New G4 133ghz Owner - newbie questions?

Hi,
A kind friend of mine has given me a Powerbook G4 17" 133Ghz.
I have been a PC user through and through and do a lot of photography using Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom 2.
Now that I have this Mac I am just wondering whether it will be worth upgrading the RAM (currently 512Mb) and using it for all of my photography over my 2 year old Sony Vaio?
I appreciate that a lot of you are Mac fans but would be good to get some honest advice.
Many thanks
Kind regards
Alex

Hi Alex,
I was gifted with a circa 2003 "worn out" (original owner's wording) 17" G4 PowerBook 1G with 1G RAM this year and, with a fresh install of Tiger, find it to be very capable as far as the milder apps go. It's probably slow for the pro apps, but yours has a huge speed advantage over mine.
The biggest limitation I find so far is a 60G had drive; yours is likely larger. My "gift horse" is mostly used as the downstairs reference computer, getting internet from our Airport Extreme upstairs. I bought our first notebook, a MacBook Pro, for travel only six weeks before a friend said he was giving me the PB17. Last week-long car trip we took, both notebooks went along and my wife and I sat side-by-side in the hotel room surfing our web forums--she on gourmet cooking forums with the MBP and me on the Apple Discussions with the PB. Very little difference in surfing.
My PB17 has a few deficits accrued from a hard life as a road warrior. The main battery will only run about an hour, the trackpad is worn (actually dented in slightly) in a spot from hard use, and the little rubber feet are all off the bottom case. However, with a power adaptor, an external mouse and stick=onrubber bumpers from the hardware store, it soldiers on!
You did fine. I'm sure you will enjoy it.
Allan

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to your favorite learning tools so that I can dig in and learn.
I bought the books you recommended (adding to my own Library
of Congress).
Thanks again!

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