On 26 Oct 2005, at 16:46, Konstantinos Theofilis wrote:
It should run OSX pretty decently. 10.3.x in particular seems to
work quite nicely on that sort of machine, although earlier
versions are noticeably a bit slower. I haven't tried 10.4.x on a
G3 myself yet so I'm not sure how well it will work. The most
important factor with 10.4 seems to be the amount of memory
installed, although 512Mb should be fine.
I'd put 512MB as a minimum on an older Mac, just to help things along.
A step up the Powermac ladder (to a Powermac [EMAIL PROTECTED]) would mean at
least another 50£... and this is not easy at the moment.. :-(
I don't really think that a G4 will be all that much of an
improvement over a G3 at the same clock speed for the sort of
things that you describe. If you're doing any sort of audio / video
work then the G4 would be an improvement.
If it is a PCI based G4/400 then it's not really worth it. If it's an
AGP one (a Sawtooth), then get it. They have faster memory
performance and will beat the PCI equivalent at most tasks, speed wise.
Stephen
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