12-18-2009, 03:08 PM
The jump in performance from 384mb to 1.2gb of RAM will be nice, but I think it'll be costly ($100?) since that RAM is hard to find.
I wouldn't sink $100 into an almost 10 year old machine that could die any day. While the DVD drive won't be expensive, upgrading the DVD on a g4 mac is fairly involved. Maybe you can find an external firewire drive.
If the computer is sufficient for what your parents need, I probably wouldn't do anything with it other than make sure it has the latest version of Tiger and you have everything turned off that can affect performance.
Keep in mind that a 20" C2D imac w/DVD burner, 160gb HD will probably do what your parents want for another 5+ years and those run around $300 used. RAM for those is much cheaper.
I wouldn't sink $100 into an almost 10 year old machine that could die any day. While the DVD drive won't be expensive, upgrading the DVD on a g4 mac is fairly involved. Maybe you can find an external firewire drive.
If the computer is sufficient for what your parents need, I probably wouldn't do anything with it other than make sure it has the latest version of Tiger and you have everything turned off that can affect performance.
Keep in mind that a 20" C2D imac w/DVD burner, 160gb HD will probably do what your parents want for another 5+ years and those run around $300 used. RAM for those is much cheaper.