For Photoshop, the G4 chip is of significant benefit.
G4 upgrade cards are expensive enuff that getting a discontinued G4
machine becomes more sensible.
However, if you will be satisfied w/ a G3 card, get a $200 XLR8 Carrier
Card/G3 400mHz combo deal from Other World Computing.
The discontinued G4 machines are in the $1200 range, and have a one year
warranty, from Apple.
Bottom Line: Photographer should have G4 Tower.
Joe wrote:
> I have a Power Macintosh 7300/200 with 112 ram and 2 gig hard drive. I use
>Photoshop and want to open large files (8x10 Photos at 300 dpi) sometimes 8 or 10 at
>a time sometimes more. I was thinking of upgrading my computer but a friend of mine
>who is into upgrading told me that because of the high cost of putting in a scsi type
>hard drive and the expensive cost of memory for this in relation to the low cost of
>new memory for the G3 or G4 and also that I would probably need a new G3 or G4 card,
>that I would probably be better off buying a new G4 probably the 733 since they have
>come out with a faster one and the price of the G4 733 had dropped. Also since I am
>a photographer and just use photoshop and do not use any other programs such as Quark
>or Illustrator I might be able to get away with an IMac even though the monitor is
>smaller. The only thing about the IMac (he said) is that it does not have much room
>for upgrading. Does anybody have any comments on the above? Sh!
ould I upgrade and if so how? Or should I try to purchase a newer computer? And if so
which one? Thanks for your help.
>
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