Purchasing a used I-Book G4

I'm told that these machines will be obsolete in 6 mths to a year and won't be able to open certain websites and will be slow to surf the net & send e-mail. Please advise

John,
Thanks for your response. Actually I'm only a Mac user & can't stand PC's. We use high end Macs for all of our graphic art needs. We are in the printing industry & graphic design. The reason I asked the question is my wife wants to purchase a $500 new Dell laptop to use only for Word documents, sending e-mail & surfing the internet. A good friend of mine suggested I go to E-bay and buy her a used I-Book for $350 - $500. That's about all I really wanted to spend. I'd rather her have a couple of year old Mac than a brand new Dell any day. The problem is a person who does service for only Mac equipment in my area on companies with one Mac to 25 Macs & servers and everything else in between suggests I not purchase the "OLD" I-Book. He says that with the new "Java" scripts coming out that the I-Book would need to at least have a 1.0 GHZ processor and 1 gig of ram in order to run efficiently. In 6 - 12 mths she may have trouble opening some websites. He claims that by the time I buy the machine off e-bay and spend the money to upgrade the ram, the operating system maybe and who knows what else like a power cord, the money spent doesn't justify the item purchased. For a few hundred dollars more I can buy a refurb MacPro from Apple. Just looking for someone else's opinion!!!!

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