a mac and a loan...
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Being in debt really sucks, unless you can totally guarantee you're going to earn $X per month.. but almost no-one has this guarantee! However, credit is useful when you're making a wise investment in your future.
So.. I'd say a 'wise investment' would probably be trying to pick up a really high end G4, or perhaps just the dual G5 1.8GHz, rather than going all out just because it's a loan.
Even my iBook 1GHz is just about fast enough to do most graphics work (although it'd suck on the 100MB+ high res print stuff). You really need to max out the RAM on whatever you get and make sure (if it's a notebook) you have a fast drive. CPU isn't quite so important.
Last, but not least, I have a client (repro house) who still do mega print jobs on beige PowerMac G3s (400MHz and less)! So.. really.. as long as you max out the RAM, you don't necessarily need the G5, unless it's an image thing.