i recommend skip G4 tower series... and hunt for G5... You may exchange your E700 with a AGP G4 and find a upgrade sonnet card too... Mighter than 1000 Mhz and adding cheap Rams will give you good machine... But as i said i would skip all of it and find a base budget G5, if you have budget for LCD screen. With G5 you have a widen graphic card support and ram support with perfect case... You do not need very fast cpu's... So heat and noice wont be problem. With faster G4 processors noice and heat increasing. I would recomment a G5 arround 1.8n Mhz... Base machine for your needs. 2 GB ram... It will include good DVD recorder that better than most budget G4s and better graphic card and upgrade options with perfect physical condition.
2009/1/6 Sam Macomber <s...@macomber.com>: > > On Jan 5, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Sam Macomber wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Mel wrote: > > snip > > If I did a lot of writing, an older mac is the best. WriteNow and a > powerbook 180(best screen of the 1xx series IMO) spin down the HDD and type > away! > I'm looking to upgrade my self. current is an eMac 700 which is great for > most usage surfing, email, quicken, and what have you. It gets a bit > sluggish when my wife is doing the bills(quicken and web going at the same > time), playing music as she does it, while I watch a video off it streaming > to the AppleTV. It gets just a smidge unhappy. Plus, USB 1.1 and the > small screen with a slow refresh, killing my eyeballs... > We've been taking about getting a new computer for a while as we just want > one computer in the house... right now I'm debating between dredging up > the leftover parts at work to build a G4 tower and get a 1.8GHz processor > upgrade, USB2 card, some new big HDDs(pair of 500s should do it) nice 24" > screen. we'd be hitting around $800, it'd be better than what we've got, > but still several generations old. Or we get a new iMac $1500ish is a > bit of a pill to swallow, but we got 6 years out of our emac and I see no > reason why a new iMac would be any different.. Tough one... > > on the BTW, I drive a 1985 VW Quantum wagon in the winter, come summer I > drive a 1974 VW Karmann Ghia convertible, well on sunny days, so > 500-1000mi/yr... wife has a 2003 VW Passat wagon, got kids, need a safe > reliable car :) I also have a 1985 Renault Fuego, mint condition and very > reliable. Selling that one though I can't bring my self to use it as a > winter car (not a speck of rust on it) and I prefer my Ghia in the summer > :) Oh and my wife hates it heh! > Mel, yup those IIci are the best, as i recall you bought most of mine from > me some years back. I still have one tucked away with my old plus and all > the parts and software i need for it, got a daystar turbo 601/66 in it. > -sam > > If you have access to a 24 in screen, then I take a look at the mini's > lottsa powere-itty bitty box. > > that's just it, I don't have a screen I'd be buying one if I went with the > G4 tower. > > > -- Baha Ata --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
