You might want to wait until OS X/Leopard comes out in October, I believe, rather than buy the current OS X/Tiger.
My current computer is a toshiba sattelite laptop, 2.4 ghz 496mb or ram, and a 60gb hardrive, Windows is ok, I've just been working with it for years, and would like to start working with macs. My fiance just upgraded to a macbook and has given me her 12" powerbook g4 867mhz. Its in good shape, the hard drive is starting to fail, but other than that all is well. My question is, is it worth it to upgrade the PB, and by upgrade, i mean adding a new 100gb 7200rpm HD, 1gb of ram, and putting tiger OS on. The whole thing will probably cost about 340.00. I will be using the computer for daily internet browsing, checking email, and I have an isight camera that i will be using with ichat. I guess I want to know if it will perform near the same speeds as my current laptop, the things that worry me are that the processor is only 867mhz, and whether or not it will be fast enough to handle tiger without me having to stair at that beachball everytime I want to do something. Thanks in advance for the advice.

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