G5 Second Hand Mac

[Alex*]

ok but i am really having trouble finding a cheap and by cheap i mean second hand £200-£250 macbook/ibook/g4/g5 plz has anyone got any links they can provide

[Toon]

Originally Posted by Cwilk

We have a beige G4 in our office (had it for 5 years) and it does fine with CS2. You just have to make sure your RAM is maxed out (1 or 2 GB) and the hard drive space is enough. That's where most people run into problems with the G4 and CS2. They get cheap on the hard drive and CS won't run well because it really needs more room to breath. I've had CS2 running on our G4 since last summer and haven't had any problems at all.

It depends how much you're doing at once, my G5 has 2 gig memory but once I've jumped from go-live to illy to photoshop to in-design to imageready to forms expert to flash to ftp cyberduck to running 8 different browsers to word to mail to quark to adobe reader then added 20 or 30 fonts even my G5 can slow and them things are built to handle that amount of work load.

If all you want is PS, illy and dreamweaver then a G4 or even one of those mini macs will be fine for you, just remember legal software is expensive as well, it's not like copying windows programmes from a pal.

My friend bought a mini mac and I was surprised how nifty they are for home computers but he only used it for browsing the web and burning films and music.

If a macs what you want, no need to aim too high you have to be patient.

[Alex*]

but how good are those mac minis? and i also need to buy a mouse and keyboard and a monitor

[Toon]

Have a read....

Mini Mac Reviews

[Alex*]

http://us.secondhandmac.com/classifi...?mid=1188&s=us is that alright it is around £200 and has creative suite installed

[Toon]

Second hand Mac G5 for sale

powermac g5 1.6ghz £550 13/04/2007
512mdddr ram, osx 10.3.9. with a 20" apple cinema display good condition and no faults. small scratches on bass and screen but nothing noticable unless get very close up. hyde2002@msn.com

Some good ones here http://www.macbooty.com/

[Alex*]

the thing is the price its good but my mum and dad won't spend that much

[Toon]

700MHz PowerPC G4
Fantastic compact design, no unsightly "tower" as all the workings are within the sleek white monitor. Great for halls of residence or other small rooms.

Includes:
* 38.16GB Hard Drive
* 256MB SDRAM (upgradeable to 1GB)
* Apple Keyboard
* Apple Mouse
* Mac OSX 10.3.9 Panther is currently installed as the operating system (have lost 10.3.9 disc, but still have original install discs for OS 10.1.4 & OSX 9)
* Install disc for all eMac applications & Software Restore discs

Programmes currently installed include...
* Adobe Ilustrator 10
* Adobe In Design 2
* Adobe Photoshop 7
* Microsoft Office X
* Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
* Macromedia Flash MX
* Macromedia Freehand 10

This has software installed

[Cwilk]

Here's the layout we have of our G4 (except I believe we have the RAM at over a GIG):

http://www.teksale.com/computers/ref...shed-02207.htm

Now for the Mac Mini's....I hear they're very good and compact at that. Might be the way to go. Except it may cost more than a refurb after you add your monitor and keyboard to the CPU.

[Alex*]

love it and but obviously the lost 10.3.9 disk but my dad has a tiger install disk that came with his mac so not much of a problem but i would like to see side views coz i don't want it to be a big monitor i'd like it the be streamline and also it only has 256 ram way too small amount and can;t afford to buy more ram