CS4 on PowerPC (non-intel) macs

I'm still hanging on to a G5 that's serving me well, but I need to make the jump from CS2 to CS4. Al though I will obviously upgrade the machine sooner rather than later, are there any serious drawbacks to running CS4 on a PowerPC machine?

Nick,
CS4 runs very, very well even on my officially not-supported G4, even the OpenGL features.
Dual bootable, DP MDD 1.25GHz G4 (2004), maxed out at 2GB of RAM, both Spotlight and Dashboard disabled, Photoshop primary scratch disk on dedicated 160GB internal drive, at least 100GB available on each of the four internal drives, up to 300GB on some. Counting external FW drives just over 1TB of drive space available. nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB "mutant" flashed graphics display card. Processor napping enabled through CHUD 3.5.2. Photoshop 11.0.1, Tiger 10.4.11.

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The story has now changed somewhat. Copied from your original post in this thread.
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... about $300... I have a iMac G5 Isight ... iMovie 08 and Leopard. What ... camcorder ...?
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>I have Dreamweaver CS3 running on a dual 1.8 Power Mac
with 1.5 gigs of
>RAM,
> and I think it's a dog. It's so much slower at
everything than DW8 that I
> find
> it impractical for daily use?especially for managing a
remote site via
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> seems to work much faster and reliably for my colleagues
on Windows XP on
> newish PCs, however, I'm wondering if what I need is a
new Intel Mac. If
> anyone
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system, I would
> like to
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