Which g4 model should I look for?

Hi, I need a Mac, essentially to run Avid and Final Cut Pro. I would love to get a g5, but I'm on a tight budget, so I am thinking about picking up a cheap G4 and upgrading it as best as I can. I have never had a Mac before and really don't know much about the hardware, what type of G4 should I look for, and what upgrades would I need if I plan to use it mostly for editing?

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
The last G4 machines were by far the best. They were also by far the noisiest. Some have even called them the windtunnel. But they and the last generation QuickSilver G4s were the only ones that could use 500 GB Parallel ATA hard drives without partitioning. As far as I know no 1 TB Parallel ATA drives exist, but Firewire ones do exist. Partitioning restricted the amount of installed software on the boot section of the hard drive.
MDD G4s without Firewire 800 could also boot into 9 but had to use the original airport wireless, and so could QuickSilvers, but MDD G4s with Firewire 800 could use Airport Extreme wireless, and could only use Classic. Those which could only use Classic have no 9 support under 10.5, but could continue to use Classic under 10.4. Booting into 9 offered better Mac OS 9 driver support than Classic, which acts like a 9 emulator. No PowerMac G4 desktop offered built-in USB 2 support, only USB 1.1 support exists for them. iMac, eMac, aPowerbook G4s and iBook G4s after September 2003 offered USB 2. Firewire also known as IEEE 1394 is even faster than USB 2 in its earlier iteration even though specs don't suggest that it is, because of issues of sharing with other Firewire devices.
Suggest you visit:
http://support.apple.com/specs/#powermac
For a better sense of what's available to you.

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48 autofsd root 0.0 2 2.6 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
3211 backupd root 0.0 4 53.9 MB Intel (64 bit) No
16 blued root 0.0 3 15.6 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
13 configd root 0.0 6 6.6 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
3524 Console Jack 0.0 2 42.8 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
95 coreaudiod _coreaudiod 0.0 3 6.2 MB Intel (64 bit) No
21 coreservicesd root 0.0 4 40.4 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
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84 cvmsServ root 0.0 1 2.2 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
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12 diskarbitrationd root 0.0 2 4.0 MB Intel (64 bit) No
17 distnoted daemon 0.1 2 2.9 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
118 Dock Jack 0.2 3 53.3 MB Intel (64 bit) No
42 dynamic_pager root 0.0 1 2.2 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
80 FanControlDaemon root 0.0 2 9.3 MB Intel
120 Finder Jack 1.4 5 54.9 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
127 fontd Jack 0.0 2 10.2 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
40 fseventsd root 0.0 14 7.0 MB Intel (64 bit) No
39 hidd root 0.0 3 3.7 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
0 kernel_task root 1.7 72 202.4 MB Intel
37 KernelEventAgent root 0.0 3 2.6 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
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114 launchd Jack 0.0 2 2.0 MB Intel (64 bit) No
1 launchd root 0.0 3 1.7 MB Intel (64 bit)
36 loginwindow Jack 0.2 2 27.6 MB Intel (64 bit) No
35 mDNSResponder _mdnsresponder 0.0 3 4.9 MB Intel (64 bit) No
34 mds root 0.0 2 231.8 MB Intel (64 bit) No
3422 mdworker Jack 99.4 3 74.5 MB Intel (64 bit) No
11 notifyd root 0.0 2 1.1 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
24 ntpd root 0.0 1 2.9 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
123 pboard Jack 0.0 1 2.2 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
3477 Safari Jack 0.0 10 188.0 MB Intel (64 bit) No
31 securityd root 0.0 2 6.6 MB Intel (64 bit) No
14 syslogd root 0.0 4 1.3 MB Intel (64 bit) No
28 SystemStarter root 0.0 2 2.9 MB Intel (64 bit) No
119 SystemUIServer Jack 1.1 3 36.7 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
3337 TextEdit Jack 0.0 3 39.7 MB Intel (64 bit) Yes
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Which Mac Mini should I buy for use with a 65 inch Panasonic GT30?

Im very interested in surfing the web from the comfort of my Lay Z boy. I have a 65inch Panasonic GT30 tv along with an Onkyo TXNR609 av receiver that handles everything (DirecTV, PS3, X360, Wii, Apple TV). My only concern is the lag issue in dealing with the big display. Should I buy the base modle with the slower processor and upgrade the RAM? Or should I buy the i7 and rock out that way? I can afford either but would like to spend the least considering this isnt going to be the main computer in my house. Thanks for any advice!!

If you ever (*ever*) want to fire up a serious 3D game (one with a 2010+ appetite for GPU power), go for the midrange model with the real videocard. If you only want to browse the web, maybe do some flash, things like that, the low end model has enough videocard for that. That Mini has the same Intel HD Graphics 3000 as my MBA13/2011 does, and that is currently driving my external 24" 1920x1200 screen just fine. Your TV is 1920x1080, so that even though it may have a lot more inches, it has fewer pixels than that, and it's the pixels that cost GPU power, not the inches. Size doesn't matter, its what you do with it!
Since you're comfortable upgrading the ram yourself, obviously put in 8 or 16 instead of the 2 or 4 it comes with. The pricing on that ram is insanely low right now and while I'd personally go for the 16 on a desktop machine, I reckon for your intended usage 8 is well more than sufficient (4 would probably work, it does on aforementioned MBA13 after all), and it's about $50ish difference which is not nothing.
If you can live with a small capacity drive, and are willing to open up the Mini further than just the base cover over the ram, I'd recommend getting a 128 GB SSD and installing it. The Apple price for the 256GB SSD, only on the midrange, is probably not worth it. You can even get a second-hard-drive-kit from one of the two well-known vendors and add the SSD while keeping the existing drive as an internal storage drive.
P.S.: I don't actually believe in CPU upgrades. Even when you start with the midrange, the i7 is still $100 and that will also buy you that SSD, or get you most of the way to that SSD plus the second hard drive kit. The difference in performance between the i5 at 2.5 and the i7 at 2.7 is really pretty darn minimal, so as long as you're choosing to do one thing and not the other, get the SSD before the CPU upgrade, no question. If you wanna go full-option balls-to-the-wall-everything-maxed, that's another thing, just don't go for the i7 upgrade as the first thing.
P.P.S.: Now that the 2012 MBAs and traditional MBPs are out, it seems likely that a Mac Mini refresh is coming relatively soon which contains an Ivy Bridge CPU and chipset (which means USB3 and HD4000), a more capable discrete GPU in the versions that have them, and (speculation tempered with hope) one of those new 35W TDP Quadcores in the midrange model, possibly as the CPU upgrade (pretty please, Apple?). It might be worth waiting for. On the other hand, waiting for new computer hardware is also a chump's game. There's *always* something better around the corner.

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