New to list and considering a 2002 G4

[Snow White]

Use ebay to compare the prices.  You and your friend should be able to 
adjust to market value as say, 3 or 4 sales of comparable hardware 
averaged out.

Opinion:  Dual 450 may seem a bit slow to work with DV but not bad to 
start with. 40 gig is small but it's easy to install a second 
inexpensive HD. CD burner is good to have and DVD RAM drive is good for 
personal storage but probably will not work in your DVD player on the 
TV - you will need to check into that though.  Apple DVD RAM drives 
were not compatable in the beginning - maybe that has changed.

jj

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 01:59 PM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:

> New to list and considering a 2002 G4
> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:50:29 -0800
>
> hi.
>
> i'm fairly new at using a mac.  i used one in college in an art class
> creating a digital mural and i worked on one as an editor of a 
> magazine.
> i'm in the process of buying a mac to use at home for the purposes of
> creating short (eventually feature is the plan) films and photography. 
>  my
> friend who is a music producer is selling his mac.  it's a 2002  G4 
> dual 450
> mgHz processor the hard drive has 40 gigabites it is equipped with a cd
> burner, player, dvd RAM cartridge, internet keyboard and has the 
> ability to
> put 9 gigabites on 1 bit.  he's selling it to me for $700.  since i 
> don't
> know to much about macs, i'm curious as to whether this is a good 
> price for
> what i'm getting and what i need.  any help would be very useful in my
> decision process.  thank you.
>
> sincerely,
>
> ymasumac