[G4] upgrade or buy new mac?

[Richard Klein]

I'd take the middle road.  Don't upgrade the DP500, and don't buy a new Mac.
Instead, pick up a lightly used MDD.  You can probably get one for roughly
the same price as a Mini, it'll come with a faster processor, fast enough
for everything except the latest iMovie, and it'll have a faster bus, to
boot.

-- 
Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Russell
> 
> Just bought my wife a new Macbook so of course we are now feeling the need
> to upgrade or replace the desktop.
> 
> Right now I have a DP500 with 2 gigs of ram an ATI 9200 video card pushing
> to 20" LCDs and it is running Tiger.  What I would like is a machine that
> doesn't seem quite so sluggish while scrolling through my e-mail,  run the
> latest iphoto  and office.  I would be nice to run Leopard (is it required
> for the new iphoto?)  I've thought about a mini but I want to keep the
> dual monitors.  So do I try a processor and video card upgrade? ( I need a
> new video card in the DP450 in the basement so it could take the 9200) or
> do a go with a whole new box?  Of course I'd like to keep things a cheap
> as possible but I'm not sure if I'd be better continuing to soup up the
> old girl or go for something with a faster bus.
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated!