Thanks for the help, Kappy. This is an item on eBay and the original software disks from the third party software, of which Photoshop is of particular interest, are not included. It's interesting to hear of their limited value as the sellers, and apparently most buyers on eBay seem to think otherwise. What are the limitations other than being unable to reinstall after a complete meltdown? How often does that happen? Someone has said that Adobe isn't much help anyway in terms of direct support help anyway.
This particular machine will be for my wife who uses Photoshop for her graphics work but is not really a power user, per se, and won't be running any games on this. She is not editing movies or counting the seconds of processing speed. I don't think she'd notice the difference between a 2gz and 2.8ghz processor running at whatever bus speed. i just want to make sure these things have been holding up for at least a couple of years. She's been working so far on a 17" 800mhz imac, the pod type, that has been acting slowly lately so we it's time to upgrade before it's too late.
Thanks again for the help,
Michael (in Pt.Townsend, WA, BTW)
