Scott, Your speed should increase if you add more RAM and moving up to Tiger will also help. These older machines are still valuable. I have one that is slightly newer and I still think that it is an amazing machine when you consider how old it is. I bought it in 2000. You can also pick up a faster processor for a few hundred bucks that can push it beyond a Ghz and you can keep it running for a few more years yet. I am going to see if I can get ten years out of my G4 tower. Bill