Upgrade advice needed

Hi,
I currently use logic express on an emac G4 with 1 gig Ram and only a 40gig harddrive.
I want to upgrade to logic pro and have a bit of money spare but I was wondering which would be the most cost efficient way to do it.
Do I:
1) Sell the emac (ebay?) and reinvest in an imac G5 with logic pro
2) Upgrade to logic pro and somehow improve the performance of the emac to cope with running it (external hard drive and things)
Any advice would be much appreciated.

Pete,
The answer depends on what you plan to do with Logic Pro that you are not now doing with Express. (Do you really need pro?) For the basic things, Pro is not going to be much different performance-wise, and audio will use the same amount of disk space. However, if you're upgrading to use the fancier plugins, then the higher performance machine makes sense.
In my opinion, you will want and external hard drive either way. Performance is better and you don't clutter your startup disk with tons of audio files.
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