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iMac, Mac Mini, or iBook?

Well nevermind, I've made up my mind. I'll just buy an older system which is still better than the crap I had. The Mini, plus the monitor etc, willcost well over $700 and I don't feel like paying my parents back. So here is what I wired my choices down to:

This iMac G4
Is 700mhz accompanied by 768mb ram good enough for Final Cut or iMovie? I'm using this for school.

Mac Mini Or this Mac mini, $419 altogether leaving me $131 to buy a mouse, keyboard and a monitor.

Or the iBook I can deal with the problems it has, and I can fix them.

So which would be the smartest to get?
 
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honestly, I would get a summer job and get 400$ more to get a macbook!
 
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I would say no to the iMac. I'm switching my wife to a new CoreDuo Intel iMac from that exact machine as I write this. It was getting WAY slow just running iTunes much less anything Graphics intensive.
 
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ShillAT said:
honestly, I would get a summer job and get 400$ more to get a macbook!

Theres only one place around here that will hire me, I've applied ever since I was 14 to get a job at Winne-Dixie yet they never answer, or they reject me. So I guess I have to wait till I'm 16 to get a job at Checkers or something.

But right now I am just going to buy an older Mac, I just want to make the switch. Save up again, then my the Macbook.
 
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Well, I'm looking on eBay. I'm gunna try seeing if I could find a decent PowerMac G4. Would a PowerMac G4 Be a good choice?

Any good?
 

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