I am currently living outside of the US and had set up my Father with a G4 Tower 500mhz dual processor machine that he has been using trouble free for several years now. He contacted me the other day saying that the machine does not power on at all. I walked him through several steps and I believe that the power supply has given out. I have found another used machine just like his that I could get for him within his area for much less than it would cost to buy and replace the power supply on this machine, and was planning to have him get this machine and have his computer guy swap out his hard drive into the used machine to get him up and running quickly. While looking at used machines, I also found a 1.25ghz Dual Processor G4 MDD machine for a bit more money and was thinking that this would be a much faster machine for him. If we just swap out his HD from the now dead 500mhz DP (running OS 10.4.11), will it work ok in this 1.25ghz DP model without having to do anything else? My limited experience with these machines tells me it would, but I would prefer an expert opinion before I send him out to buy a used machine with the hopes of quickly getting him back up and running. He lives in a small town in AZ and his computer guy is PC only and will not be of much help with a Mac, so I will have to help out with the HD changes which I am sure he will have no problem doing, but if programming is involved we may all be out of luck. Thanks to all for any help given! Tom
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