Ok. I had my sights set on an iMac G5, prolly 20inch, 1GB of RAM, the 160gig HD, the price I would be able to get it for: About £1100... to £1200. That was fine. I was saving up... and that was cool. Then I read on some other forums, a nice guy, one of the other members, is selling his cube Man I love the design on those things!
Here are the specs on it (heavily upgraded): 1.2 GHZ Sonnet upgraded processor
1.5 GB RAM
120 GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive
Original Power Brick
Original Keyboard and Mouse
Original Harmon Kardon Apple Pro Spealers
I will include the original 40 GB Maxtor Hard Drive and the 450 Mhz processor in the package.
(i have added a base fan and have had no problems with overheating)
Also, I would need a screen, and he will put an older style 17inch apple studio display. Add insured shipping to the UK... $2000
I can push the price down a bit, so lets call that £1000. So: I can have: an iMac G5 17 or 20inch for £1000/£1100-£1200. Or, I can have: A PowerMac G4 Cube: £1000. The advantages I can see are:
iMac: If 20inch, better screen. Brand new, not used already. Warranty. G5!
Cube: IMHO, better design. 500MB more RAM. And... possibly cheaper... Oh - and the design . Again. That counts twice
Another option I can have is the cube system for $400 less, without a screen, run it off an old CRT for a while, then buy a 20inch, or something nice (will the cube run one of the new 20inchers?)
Another question: Is Tiger likely to be compatible with the cube? Thats a must.
So, there we go In a roundabout sort of way, that the situation
What do you think I should do?
Thanks
EDIT: Almost forgot, some pics : One
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Screenshot
There we go... NOW what do you think...
Here are the specs on it (heavily upgraded): 1.2 GHZ Sonnet upgraded processor
1.5 GB RAM
120 GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive
Original Power Brick
Original Keyboard and Mouse
Original Harmon Kardon Apple Pro Spealers
I will include the original 40 GB Maxtor Hard Drive and the 450 Mhz processor in the package.
(i have added a base fan and have had no problems with overheating)
Also, I would need a screen, and he will put an older style 17inch apple studio display. Add insured shipping to the UK... $2000
I can push the price down a bit, so lets call that £1000. So: I can have: an iMac G5 17 or 20inch for £1000/£1100-£1200. Or, I can have: A PowerMac G4 Cube: £1000. The advantages I can see are:
iMac: If 20inch, better screen. Brand new, not used already. Warranty. G5!
Cube: IMHO, better design. 500MB more RAM. And... possibly cheaper... Oh - and the design . Again. That counts twice
Another option I can have is the cube system for $400 less, without a screen, run it off an old CRT for a while, then buy a 20inch, or something nice (will the cube run one of the new 20inchers?)
Another question: Is Tiger likely to be compatible with the cube? Thats a must.
So, there we go In a roundabout sort of way, that the situation
What do you think I should do?
Thanks
EDIT: Almost forgot, some pics : One
Two
Three
Four
Screenshot
There we go... NOW what do you think...