A local dealer has a 3 month old 867MHz dual with 1 giga of ram and 180 giga of hard disk. He says he can sell it and would be prepared to take in my 2 year old G4 400MHz in part exchange. Its been two days now and he hasn't given me a final price, so nothing has been decided yet.
Is there anything either good or bad that anybody can tell me about this model? I heard it was nicknamed the wind tunnel because of the amount of noise it makes. Would it be that much faster than my 400MHz in Photoshop? I currently start to cry when dealing on any file over a couple of hundred MB in OS X. The main reason I am considering this rather than a new one is because I understand the latest generation won't boot into OS 9 and even though I rarely use OS 9, I still think there are times when I'd like to be able to use the old system. The shop owner told me he is selling this for a customer who purchased it along with a couple of Titaniums and then decided to leave it for sale when he returned to Holland. Apparently he paid about �1200 including VAT in the U.K. with the extra specs. I have seen that the new 1000Mhz is selling for �1149 including VAT in standard form at the Apple Store, but notably uses faster Ram and has a 64MB video card rather than 32MB. How much of a price reduction should I expect considering its not new, even though its still got 9 months of guarantee? Also would I be right in assuming that the dual 867 MHz would be faster for Photoshop use than a single 1000 MHz? Another dealer told me to expect that the 1000MHz will be taken off the line up in about a week or two at most. Thanks in advance for any advice or insights. Cheers Ashley =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
