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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Fleet" data-source="post: 1305820" data-attributes="member: 2368">Actually should be no probs at all running Tiger on that machine. My G4 733 mhz was more than happy running OS 10.4.11 with 733 MB ram. Passed it on to my Dad before 10.5 was released so don't know how that would go but one of the many beauties of Macs is definitely the way in which relatively old machines run the latest OS. Anyone fancy trying to install Vista on an eight year old PC?I agree that upgrading an eMac - especially if it does turn out to have a dodgy hard drive isn't going to be cost effective - possibly the best value upgrade option is a used G4 tower - they go on eBay for almost nothing - £50 isn't uncommon - add a reasonable 19" monitor for £100, upgrade to 10.4 bung in a bit of extra RAM if necessary and you can have a cracking machine for not a lot of cash with lots of PCI ports for further expansion if required.</blockquote>