[mike322]

hi all powermac owners my names mike and im sorta a new person too mac osX im planning on gettin a macbook around X-mas and im in need of mac osx seriously my dad is loving is life with a imac g5 with bult in isight 20 inch 2.1 ghz he never lets me on it for more then 5 minutes and everytime i get a chance i go straight for ilife ima sad kid who needs mac osx i cant wait till X-mas so i was talking to my dad and asked him if he could buy me a old powermac till then he said yea but it cant top 400 so im thiking to my self g3 is wayyy outdated and im gonna need something that can handle photoshop cs or cs2 im always on photoshop on my PC so i went on to the powermac G4 section on ebay and found this one http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-G4-500-Dua...QQcmdZViewItem
i jstu hope it isnt too badd and i wanna know if i shold buy the old cr@p or just wait my ass till X-mas or until my dad feels like buying me a damn macbook

[harrisjamieh]

Firstly - welcome

secondly - please try to put some grammar into your post - there is not one full stop, its incredibly hard to read!!

thirdly - your signiture is waaaay too long - 4 lines max

fourthly - in your sig you say soon to be, then macbook pro white - you mean MacBook white (MacBook Pros are silver in colour)


Anyway, that machine doesn't sound too bad - its a dual, which is obviously going to help things along. Photoshop CS shouldn't be too shabby, since that machine was on sale at a similar time to when CS was out. Just so long as you're not doing very heavy PS work (or if you are, that you have a lot of patience). If its only a 'tide-over until..' machine, then it should be fine for you needs, and it'll get you familiar with OS X

[mike322]

sorry im so used to talking on aim and im only 15 man im not gonna have PERFECT grammar maybe it will improve when i have mac OSX lol...ill be sure to edit my sig right now nobody wants to know about the stupid pc's i own lol well thx for the info im planning on gettin the dual 500 mhz with 512mb ram..maybe ill talk my dad into buying me some more ram and a bigger HD for the future....well if anyone has suggestions please reply thx..

[harrisjamieh]

Originally Posted by mike322

im only 15 man im not gonna have PERFECT grammar

I'm only 16... , and I didn't say you have ot have perfect grammar... just a full stop, or even a comma here or there will make your posts easier to read. If people find your posts hard to read, there is less chance they will read it, and less chance you will get the help you need.

[chris v]

1. The Dual 500 is one of the most solid, dependable, well-designed Macs ever made. It still has plenty enough power, and probably a few years of service left in it.

2. You'll want more RAM.

3. this isnt aim lol

[imitchellg5]

Welcome to the forums.I am 15 too, the Dual 500 is a great machine, my uncle still has one that he uses almost everyday ( He has a Quicksilver too). You will need more RAM.

[mike322]

yea i know this isnt aim lol, yea i kinda thought i would need at least 1gb to operate osx at a good speed and handle photoshop, whats the max amount of ram this thing can handle?

[imitchellg5]

2 gigs o' RAM.

[Gossamer]

Even after you get your notebook the G4 will make a great file server/desktop machine. If you don't have to pay for it, I say do it

[Googer-Giger]

Originally Posted by mike322

hi all powermac owners my names mike and im sorta a new person too mac osX im planning on gettin a macbook around X-mas and im in need of mac osx seriously my dad is loving is life with a imac g5 with bult in isight 20 inch 2.1 ghz he never lets me on it for more then 5 minutes and everytime i get a chance i go straight for ilife ima sad kid who needs mac osx i cant wait till X-mas so i was talking to my dad and asked him if he could buy me a old powermac till then he said yea but it cant top 400 so im thiking to my self g3 is wayyy outdated and im gonna need something that can handle photoshop cs or cs2 im always on photoshop on my PC so i went on to the powermac G4 section on ebay and found this one http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-G4-500-Dua...QQcmdZViewItem
i jstu hope it isnt too badd and i wanna know if i shold buy the old cr@p or just wait my ass till X-mas or until my dad feels like buying me a damn macbook

Welcome, I can relate, except the kid thing was a little longer ago, and I got the mac first, and I wouldn't let my dad on it for more than 5 minutes. A bit of advice though, I know the MacBook may look all pretty, but as you can see from the amount of negative threads for it, it has had many problems. Try starting out with a PowerBook, they are more reliable than MacBooks and it is a lot easier to get advice for them, because a lot more people have owned them.