IMac or Power Mac G5? Moving from PC to Mac

I'm a PC user now and am fed up with Windows. I just recently went to a Mac store and am now a changed man. Here's my delemma. I am an amature photographer and love to use Photoshop Elements. I also do a lot of multitasking for my day job and need power. I will be needing to run a proprietary PC program on the Mac since it is what I use every day. I'm hoping it will work. But once I make the decision to move to the Mac, I'm not sure whether I should go with the iMac or the Power Mac G5. If I max out the iMac with the 2 gb of memory, upgrade the HD to max and the graphics card, it's still cheaper than if I start doing upgrades on the Power Mac. I don't need ridiculous power, but I want to make sure that if I max out the options on the iMac that it will handle heavy duty work. I'm leaning more towards the iMac because of it's compact footprint. I would love, however, one day to have a high definition monitor to do my photos on.
Love to hear some feedback.
Thanks.
Mark

Well, I considered the iMac G5 but was told that the new Intel ones are faster. I'm also concerned that the one PC program I'd like to run on it may be more compatible if I use the iMac Intel. I was also told that Photoshop Elements will be coming out with a version for this Intel chip. If they do, wouldn't the iMac Intel be a better choice?
Mark
MARK.......
You could buy a new iMac G5!
That's what I did 2 weeks ago. I went to my Apple
store and tested out
both the Intel iMac and the G5 iSight iMac 20' 2.1.
The G5 iMac is really fast and will definitely do
everything you want it to
do and more. Also, current apps will run natively on
it via PPC. This means
that there is NO EMULATION PROCESS whatsoever so you
don't have Rosetta slowing anything down.
My iMac G5 is by far faster than my Mac Mini and
faster at running apps until they become universal
some time this year or next.
I'm a professional photographer and my G5 iMac is
awesome! The ONLY real reason you would by a PowerMac
is for professional video editing. A PowerMac is
faster at rendering videos and burning them to DVD
and stuff.
I decided to stay with a PPC G5 iMac and might
upgrade next year sometime if really necessary. But
this G5 will definitely work for me and all I need to
do for at least a year if not 2 years.
If you max out a G5 iMac, you'll be more than happy!

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