[G4] Upgrading a Quicksilver 2002 933

[John Smutko]

Hi Andrea-

My Mom is currently running a Quicksilver that I upgraded to a 1.8GHz  
MaxPower G4 along with a Radeon 9800 Pro that I got on eBay.  It's  
quite snappy and stable running 10.5.6 and has no problem with Java  
games or Photoshop.  It's noticeably slow editting video compared to a  
modern machine.  Everything I just described also applies to the  
similarly equipped Sawtooth I'm typing this on.  I think with the  
processor and video card upgrade you'll be quite satisfied, but you  
could spend just a bit more than that and get a new Mini that will  
mostly outperform it.  My venerable Sawtooth has an SATA card and a  
couple of Western Digital 1 TB GreenPower drives in it.  It's destined  
to become a fileserver for the home network and I'm going to get a new  
Mac as my main desktop machine, eventually.

-John