Mac Addicts / Discuss

Vintage Emulsion says:

Hi. Im having an equipment overhaul over the next few months. Im replacing the Fujitsu Lifebook with an Asus EEEPC (The 7 inch one, 4G, Linux obviously) and Im thinking of replacing my fairly recently acquired (for £5!) Powermac G3 Blue&White. Also, the old Casio CTK synth is getting replaced by a Novation XioSynth 49 or 25.

The G3 is running OS8.5, and is a bit useless really. I was thinking of getting OSX for it (but the apple store refused to sell me jaguar) and some ram to run OSX (a bit pointless as I dont have discs) and a flat screen (the crt means my already cramped desk is now some kind of elaborate monitor stand) so ive decided I may have to get rid.

A certain eMac has caught my eye. Its a revision 2 with an 800mhz G4, 640MB ram, 40GB hd, Airport Wireless card, OSX Panther, original keyboard and mouse and a 3 month warranty. Its £135, or £99 without the airport card (but I doubt I can find a mac compatible wireless USB dongle for less than £35.

Is this any good for a new main mac, or even main machine to complement my EEE for next few years?

Id mainly be doing light video editing, heavy photo editing and web design. And college/uni work too (programming, writing etc...). Also, music recording (I have DSP Quatrro and Muzys which work on macs, so Im sorted with the software int hat department. And I may buy a copy of iLife for Garageband.)

Any advice on the Mac front? I respect the advice of the members here, and I know many are experienced Apple users.

Thanks in advance.

-Ash
Posted at 9:07AM, 19 May 2008 PDT ( permalink )