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Re:Advice on new Mac - 2007/12/10 21:30 Good choice for an upgrade.

I have a Quicksilver 867MHz G4 and it runs Leopard pretty well with enough RAM. The QS is a very good Mac and even without an upgrade you should be able to get a couple of years use out of it. I also went from a Smurf 450 to the QS G4 and it's so much better at running the later versions of OS X.

A video card upgrade would make Leopard smoother and may add Core Image support but it'a not necessary. I upgraded mine with a 64MB GeForce card from a later MDD G4 (no core image support) and it works good enough for me. You could easily spend a couple hundred dollars on a video card but even if your QS has a 32MB video card you can get by. A faster video card will make Leopard feel snappier though.

I have CS2 on my QS 867 and it runs fine. I've never tried CS3 so I don't know if the installer will work on less than a 1000MHz Mac but it probably will. If you can get by with CS2 I would suggest running it instead of CS3, especially for production work. You may do a lot of waiting using CS3 but you may as well rty it anyway.

I don't know what to tell you on the Smurf other than doing a fresh install of the OS and remove any third party PCI cards and see if it helps. It's a good Mac to keep around for back-up if needed since it's not really worth much.

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2007/12/06 22:55

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