Friends, I have two production machines here at Low End Mac headquarters - a dual 1 GHz Mirror Drive Door with 2 GB of RAM and a Rage 128 Pro video card running Tiger and a Digital Audio upgraded with 1.25 GB of RAM, a dual 1.6 GHz CPU, and Radeon 9000 Pro graphics (swapped from the MDD) running Leopard.
The Tiger machine is used primarily for Classic Mode (so I can use Claris Home Page), as well as Camino, TextWrangler, TextSoap, and sometimes Photoshop Elements 3, Firefox, and Safari. The Leopard machine is almost always running Camino, Firefox, Mail, NetNewsWire, TextSoap, TextWrangler, KompoZer, Photoshop Elements, and sometimes Safari, Bean, and rarely Microsoft Word. My thinking: Although the MDD has more RAM, the faster CPU and better video card make the Digital Audio the better choice for Leopard. I don't do anything that really taxes the graphics (no gaming), but I recently picked up a 22" Apple Cinema Display for a song. It's an ADC monitor, so I'm limited to Apple AGP video cards with ADC support. I'm looking for suggestions for a better video card that's also very affordable. This would also let me swap the Radeon 9000 back to the MDD. Thanks in advance! Dan Knight, LowEndMac.com -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
