[G4] More CPU for G4 450.

Kurt Appling wappling at tampabay.rr.com
Sun Jun 29 16:39:41 PDT 2003


Re; if it were me, I would wait another month and see where things are, 
right now there have not been any changes to speak of,and of course 
there is never a good time to buy a computer except when you need to.  
jmo


On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 05:28 PM, Paul Cooper wrote:

> OK but how about this scenario.
> I have a G4 400 Sawtooth with a Radeon 8500 video board, 1 G of RAM, 
> an ATA 133 pci card and four hard drives( 120, 120, 80 and 40).  I'm 
> not a power user by any means but do a little PhotoShop, word 
> processing, spread sheets, web prowling mp3s etc. Once the dust 
> settles and the G5 line shakes out somewhat (12 to 18 months?) I can 
> see myself behind the wheel of one of these nifty machines. In the 
> meantime do you folks think it makes sense to spend $$ on an upgrade 
> card (powerlogic 1.2 is currently about $450 +). Do your crystal ball 
> see a price drop in the upgrade cards as the resulting price plummet 
> that people are predicting for the G4s or will they hold steady?
> I'm in no real rush here but have been giving the upgrade path some 
> thought.



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