OSX for iMac Power G3 400

I have a iMac Power G3 400 MHz currently running OS 9.2 with 1G of memory and a 40G hard drive. I would like to upgrade to OS 10.3.9 to mirror my PowerBook G4 laptop. Is this doable? I have been given conflicting advice.

Adobe product's are going to be really slow on OSX (especially the Creative Suite version's! You are not going to work with it really nice, a lot off waiting. Maybe big file's will even not open.
Photoshop CS2 will work, but Adobe Illustrator 10 can not even run on your iMac:
Minimum Adobe Illustrator 10 system requirement's:
PowerPC® G4 or G5 processor
Mac OS X v.10.2.8 (10.3.8 or higher recommended)
256MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
960MB of available hard-disk space
Color monitor with 16-bit video card
1,024x768 monitor resolution
CD-ROM drive
If you want to have a nice extra system, i would probably buy something like a G4 MacMini. Those are fast enough for your requirement's and quite cheap (used one's ofcours) for the performance you get.
Hopefully this is helpfull or solved your problem.
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