[latinfunboy]

I need to know what you all think would be best out of an option of either getting an old G4 Mac Tower or a mac mini.

Im going overseas and Im looking at either getting a 2nd hand Mac Mini or an old g4 quicksilver which is being offered to me at my destination of travel. Although the G4 would be older, the one i have my eye on has more hard disk space and comes with a screen, keyboard, mouse. The Mac mini on the other hand comes by itself. The other thing that I'm concerned about the mac mini is the different voltage factor between sydney and madrid. Does anyone know if this will affect my use of an aussie mac mini in europe?

Mainly wanting to use it for basic final cut, garageband, cubase, and some photoshop as well as normal everyday computer use (itunes, watchin dvd's, internet, etc). So out of the two which would you go for?

The specs are:

Mac Mini G4 1.42GHz
SuperDrive,
1GB ram,
80GB HD

OR

G4 867 MHZ 'Quicksilver'
1.5 Gig ram
Superdrive
120 Gig Hard drive

Thanks guys!

[CheesePuff]

Well if you will be using Final Cut and editing video, a 7200 RPM hard drive is a must for speed and the Mac mini uses a 5400 RPM. So unless you want to spend an additional ~$175 on a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive, I would go with the Quicksilver tower. Plus you can spend $300 and get a 1.5 GHz G4 upgrade with L3 cache for it, upgrade the video card, put in a faster opitcal drive, etc.

[iREZ]

id go with the mac mini and run it off an external firewire drive. i had an 867 at work and they're noticeably slower than the mac mini 1.42 at almost everything. it has a faster frontside bus, better gpu, and is tons quieter...not to mention a 4x superdrive (reads/writes both + and - dvds) vs 1x superdrive (which only reads/writes dvd - ). then again youre getting a monitor and keyboard with the tower, so if money is tight id go with that..but if you could spring for an external hd, monitor and keyboard go with the mini. by the way, i have an apple keyboard and mighty mouse for sale in the marketplace forum, hit me up with a pm and maybe ill chop the price down a bit.

[Lateralus]

The 867.

It's not gonna be a whole lot slower than the Mini as-is, and then there's the potential for processor upgrades. Plus it's a complete system.