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<blockquote data-quote="spaceman uk" data-source="post: 52470">HiI've been using a mac for years. At work I have a beauty - a spanking new G5. At home I use a pc (yack) and an imac. The imac is one of the early tray loading ones (233mhz) with a tiny 2gig drive. Amazingly I still use this to do my freelance work at home (I'm a designer - use photoshop, illustrator, quark, dreamweaver and flash to name a few). I'm getting to notice how slow it is now, especially compared to the G5 I use at work. I've got a load of heavy photoshop freelance work to do soon and I know my imac just won't take it, so I'm looking at getting a second hand G4, but I'm on a budget as I've just blown a load of cash on photography equipment.Someone has offered me a G4 with this spec for £450: G4 450mhz2 x 80 GB hard drivesDVD Burner (a pioneer 106)Zip 100mb1 gb RAMRAGE 128 gfx cardpro keyboard and pro mouse.Dual boot - panther and os 9.2I'd like your opinions on if you think it'd be worth it and how would I go about finding out if the processor is upgradable, as the owner wasn't sure.Thanks!Spaceman</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spaceman uk, post: 52470"] Hi I've been using a mac for years. At work I have a beauty - a spanking new G5. At home I use a pc (yack) and an imac. The imac is one of the early tray loading ones (233mhz) with a tiny 2gig drive. Amazingly I still use this to do my freelance work at home (I'm a designer - use photoshop, illustrator, quark, dreamweaver and flash to name a few). I'm getting to notice how slow it is now, especially compared to the G5 I use at work. I've got a load of heavy photoshop freelance work to do soon and I know my imac just won't take it, so I'm looking at getting a second hand G4, but I'm on a budget as I've just blown a load of cash on photography equipment. Someone has offered me a G4 with this spec for £450: G4 450mhz 2 x 80 GB hard drives DVD Burner (a pioneer 106) Zip 100mb 1 gb RAM RAGE 128 gfx card pro keyboard and pro mouse. Dual boot - panther and os 9.2 I'd like your opinions on if you think it'd be worth it and how would I go about finding out if the processor is upgradable, as the owner wasn't sure. Thanks! Spaceman [/QUOTE]

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