Power Mac G4 933, a few questions

hello everyone, i'm new around here, and this is my first post!
i just bought a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 993 Mhz with 1.5GBs of RAM, 80GB HDD and ATI Radeon 7500 32MB AGP graphics adapter. Since it is my first Mac computer i have a lot of questions to ask.
My intention is to completely switch from Windows based computers to Mac and this is a good start i believe - not to mention that i bought this little guy for 75 euros (about 100 US dollars) - which is great! right?
Since i haven't received it yet, i'm eager to know if the graphics card is gonna support my 1080p LG wide screen monitor? just to point out, i do not expect it to be able to play any kind of HD video material, i just want it to support the native resolution of my display.
Secondly, i'm kind of getting into music recording/production business and i wanna know if i'll be able to use it along with M-Audio Fast Track external sound card and M-Audio Studiphile AV40 speakers? how are guitar rig, garage band, logic and pro tools... running on these kind of computers?
the guy i bought it from said that it has Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) installed, so i'm sort of confused - is it possible for a 2002 machine to run a 2009 operating system? i know it's supported, but again... it sounds too good to be true!
enough questions for now. i would appreciate any kind of comment or a friendly tip for for your new Mac fellow!
and yeah, i hope my English was clear enough, concerning the fact that i'm not a native speaker!
thanks again,
spitfire

From my experience with the 7500 in Leopard, the ability to run applications and support Leopards graphical needs is very limited.
The primary strike against the 7500 is the lack of OpenGL 2.0 support, which is needed for Leopard and many Leopard compatible apps.
http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Page%201%3A%20OpenGL%20.html
If you look in some of the other benchmark pages associated with the one linked above, you'll see in some of my results the lack of the Radeon 7500 figures.
This is because the 7500 wouldn't run the monitor or support the application.
With the QS and Leopard, and even with Tiger, one will have a much nicer experience if one upgrades the graphics card to at least a Radeon 9800 Pro.
Leopard will look and perform better, as will all graphic and video intensive apps.
Monitor support is also much improved.
Any of the cards from the Radeon 9800 Pro and stronger can be considered:
http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Blog/4B4B7BA2-7ABB-47F1-87AC-B03D379 42BEE.html

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