I also don't think there was a question of youtube on the G5. I watch youtube and hulu on our G5s at work all the time, the question was NetFlix.

Also, youtube, even on x86 PCs with Windows (where Flash works best) Flash is a pretty horsepower-intensive way to deliver content, and the h.264 encoding most flash videos you is also faairly horsepower intensive.

As an update on this particular concept of "Cory gets a new computer this year" -- I've decided to go ahead and skip the G5 and go for a new x86 machine for virtualization tasks. Probably more details about that later on in the lounge.