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cpu upgrade or something SUPER cheap to run Garage band for my son for school.

currently have a G4 (agp) with 450mhz PPC. more than a couple of tracks and the 450mhz ppc cant cope.

ive heard it is possible to swap the CPU card with a much faster version ? 1ghz +??

anything has to be really cheap to run OSX with Garageband,
 
I think the highest you can go is 1.1ghz with 1mb l2 cache


I think the upgrade was called a power force g4

Try googling that and see what comes up

Hope it helps :)
 
done a bit of searching and wow those things are expensive. 1.4ghz seems to be the best as i need i believe 100mhz bus version.

does anyone have mac mini or somthing like that uber cheap, all i need to run is garageband without running out of cpu. even an imac all in one cheap.

quick question i see the average price for PPC mac mini is only i bit cheaper than Intel core 2 duo mac mini.

a 1.8ghz core 2 duo vs 1.4ghz PPC single. how much faster is intel if at all ??

thanks.
 
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I'm not sure the architecture would matter given the core2duo effectively has 2 1.8GHz processors.

I'd expect the MAC to be more expensive than it performs at an Intel equivalent too, for the simple fact that its a MAC and a rarer processor.
 
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