What to buy? - G5 or Intel ? ?

Daughter #1 needs a new computer so I'm giving her my 1 year old iMac G5 17" 1.8 ghz. That means I can upgrade to a 20" iMac. I'm torn about buying an iMac Intel or a 2.1 ghz G5.
Outside of the iLife suite, Safari and Mail, I use the iMac with Office 2004, Photoshop Elements 2.0, and old Max Payne game (shooting bad guys relieves stress) and a fair amount of DVD burning.
The only thing I really hated about the current iMac was the sloooow DVD burning. I would only burn at 1x.
I think the latest G5 had taken care of CPU cooling issues, so...what do do? Intel or G5. Any suggestions or comments would be appreciate

The only app of the ones you've listed that I'd be concerned about is Photoshop Elements, and that's probably fine because things will simply run more slowly - not unacceptably.
Aside from that, there are little teething issues at the moment like Flash or video format plug-ins not working quite right, but if you're willing to wait it out those should be cleared up fairly quickly.
As such, it's more a matter of how future-proof you want to be. If you don't mind your existing apps running at less than peak performance until you upgrade to Intel-native ones (where possible), go with Intel. If not, go with the iMac G5; it's still a quick and useful machine, and it won't become obsolete that quickly.

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