Please bear with me here folks...
After whacking the hd for probably the hundredth time on my emachines T3422 due to viruses and other such bugs, I am making the switch.
My brother gave me an older 800mhz G4 Powermac with which to start. It needs a little work, i.e. new dual drive, possibly new HD, some memory, etc. Here is my question...I'm currently running an Intel Celeron D 346 processor (3.06GHz clock speed, 256 KB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB). Obviously a 3.06GHz processor is substantially faster than an 800MHz processor, but I've been told that comparing a celeron to a powerpc processor is apples to oranges. How much of a noticable difference will this be for me? What might be a comparable processor speed? Now, to let you in on a little of what I expect from this machine? Not much. I surf the web, stream some video, update and store my itunes/ipods (none of which are over 8gb). I mean I'm not storing a massive library of music, or rendering video or anything...just a basic system. Additionally, I have seen some 15-17" imac flowerpots online with 700MHz-1GHz processors for super cheap...I wonder if I would be better off just buying something like this that doesn't need any work.
Any help would be appreciated. I'm sort of in the dark here.
Thanks a ton! Oh, and if anyone has an old system they want to part with I'd be interested in talking too!
Thank you!
-mjk
After whacking the hd for probably the hundredth time on my emachines T3422 due to viruses and other such bugs, I am making the switch.
My brother gave me an older 800mhz G4 Powermac with which to start. It needs a little work, i.e. new dual drive, possibly new HD, some memory, etc. Here is my question...I'm currently running an Intel Celeron D 346 processor (3.06GHz clock speed, 256 KB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB). Obviously a 3.06GHz processor is substantially faster than an 800MHz processor, but I've been told that comparing a celeron to a powerpc processor is apples to oranges. How much of a noticable difference will this be for me? What might be a comparable processor speed? Now, to let you in on a little of what I expect from this machine? Not much. I surf the web, stream some video, update and store my itunes/ipods (none of which are over 8gb). I mean I'm not storing a massive library of music, or rendering video or anything...just a basic system. Additionally, I have seen some 15-17" imac flowerpots online with 700MHz-1GHz processors for super cheap...I wonder if I would be better off just buying something like this that doesn't need any work.
Any help would be appreciated. I'm sort of in the dark here.
Thanks a ton! Oh, and if anyone has an old system they want to part with I'd be interested in talking too!
Thank you!
-mjk