<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Hi all! My mom was cleaning out the basement and let me take her pretty-close-to-stock G4/500 (it has a stick of 64 megs of RAM in it in addition to the stock 256, but that's all the changes that I can see.)<br>
<br>I know this is far from the latest and greatest (I have a Macbook Core 2 Duo now) but I think the upgradeability of it is pretty cool. I just want to play around with it, recognizing that it can't do everything newer machines can do, and it's not as fast. So I don't want to spend a Mac Mini-sized amount of money on it. I'd be using it for iTunes, NeoOffice, surfing...light stuff. Not iMovie or processor-intensive design work; I assume it's not well suited for that in its stock configuration.<br>
<br>So my thoughts are:<br><br>1. See if it still works (it turns on, I hear the disk spinning, but I didn't hear the Mac "bong")<br><br>2. Get a monitor (this was already in my plans, because I wanted one for when I need to work for a long time on my Macbook. Can the video card in this computer work with today's monitors?)<br>
<br>3. Get more RAM<br><br>4. Install Tiger<br><br>5. Hard drive? Superdrive? Processor upgrade? I've read that a processor upgrade is not a good investment because these machines are still so behind the Intel Macs. A super drive is not that expensive, so, maybe? I already have an external firewire drive that I use for Time Machine backups, so I don't know about getting a hard drive. But I know they're also pretty cheap, so, maybe?<br>
<br>I don't need wireless because I have an Airport Extreme Base Station and (I'm assuming) I can just connect it by Ethernet.<br><br>Is there anything I'm not thinking of? Any other suggestions you experts might have? Thanks very much in advance for any advice you may be able to lend!</span><br>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Christina</span></div>