Oh! You are a gamer! Now why did I not think of that? You NEED speed and you need RAM and ... well, you need a G4 or 5. About affordability: You NEED badly to afford it. You can get good money for your RAM and stuff and with that and the money you were prepared to put in to upgrade your present system it would be better than putting in yet more money into our old trusty type machines. And, this figure of 800-900? US$? [Where is "here" apart from the center of the universe :)] I see G4s on ebay much cheaper...
Having a lot of money invested in something may not be the best reason to upgrade. Anyway, best of luck ... > From: Norad Ninja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Upgrade question > > On Sunday, November 2, 2003, at 04:29 PM, David Elmo wrote: ...I'd say though > to save your pennies for a machine with a bigger bus like a true G4 (even a > 350 or 400 MHz G4 would be likely be faster in practice than yours with a > faster processor. IMHO and all that... > >> david elmo >> > Heh. I am a Mac gamer. And I use Lightwave to design Quake levels. I NEED the > speed, I'm usually running Lightwave, Photoshop, Safari, iTunes, iChat, Mail, > and an emulator for playing GBA games all at once...I have a four monitor > setup for this reason. Unfortunately, I cannot afford a newer computer; the > lowest I would buy is a dual 450G4 AGP, they go for around 800-900 here, and > to me that is not cost effective considering for not much more than that I > could buy a 1GHz eMac or a bit more for a 1.6GHz G5. Also, I have a LOT of > money invested in this system (20GB HDD, 12GB LVD2 RAID, 1GB RAM, Radeon > 64MB, 2x Radeon 32MB) , and I do not wish to part with it until I can replace > it with a G5, probably not until the rev 2 units are released. > > -Josh -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
