleCare Protection Plan for iMac - Auto-enroll
Should easily be enough to do what you want. If you think you might want to up the RAM a bit then 16GB of RAM would only raise the price to $3,118. These all of course include the AppleCare on them as well.
Then if you wanted to add a couple laptops for portability then they are of a similar price as well.
Think about it a bit though. 21.5" iMac's could probably do you well enough running the i5 and are a bit cheaper at around $2,218 a unit.
Mac Mini's are much, much weaker in specs and you would also have to buy a monitor for all of them (Around $100-$200 for a decent one) with a price in the range of $1300.
I would suggest some 21.5" iMac's as well as some of the 27" ones keeping it around $25k-$30k in range giving you $10k+ to work with for software.
Hope this helps.

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