It is a small step. It will be a little faster but the real question is how much will it cost? I say for 100 Mhz upgrade you should only buy if you have a great deal ($100 or less.) Otherwise 700Mhz is not blazing fst today and you could put the money you would spend towards a new computer or extra storage.
Skip the whole upgrade and buy a eMac for the same price you will probably pay for the upgrade card. There are so many advantages in the newer hardware that you will never get a 9600 even in spitting distance of the lowest end modern hardware.
Apple is selling a refurbed 800Mhz eMac for $529 (CD-Rom only). If you compare that machine to a 9600 you have:
HD:
a much bigger hard drive
much faster access to that hard drive
Memory:
more standard memory
cheaper memory upgrades
higher max ram
much faster memory access
Connections:
USB
Firewire
10/100 Ethernet
...and MacOS 10.3, a new monitor, and a
good chance that you can use a second monitor as an extended desktop.
And if you compare this to only getting the upgrade card ($270 for 700Mhz, and $350 for 800Mhz), the difference will probably pay for itself in the first video editing job. To be perfectly honest.. even 800Mhz is rather pokey for video editing... but trying to do so on the old 9600 platform (upgraded or not) is simply not a good idea. It was a nice box in its day... but that day was years ago.
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Apple is selling a refurbed 800Mhz eMac for $529 (CD-Rom only). If you compare that machine to a 9600 you have:
HD:
- a much bigger hard drive
- much faster access to that hard drive
Memory:- more standard memory
- cheaper memory upgrades
- higher max ram
- much faster memory access
Connections:- USB
- Firewire
- 10/100 Ethernet
...and MacOS 10.3, a new monitor, and agood chance that you can use a second monitor as an extended desktop.
And if you compare this to only getting the upgrade card ($270 for 700Mhz, and $350 for 800Mhz), the difference will probably pay for itself in the first video editing job. To be perfectly honest.. even 800Mhz is rather pokey for video editing... but trying to do so on the old 9600 platform (upgraded or not) is simply not a good idea. It was a nice box in its day... but that day was years ago.