[q] G5 Purchase
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#1 I would recommend getting a SUperdrive in an external firewire case. DVDrs play and read DVDs slow.
#2 get the base amount of RAM and buy it elsewhere - just be sure its name brand high-quality stuff or it'll give you massive problems
#3 get the dual CRTs if you're using apps that us a lot of palettes - photoshop, FCP etc come to mind
Any CRT will work. The G5 will come with one adaptor but you'll need a second for the other port - which you can get at www.drbot.com around $40
You should have no problems with 2 CRTs. Just plug em in. THen arrange em how you want in the monitor prefs.
Sometimes OS X does weird things with two, however. Sometimes it lines up icons in the middle of the 'gutter' of the two screens. This might be fixed in Panther. I don't know.
You can just add an identical drive and set it up for RAID 0
OS X supports it and runs great with it.