Well I appreciate all the advice. I have a lot more to think about now. What got me started on all this was the fact that my Blueberry Apple Studio Display CRT(the one that went with the Power Mac G3 B&W) is no more and I thought I might be able to get what seemed at least on the surface a faster Mac for what I would pay for a new monitor and the whole computer would take up as much room as my old monitor did all by itself freeing up some space. I was also reading an article on LEM about upgrading the Emac with external peripherals and it got me thinking. With firewire external peripherals would I really miss USB 2.0? I could connect a firewire 400 external drive with 1TB easily and the difference in maxing out the RAM is 1GB on the Emac and 1.5 GBs on the DA. Plus I would have to spend nearly as much to get my DA up to snuff. I was also thinking with the purchase of the Emac I could break even selling the DA which would be nice. I guess I have plenty to think about.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Valter Prahlad <valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it> wrote: > Il giorno 16-03-2011 6:18, Scotty ha scritto: > >> I have a Power Mac >> Digital Audio 733mhz with 512 MB of RAM and I have just had the >> opportunity to purchase a 1.0Ghz Emac all in one. I am just >> wondering which computer would be more effective for my needs. > > I'd stay with the G4 DA, investing the money into upgrades. > First, memory: 1GB Ram should be enough. > Second, maybe, a processor upgrade; I think you could find something cheap > on eBay. > > I have a G4 DA as well, originally 667 MHz, now with 1GB Ram and a 1.4 GHz > CPU upgrade. I'm using it professionally for DTP, with Adobe CS3... so it's > still a very good machine, being born in 2001. :-) > > Another advantage of having a desktop unit, you can easily upgrade its > components: apart from Ram, I changed several HDs, added a GeForce 4 video > card and USB2 card, etc. (you can't do most of that with an eMac). > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
