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Imac too old???

I have an Apple Imac G3/600 with Leopard and wireless broadband.....I wonder with external HD it would serve as music server. I have latest Itunes on machine and was thinking of ripping cd's and then transfer to ipod. My question is whether the technology is now too old..can I use to transfer digital files to external drive & then ipod?? (Santa to deliver I think!) Also would download internet radio tracks as well. I also have HP laptop less than a year old with great processor speed and hard disk room but seems that vista is harder to use... I use Dared MP-5 tube amp/dac with itunes and this old imac and internet radio and assume it would be part of a music server system with an external HD but I'm not sure how to go about this...can someone simplify this for me??? thanks in advance
dla405j
ecruz
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If you're running Leopard with no issues and all your doing is using iTunes and an external drive, you should be fine.

I was using an iMac G3/450 with an external 500 gig drive, running 10.4 and it worked fine. I have since upgraded to a Mac Mini.
rbstehno
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you are running fine now. what i would do is get yourself a NAS disk setup and put all of your itunes stuff on that. get a NAS that has 3 or 4 disk drives in it so you can build a raid 5 setup to protect your library incase 1 disk fails. also, the NAS will allow you to share this array with all your computers on the network.
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