My G4/400 Sawtooth is the latest G4's to be released by Apple. I'm a teacher and use my computer for music, video, databases, web publishing, serving web pages and doing flyers/posters. This machine rocks!

I took it out of the box, plugged in my phone line, attached my monitor, plugged in the keyboard/mouse and went for the ride of my life. Everything was pre-installed and worked just perfectly. I had a G3 notebook, which seemed fast to me, but when I can go to the kitchen to get a glass of water and walk back and the system is completely booted, I knew I had found a machine that was going to save me hours of time.

I opted for the the 27gig hard drive with 256 megs of ram and a SCSI card for my scanner and CDW-R. It came with a zip disk, dvd/cd player, 1 extra USB port and two FireWire ports (Which works great with my Sony Camcorder!).

There are two problems. First, it doesn't have a serial port, so I had to get a USB adaptor for my Apple printer. The DVD runs completely on software (That's how fast this thing is!) and the video and audio become out of sync for some movies. I hear Apple is close to releasing an update to the DVD software to take care of this problem, though.



Recommended: Yes

Amount Paid (US$): 2,965
Operating System: Macintosh
Processor: PowerPC G4
Processor speed: 301-400
RAM: More than 128
Internal Storage: Zip Drive
Hard Drive (GB): Over 12