Should I buy the new imac or?

My lease has expired on my G4 Dual 1.25 ghz, 1MB SDRAM and (2) 180GB harddrives and multiple LaCie external Firewire drives and 20" display. I primarily use Final Cut Pro, Motion, Live Type and DVD studio Pro and have not had many issues regarding RT processing and speed. But it is time to upgrade. Would I be well served going to a maxed out imac 20" core duo' 2MB SDRAM, 256MB Vram, 500GB hard Drive or go to a G5 tower and spend a lot more money? I am thinking I would see a substantial improvement over what I am using now with the souped up imac. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Allegedly, Universal versions of the software you're using (at least the Apple apps like Final Cut Pro) are due out in March, but if you're not sure you can wait that long, you might want to go ahead with the G5 tower; I'm thinking they won't switch the towers to Intel until they have relatively bug-free versions of the Pro products out there, and possibly not till Adobe gets off their posterior and gets out new Universal versions of their software (I'm a little ticked off at Adobe right now, can't you tell?), meaning probably not till Q3 perhaps.
Or can you extend your lease on the G4 for another 6 months, to see what's happening with the Universal update on your software?

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