To upgrade or replace...... PLEASE HELP!!

I need to know if I should upgrade my computer or just replace it. It is extremely slow and has no hard drive space left really. I did get a second hard drive but I can't install my hardware on it. I just use if for saving photographs. I do allot of photography on my computer and currently have photoshop 7.0, a film scanner, cd burner, epson printer, web cam and a digital camera driver all installed on my computer. All of those external devices are USB. I would also like to get a flatbed scanner. I only have 5.31 gb of free space on my hard drive. It has become excessively slow and now my printer utility isn't showing up in my dock when i try to print. I have old jobs locked in there that I can't get rid of. I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times to no avail. I also can't put any new wallpaper up because that function unexpectedly quits. So basically I need a new CPU, hard drive, monitor, i need to totally reinstall all of my hardware and software, reinstall my operating system and i'm sure lots of other things so what i'm wondering if it would be more cost effective to just replace it.

You could just get a bigger boot drive, or an external hard drive. It looks like you have an early AGP or Yikes G4, but there are a few things you can do. Unless you really want to get a new machine there are a few options for upgrades. As I noted before, bigger hard drive, only 12GB... wow thats small. Stick a 120GB drive in there, it should slove your problem fast. You can also get CPU upgrades to bump the speed. Yikes (PCI only) G4s have max upgrades of 1.1Ghz, while AGP modles can go up to(based on your machines specs it can only take single CPU upgrades)a 1.8Ghz G4.

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