I am buying a G4 400mhz powerbook with 768mb Of RAM. It will be running itunes at thats about it. How well will it run it? The slowest machine i have ever used is 600mhz G3. So I have not idea how well it runs.
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How well will it run
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Almost any mac can run itunes. The processor is slow, but as i understand it, itunes is not a processor intensive application. It should run fine.
It will be one of these: http://www.macmod.com/content/view/210/2/ 
How does your G3 run? As it will probably be comparable to it, since its a G4 and has way more RAM.
How does your G3 run? As it will probably be comparable to it, since its a G4 and has way more RAM.
I rarely use my G3, because it is in desperate need of RAM, and i am too cheap to spend that much on an obselete computer. It runs quite well, but having software update and one or two safari pages open pretty much maxes out my RAM. I just wish i could find something useful for it to do.
Its a powerbook G4.dmw007 said:That machine will be fine for playing iTunes. It will be faster than your iBook G3 trainguy77.
The performance of iTunes on my G3 450 MHz iMac has never been a problem. The computer came with 64 MB of RAM ... I added another 256 back in 2000 at time of purchase bringing the total to 320. The 256 module subsequently died one year ago and iTunes still is fine with only 64 MB of functioning memory. I use 250 MB of available hard disk space as virtual memory to help offset the loss of the real thing.
eXan said:I think he ment G3 600 MHz you mentioned in the original post.
Yes, that is what I was referring to.