By delaying the lava-hot G5's use in iMacs and laptops, Apple is wisely awaiting the improvements that will make a good thing even better. Hot and bothered -- that describes the state many Macheads are in right now. Sure, they're stoked that Apple Computer has finally begun shipping the ballyhooed PowerMac G5 desktop machines. The G5, after all, is the future of Apple. The new chip and processor architecture -- with systems ranging from 1.6 gigahertz to dual processors running at 2 gigahertz -- goes a long way towards closing the yawning speed gap between Macs and Microsoft Windows machines.
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