what to do?

[franciscogchin]

Ok, so I bought a power mac g4 with like 500mhz processor, idk how much ram but less than 600, and idk what else, for like 85 dollars. I was thinking of upgrading it to a 1ghz processor and 2 gig ram. I already bought a 160gb hard drive. and I bought os x leopard thinking it would work (but it doesnt because of the processor)...and I asked in another forum (mac-forum I think). and they told me that it would be a waste to upgrade it to these specs. and that I would be better off with a mac mini. the mac mini would have 1.8ghz, 1 gig ram, and 80gb hard drive. it would cost 600 which is about how much it would cost to upgrade the g4....what do you guys think?

 

[IroquoisPliskin]

They are right on part.

The amount of money you would waste on that old G4 could buy you a Mini that would outperform it in every task. The other part is that the Mini is two generations behind in technology and is a very poor value.

If you are any good with a soldering iron you can bump your CPU up to 550mhz for free. Throw a decent HD in there, get the ram up to at least 1gb and return the Leopard disk for a refund if you can.

 

[franciscogchin]

ok. well I think I cant return the disk...so I am thinking of buying a used mac mini with os 10.4 and use the cd. is this worth it?

http://www.powermax.com/parts/show/c