| One great thing about a tower is redundancy.
You can have:
-two monitors
-two hard drives
-multiple memory sticks (RAM)
It's fairly easy for a user to swap out an optical drive, graphics card, whatever.
If any one component of a laptop fails (or you drop it or spill a hot coffee all over it), you are S.O.L. until it gets repaired... Plus there's the paranoia that goes along with carting dongles around with a laptop...
Obviously, I prefer a laptop for field work or non-critical duties. I'd keep the G4 laptop (I have one as well) and get a Mac Pro (hang on a couple more weeks for 8 core models - or the corresponding price drop on current quads). |