choices: G4-733 or G4-450 or G3-400

Hey guys.

I'm a music student and I'm looking into a Macintosh to run alongside my PC for a better computing experience (yay OS X)

I have some choices of used macs in my area...

G4 PowerMac QuickSilver 733MHz/256m/40g/cdrw/ati agp ($600Canadian)

or

G4 Powermac
256m, 20g hd, dvd player, zip, 16m ati agp ($400CAD)

or

Rev.2 Blue and White G3 400. Lots of Ram and disk space. All boxed with manuals! RADEON 7000 video card installed with Quartz Extreme Hack running!

448mb Ram (1x256,3x64), twin harddrives totalling 28Gb, built-in zip drive & original OEM 32x CD-ROM. Running OS 10.2.8 Jaguar (original disks included). Original Blue & White keyboard and hockey-puck mouse included. ($275CAD)


(sorry -- I copied the descriptions from their posts)

What are the advantages of these machines? Are there any prices that are an absolute steal?(Keeing in mind that they're in Canadian dollars).

Thanks guys!
-->James

The Quicksilver would probably be my choice of those you listed. It's definitely the most powerful, and has the most hard drive space. With an inexpensive RAM upgrade (I'd probably buy a 512 MB stick for it), it should perform rather well, and the price seems pretty good.

Of course, you could also consider a brand new mini for slightly more than the Quicksilver (Canadian pricing starts at $629 without the Education discount), and it would be considerably more powerful and would also include a warranty.

Hey, thats a point. Minis are great, and suprisingly fast too.

Is the displays included in those prices ? Personally I'd go with the newest of the bunch, how tight is the money though? Amazing that those machines haven't had the memory upgraded :shrug:. Please make that your priority if you do buy one of these.