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astralkoala:
much like vincent i am looking to move to mac for video and photo editing in OSX (my school has a volume licensed final cut pro i will use for cinema/DV class).  i would like a g4 if possible, but do not want to spend over 1000 dollars.  i read that pc monitors are compatible, so i can just use my current display.  what about hard drives or disk drives?  i also saved money by building my own pc.  as everything in the apple store is a bit expensive, is there any way to buy cheap mac parts and create my own?  how certain configurations compare to my current PC (AMD T-bird 900 Mhz).  Thanks, Ranolph

choasforages:
well, now that the emac is availble to everyone, it should not be fudging your budget too much, o and unfortuanly macs arn't as common as x86 garbage, so you would be hard pressed to find enough parts (of the correct type it is possible though), but you can try ebay, if you wanted to do this the hard way, pick up an old 9500, put a voodoo 3 card in it, max out the ram, slip a g4 upgrade card in it, and i wouldn't know how much it would cost, couldn't be too much though, o if i am wrong, would some mac hacker correct this stance

Heru:
An Emac should do the job perfectly.  they cost a little more than you wanted to spend, however, at $1099 dollars to start.  They have a built in monitor, and have a G4 processor.
And PC hardware is compatible, mice, keyboards, harddrives, ram, video cards, etc.  Epson printers tend to work the best just so you know in case you want a printer.

ravuya:
I highly recommend the eMac - it also has L3 cache unlike the current rev of the iMac. Cheap, affordable, built-in display. Just what you need.

If you wanted to build your own mac, you're a few years late. UMAX used to let you buy parts and then assemble the box yourself.

psyjax:
Actually a hacked up and tricked out 9500 isn't a bad way to go.

I hear such machines are still widely used in the industry.

A good thing for video Editing that you may want to consider, is buying an old tower with SCSI support. That way you can have a SCSI harddrive which is ideal for video due to higher thruput and lower fragmentation.

Video Editing relies less on CPU than it does on your HD, RAM, and video card. There are Quadras out there, totaly hacked up, that still work with premere and other such software.

Just something to consider.

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