[G4] Re: MiniMac or G4 Upgrade

[Robert MacLeay]

With a Mini, what you will get is a Mac which surfs the internet five times
as fast, but runs Photoshop at half the speed.

The Mini is super for someone who lives in iLife/iWork, but won¹t cut it
with demanding professional programs.

Users of professional programs are in a bind for the next year, as we wait
for genuinely intel-studly applications to appear. Remember that
applications under Rosetta require about three times the RAM as on a PPC
Mac, and you will see that even maxed out, a Mini won¹t cut it for
industrial use. Remember, too, that maxing out the RAM will cost you a lot.

If you want more than you already have, on a budget, bottom-feeder G5s are
selling regularly on eBay for under $800.

I would not recommend using firewire/USB drives for other than occasional
use; they are not suitable for running several hours a day, and because of
the interface are far slower than internal drives.


On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:27:55 -0500, Richard Northouse <rnorthouse at wi.rr.com>
wrote:
    
>    I have a Quicksilver (G4, OSX.Tiger, 3 drives --
>    80g, 180g and 120g, 1gig ram,
>    Superdrive, 17" apple display, 733mHz clock). I have
>    been thinking about getting a processor upgrade to maybe
>    1.6-1.8 gHz.  But today a friend was telling me about
>    his mini-mac duo. It has a 80 g drive, 512 meg of ram, a
>    Superdrive, with a 1.83 gHz clock.  The list price is
>    $599 (or maybe 699 - I might have forgot).

>    But this little baby is about the price of the processor
>    upgrade - plus I get the ability to run Windoz. I can
>    probably put my second and third drives on a firewire
>    box. I can also up the memory to a gig or two. My Apple
>    display and keyboard will plug into the new box.

>    I do a lot of Microsoft Office (word, excel,
>    powerpoint), some Photoshop, and internet stuff.

>    So what is the best deal  -- upgrade or minimac?
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