Running Logic on a Macbook or G5 Powermac?

Hi, I have a friend who is a music producer and wants to move from cubase to logic, he is looking to get a mac but wonders if it would run ok on a Intel Core 2 Duo with about 4gb RAM or should he get a G5 Powermac as he cannot afford the intel version?
Thanks in advance
Paul

That really depends on your friends' expansion needs (PCI cards, extra HD's). The only G5 model that is comparable to Intel iMacs in terms of speed, is the 2x2 core 2.5 GHz model (2005). All the others have roughly only half the power of equivalent Intel C2D iMacs.
But iMacs are less expandable than the G5 towers, so that is the main point: can he do without PCI cards and without extra internal drives? Then go iMac.
Some Benchmarks:
iMac C2D 2.0(Late 2006) : 2637
G5 2,5 quad (Late 2005): 3284
iMac C2D 2.66 (Early2008): 3513
id. 2.4: 3220

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