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Grazza
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I went along to a computer auction last Friday with the intention of buying a P4 PC to upgrade my aging P3. I bidded on a few but they were all going for a bit more than I was willing to pay. I was about to walk out when a heap of G3 iMacs came up and I was surprised to see that there wasn't much interest. I was even more surpised when I found myself bidding and winning nice little blue 500mhz job with 192mb ram/20gb HDD and OSX 10.2 for a measly $120 AUST (about $85US). The most surprising thing was that I'd never considered buying a Mac. I knew that they are the platform of choice for graphic designers, video editors etc. but I'd always thought that they were expensive and wouldn't improve my computing experience significantly. So anyway, I drove home thinking that I'll have a play with it and if it's no use to me then I'll just sell it off.
Well, five days later there is absolutely no chance of that happening. I'm hooked. For a 4-5 year old computer with relatively low specs it performs brilliantly. I know it's been said many times in this forum, but everything just seems to work the way it should. 'Installing' programs is a breeze, everything I've plugged into it has worked perfectly (and immediately), everything loads quickly, applications interact seemlessly, it's compact, quiet, funky, relatively portable etc etc. I was also surpised to learn that it takes a standard ide HDD and SD RAM (it now has 384mb, courtesy of the PC).
But it's the iLife stuff that's really sucked me in. iPhoto, iMovie and iTunes are all sensational (even though the versions I have are all from 2002). They leave the proprietry Microsoft equivalents for dead. I've just finished editing some video tonight and it was and was sooo much easier, smoother and more intuitive than doing it on my PC. iTunes has such a clean and simple interface and some geat features - once I've put a bigger hard drive in I'll move my mp3 collection over, hook it up to the stereo and use it as a 'jukebox'. iPhoto has everything I need in a photo organiser with some very useful editing features.
Anyway, apologies for rambling on, I'll get to my question. Whilst my machine obviously doesn't have a DVD burner, I was hoping that I could still use iDVD to create an iso image (this evidently can be done with a tweak) which I could transfer (via network) to my PC for burning. However I note that the minimum system requirements are well above my specs. Does this mean that it simply can't be installed on my machine or does it mean that it will just run slowly? Alternatively, can anyone suggest another DVD authoring program that will run okay on low end machine such as mine? I suspect I might be trying to push the limits of this machine. Perhaps I'll go back to those auctions and see if I can pick up a G4 .......
Cheers
Well, five days later there is absolutely no chance of that happening. I'm hooked. For a 4-5 year old computer with relatively low specs it performs brilliantly. I know it's been said many times in this forum, but everything just seems to work the way it should. 'Installing' programs is a breeze, everything I've plugged into it has worked perfectly (and immediately), everything loads quickly, applications interact seemlessly, it's compact, quiet, funky, relatively portable etc etc. I was also surpised to learn that it takes a standard ide HDD and SD RAM (it now has 384mb, courtesy of the PC).
But it's the iLife stuff that's really sucked me in. iPhoto, iMovie and iTunes are all sensational (even though the versions I have are all from 2002). They leave the proprietry Microsoft equivalents for dead. I've just finished editing some video tonight and it was and was sooo much easier, smoother and more intuitive than doing it on my PC. iTunes has such a clean and simple interface and some geat features - once I've put a bigger hard drive in I'll move my mp3 collection over, hook it up to the stereo and use it as a 'jukebox'. iPhoto has everything I need in a photo organiser with some very useful editing features.
Anyway, apologies for rambling on, I'll get to my question. Whilst my machine obviously doesn't have a DVD burner, I was hoping that I could still use iDVD to create an iso image (this evidently can be done with a tweak) which I could transfer (via network) to my PC for burning. However I note that the minimum system requirements are well above my specs. Does this mean that it simply can't be installed on my machine or does it mean that it will just run slowly? Alternatively, can anyone suggest another DVD authoring program that will run okay on low end machine such as mine? I suspect I might be trying to push the limits of this machine. Perhaps I'll go back to those auctions and see if I can pick up a G4 .......
Cheers
