MBP Purchasing Advice for a G5 user

Hi there. I'm a former PC user and I recently inherited my son's PowerPC G5 with 24 inch display that I absolutely love. it has OSX 10.4 and I use it for alot of graphics applications...all of the Adobe Creative Suite CS4 stuff. web sites, photoshop, Indesign, etc. really love that computer.
but i need portability for travel, which i do alot of. i'm struggling with which MBP to purchase. I'd like to continue to use the G5 at home, and have it be my primary graphics station, and only use the MBP for travel. but the MBP still needs to be able to run all the CS4 stuff. so, which MBP should i buy and is it silly to keep using the G5 for my primary work? it works really well for all of my needs.
also, i understand the G5 is stuck at OSX 10.4 and can't be upgraded higher. will the new MBP with snow leopard introduce complexities when i am going between the two, exchanging files, etc?
thanks for any advice.

I'd recommend the 15 in MBP. And in particular, if you can, the 2nd MBP. For several reasons. One will be screen size. Especially with graphic programs, big screens are invaluable. I couldn't do my web design on a tiny 13 in screen. The 15 in also have a bigger battery which will help with travel.
The 13 and the first MacBook Pro all have the 9400 graphics card. Which isn't as good as the previous graphics processor (8600). If you got the step up MBP it would have the 9400 and the 9600. The latter of which is definitely better. This allows for the battery to last longer on the standard graphics processor, but can easily switch over to the discreet graphics card when it needs to.
I haven't really done much with 10.4 so I am not sure about software. If you still have the discs yes! You should just be able to reinstall the programs on your new computer. As long as the software is generally newer and supports leopard, it should support snow leopard. There is a list of software that has problems available here (http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/).
As for exchanging files! You should be good there. It's still going from a Mac to a Mac. Even going to windows there usually isn't a problem.
Hope I helped!

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BR

+Naveed Jameel wrote:
<<Hi All,
One of my A/P user is unable to enter price on a Purchase Order as the PO Unit Price field is inactive. I have given this user full authorization on PO and activated the unit price field from form settings as well but as such nothing is happening. Can anybody tell me how to get it activated.>>+
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ADAM BURTON wrote:
> Hello, I have been looking through some of the
documentation on the Adobe web
> site and I have read several posts that have answered
some of my questions but
> I just want to be certain that Contribute is the product
that I need, or rather
> my client needs, for a web site that I am making. Thank
you very much for any
> advice that you can give, I apologise if my questions
are tedious and you have
> answered them before, by all means refer me to another
post that is relevant to
> my questions.
>
> Um... I am making a web site in Dreamweaver. Can I
upload the web site in the
> same way as I would if I was not using Contribute and
then allow someone else
> to come along and edit the page using this software? Or
put another way; can
> you use contribute to edit any page on the web providing
you have the
> appropriate access?
>
> I read in another post that the designer does not have
to own Contribute, only
> the client who will be editing the site does. What I
want to make sure about is
> that as the designer I will not have to do anything
different to what I would
> normally do and all of the Contribute use is at their
end.
>
> Thank you very much for your help. It is much
appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Adam.
>
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and
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basically to
create templates and make some changes that aren't possible
in
Contribute (such as folder renaming and mass file deletion),
but any new
pages I create using Contribute as well, though I could use
Dreamweaver.
for your second question:
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Server (CPS)
and this connect to Active Directory, allowing me to assign
users to
roles within Contribute. Now, while Dreamweaver does let me
administer
the website using Contribute screens, I don't know if I could
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without Contribute installed on the same PC (which it is).
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Yes.. but I don't know.

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bobbyblue wrote:
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Ted
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Is it possible to have two (or more) different icloud mail accounts (not alias) under the same apple id? If not what is you best advice for all family members to have their own e-mail and still share the purchases under the same apple id. Thanks

mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
So I basically won't run into any trouble? I
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mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
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mannyace wrote:
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mannyace wrote:
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