HI, I've been a lurker for a couple of years and this is my first post. I've used macs since the mac plus days but the highest OS I've used is 9.1, I currently have a StarMax 5000 (clone of mac 4400) with G3 card 300mhz.
My sister, a PC user, is a budding professional photographer who is starting a move into digital photography. She wants to buy a mac and told me she is thinking about a G4. I started researching and found that Apple is shipping a G4 1.25 and 1.25 DP with combo drives and prices are $1299 and $1599. super drives are $200 more. These also will boot up in OS 9 and OS X. My question is How do you think a 1.25 DP would compare to a G5 performance wise. Keep in mind that my sister would be dealing with raw photo files. Also check out this article that indicates the 1.25 DP is a better deal than the G5 1.6 and 1.8 single processor macs. They say the G5 2.0 DP would blow a G4 away but we are talking about a price of $2999. http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/03/0625.html I'd like to hear from people who have had experience manipulating photos on these systems. Also, this is a question for myself, since I'd like to get a new system, How valuable do you view a current G4 that is OS 9 bootable? Since all my software is written for OS 9 and before, should this be a major consideration or is the classic mode of OS X sufficient? ( I don't currently use professional audio apps) One last question, How do you think a powerbook 1.33ghz would compare in performance to a desktop 1.25 Dp or a 1.42 DP? Thanks in advance, David __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
