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Power Mac G4 800MHz good purchase still?

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spimp31

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I can purchase a Power Mac G4 800MHz Quicksilver model with mouse, keyboard, and 17 inch cinema display for $400. It features a 40 GB HD, and 512 MB memory.

Currently I have a 12 inch G4 Powerbook, 1.33 GHz, 512 MB memory. How would the performance of the Power Mac compare to my powerbook? Is this a bargain or about what I should be paying? Thanks.
 
spimp31 said:
I can purchase a Power Mac G4 800MHz Quicksilver model with mouse, keyboard, and 17 inch cinema display for $400. It features a 40 GB HD, and 512 MB memory.

Currently I have a 12 inch G4 Powerbook, 1.33 GHz, 512 MB memory. How would the performance of the Power Mac compare to my powerbook? Is this a bargain or about what I should be paying? Thanks.
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That is an extremely good price. The 17" display (assuming it is LCD) is worth $350-$400 alone. Throw in a the G4 and thats probably worth $600-$800. Awesome deal!
 
Go for it a 800mhz G4 is still a top class machine, the ability to add cheap storage and a nice dvd burner can make it a very fucntional machine,

ShadoW
 
Kinda...

It depends on what you plan on using the G4 800 for. While you can edit video and play some games nicely with this machine, you'll notice the agp video card will need to be upgraded ($80 for a GEFORCE MX5200 or ATI 9000) and your system bus speed is probably lower in this machine compared to a mac mini - which will have a better video card, bus speed, and newer memory technology. The G4 is nice if you want to upgrade components internally. The trade off is whether you can live with external upgrades on the mini - hard drives, etc. Personally, I'd see about $350-375 and then its a very good buy.
 
One other Intel'ish consideration

Another thing to consider when deciding to go Old vs New is the product's support cycle. The G4 800 will certainly be phased out before the mini via system requirements even though Macs do have a long shelf cycle...hopefully even after Intel.
 
Buy it, definitely. Sell it if you don't need it or turn it into an FTP server, HTTP server, etc. It has an L3 cache, remember, which makes it quite fast...:D
 
moonislune said:
Another thing to consider when deciding to go Old vs New is the product's support cycle. The G4 800 will certainly be phased out before the mini via system requirements even though Macs do have a long shelf cycle...hopefully even after Intel.
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they definately still will :)
 
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