[G4] MiniMac or G4 Upgrade

[Tim Collier]

Upgrade!  The video on the Mini is 'shared'.  Especially if you use  
Photoshop, you won't like it!  Not to mention that none of those apps  
have been released in Universal format yet.  I have a MacBook which  
shares the 'shared video' in common with the Mini.  I won't use this  
for more than email and web browsing.  I originally transferred  
Office to it from the iBook that I upgraded from and was disappointed  
by the performance of Office under Rosetta.
Now, my desktop is a new Mac Pro.  The performance of Office and  
Photoshop is hardly, if at all noticeable.  Actually they 'seem' to  
run faster than on my G5 dual 2 gig that it replaced.  The Mini is  
not expandable beyond adding Firewire or USB drives.  You'll be  
saddled with a crippled Mac.  Definitely upgrade to a faster  
processor on your G4.  You'll be much more pleased with the result.

Tim
On Sep 20, 2006, at 9:27 PM, Richard Northouse wrote:

> I have a question for all you smart people;
>
> 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?
>
> I will certainly appreciate any comments you folks might have.
>
> Thanks much.
>
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Tim Collier