This is what i would say,
I'v wanted to respond to this thread many times, but I wanted to gather my thoughts first.
Even in Single cpu 733mhz Quick silver is a very powerful machine, My friend told me when he first got his 1.25 G4 mac mini, when rendering audio the Mac mini was just a hair faster then his 733 Quicksilver, Witch disappointed him greatly. I ended up over clocking that mini to 1.58 for him, witch greatly increased his render times. but anyways.
I suggest:
The QuickSilver Powermac, I was extremely impressed with the Dual 800mhz quicksilver when i had one, it was so sickening fast.
I remember it installed tiger in like 5 minutes. The other machines took 10 to 15 minutes.
Or the:
MDD Powermac, Just make sure you stay away from firewire 800, if its a MDD and it has firewire 400 then you are good to go!
Then you can have the best of all the (native booting) worlds. You can still smack pretty nice video cards in those as well… and they are right now at the lowest price they are ever going to be, couple years from now, I think the collector value/price on those is going to go up!
However for space-
Energy consumption-
The best you can really get , that still will boot MacOS 9 natively is: /w a USB 2.0 Card Bus.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.0.html
I'v wanted to respond to this thread many times, but I wanted to gather my thoughts first.
Even in Single cpu 733mhz Quick silver is a very powerful machine, My friend told me when he first got his 1.25 G4 mac mini, when rendering audio the Mac mini was just a hair faster then his 733 Quicksilver, Witch disappointed him greatly. I ended up over clocking that mini to 1.58 for him, witch greatly increased his render times. but anyways.
I suggest:
The QuickSilver Powermac, I was extremely impressed with the Dual 800mhz quicksilver when i had one, it was so sickening fast.
I remember it installed tiger in like 5 minutes. The other machines took 10 to 15 minutes.
Or the:
MDD Powermac, Just make sure you stay away from firewire 800, if its a MDD and it has firewire 400 then you are good to go!
Then you can have the best of all the (native booting) worlds. You can still smack pretty nice video cards in those as well… and they are right now at the lowest price they are ever going to be, couple years from now, I think the collector value/price on those is going to go up!
However for space-
Energy consumption-
The best you can really get , that still will boot MacOS 9 natively is: /w a USB 2.0 Card Bus.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.0.html