Get some real power. (Score 1)

The best price/power processor is the G5. Right now it is only available in a tower with non-ECC RAM. The good part is the RAM they use is actually very good quality and from the testing we've done there has been very few errors. Hopefully we'll see G5 xserves show up at macworld in january. The best part is apple has one of the best storage solutions available with the xserve raid. About middle of the pack as far as cost, but with top-end performance and integrity. There is no need to bother trying linux on a G5 box, OSX gets great rendering performance for both shake and maya. BTW, qmaster works on standard G5 towers, not just xserves.