[G4] Upgrade of old G4/400Mhz/OS X-Jaguar?

[Techpriest]

I am running OSX 4 on a PowerMac G4/533 with 1.5gig ram and an iBook  
G3 600 with 384 ram.  The G4 is obviously faster, but both work well  
enough.  I have found a number of programs I wanted to run required  
10.4 and would quickly recommend it over the older OSXes.

Hard drives are cheap and are not Mac Specific.  I put two new 80gb  
drives in my G4 for $55 each (I mirrored them is why I got two).

You can upgrade the CPU, but not to Intel.  I was thinking of  
upgrading my G4 CPU but figured I would get more bang for my buck  
putting that money aside and getting a G5 or Intel later.  You can  
get a new Intel powered Mac Mini for $500 from CompUSA, some of the  
CPU upgrades are half that much or more.

Have fun learning a new world.  I sure did.


> I'm a Windows XP user that just got an old Mac with the following  
> specs:
>
>     -     400Mhz processor
>     -     running OS X 10.2/Jaguar?
>     -     384 meg ram--expandable to 1.5 gig via 4 slots of PC100  
> SDRAM mem.
>     -     10 gig drive--7 gig free