SuBHuMaNGuY Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 I noticed this guy has two Dual 450mhz G4 PowerMacs availible and i'm seriously considering buying one since my current mac is a beige G3. I'm just wonderin, do you guys think this thing will run Panther pretty smoothly? I think he's asking a fairly resonable price and if you guys think the performance will be pretty good then I'll probably go for it. Ah, and I'll be running stuff like Garageband, Safari, iChat, Xcode.... maybe a little iPhoto Specs: Dual 450mhz G4 processors 512 SDRAM RAM Default video card (I think AGP Rage 128 Pro 16MB) 30GB HDD DVD Drive Thanks for any assistance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilsbury Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 Should be fine, as long as you are getting a resonable deal. Just check that faster machines aren't just a little more pricy, and therefore worth saving a bit more... That's certainly the case here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Veteran Posted January 28, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 28, 2004 Unfortunately, Garageband needs a 600Mhz processor to run. Buy the G4 if its at a very reasonable price. Down the bottom. http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/uk...1.4.1.2.0.0.1.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuBHuMaNGuY Posted January 28, 2004 Author Share Posted January 28, 2004 Well It's $480 shipped... that looks good to me... any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isus Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 it's a good price... but it won't be the best computer. you should try to find a cheap emac... it would be faster (and run garageband) and only a few hundred more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 Unfortunately, Garageband needs a 600Mhz processor to run.Buy the G4 if its at a very reasonable price. Down the bottom. http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/uk...1.4.1.2.0.0.1.0 That's odd, I got it to run on my G3 400Mhz (I didn't try to do much with it, but it did run). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuBHuMaNGuY Posted January 28, 2004 Author Share Posted January 28, 2004 Yeah i was under the impression it just required a G3 or G4. I figured the dual processor goodness would be pretty smooth.... but I'm still hesitant... especially now that i'm unsure if I can use Garageband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fusion Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 I bought the same system this summer from a guy for $400 US. I put a better video card in it to handle quartz extreme and then used it running Jaguar for a couple months. It ran just fine and pretty smooth. Not near as fast as my 1Ghz Powerbook now, but it still did everything I wanted it to. However, because I was using it as my second computer, I did not do any hardcore work on it with photoshop or anything. So the performance that I experienced was mainly with browsing the web and other menial tasks. The killer is I then put it on eBay and got $1100 for it. Bought it at $400, made a $700 dollar profit. I then took that, invested it and saved some more while I waited for the powerbooks to be updated as that was my true end goal. I would suggest buying it at this price, because it is a killer deal, then selling it on eBay. Take your profit and capital and invest in a single processor G4, maybe even a titanium powerbook 867. I bet you could get one for around that price and they use SDRAM so RAM is fairly cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mihir Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 i'd say your taking a bit of a risk, might be a better idea to get the lowest one from the mac store Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 Yeah i was under the impression it just required a G3 or G4. I figured the dual processor goodness would be pretty smooth.... but I'm still hesitant... especially now that i'm unsure if I can use Garageband. you can run Garageband. It works fine on my Cube (500MHz G4), albeit far from snappy... Sounds a good price to me tho mate... Just fill it with RAM, and it'll be nice i am sure.... :) Edit: Mihir - I think someone will grill you about your sig, people mention mine, but now it seems small by comparison! ha ha :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 Go for it. Dual systems run much better than they seem. I'd definately take it over ANY eMac mihir: Yeah...that sig is a bit extreme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuBHuMaNGuY Posted January 28, 2004 Author Share Posted January 28, 2004 Yeah I e-mailed the guy...I'm fairly sure I"m going to get it at this point. I figure if I don't like it I can always just sell it... someone will buy it... thanks for the responses :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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