Interesting conversation.
I tend to agree with most of the G bashing comments and I now own a G7. I sold a Fantom S to get something newer and with 76 keys. I wasn't overly impressed with the G, but GC was blowing them out a couple weeks ago so I figured what the heck. Sound-wise this keyboard is a mild evolutionary step forward and I agree that 256 megs of sounds on a "flagship" keyboard is an absolute joke. Roland does a decent job with this limited amount of space, but I don't understand either why they have to choke themselves with such a small sample set when memory chips are so cheap nowadays. They need to hire some new, forward thinking people. The market is screaming for something better, but as of yet, nobody is delivering. M3, Motif? blah - they all suck to some degree.
Keyboards offer a level of convenience though and I guess that's why I bought another one. I haven't tried the sequencer yet, I'm hoping it'll be this keyboard's saving grace. I could see scratching something out on the G7 and then augmenting with soft synths later.
Also, for grins, this is me with my old S (among other things)