Transferring work from G4 to Mac Mini...?

[arandagirl]

Hello all,

I am new to this forum so I apologize if this subject has been discussed at some earlier time...

I have a G4 PowerMac and although it has served me quite well, I find with increasing frustration that this computer will can longer keep up with life. I continually get the message that OS9 is too old to run whatever I may wish to download, buy or borrow...

So I am considering replacing it with a Mac Mini Intel.

But I think that I am heading for an ever stickier can of worms. I have the feeling that all of my work done on the G4 will not be transferable to OSX Tiger because the applications that I am using , PageMaker, Photoshop and GoLive will not be supported. Certainly the versions that I am using will not work with Tiger. I know that there is no new version of PageMaker made for Tiger and if GoLive 4 is not transferable to GoLive 6 (I have tried this) I seriously doubt that my previous web work will open in GoLive CS.

So it looks like everything I have done to date including 5 web sites, all of my stationery and much design work will have to be repeated from a blank page if I upgrade to OSX Tiger.

Or is there some magic that is possible?

Regards

Bruce

 

[eric2006]

You may want to post in the Adobe forums about upgrading your documents -
http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/

It may be possible to run OS 9 on the intel macs - see this:
http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/08/7352/

If all else fails, the answer may be to slowly upgrade. You could get the mini, and create new sites on it, whatever works. The bottom line is that you're going to have to upgrade sooner or later, OS 9 can only go so far.

 

[bobw]

Or install OS X on your G4. As long as you have enough memory (at least 512MB) it will run fine and give you a feel for it.

If you like the G4, it's completely upgradeable, processor, memory, hard drives, CD/DVD-R drive, Graphics Card. Of course, all that would cost more than a Mini.