Please give a list of machintosh computers or equilavent with
memory(RAM) details ,starting with earlyest which will run ,definately
, Adobe illustrator 10 or the equilavent Photoshop for machintosh.The
list will help me buy a second hand  machintosh

Hi! Thanks for the question.

Here are the Macintosh model and operating systems requirements of
Adobe Illustrator 10 and Adobe Photoshop 7.

Adobe Illustrator 10:
Macintosh Models: Mac G3, G4, G4 dual, or faster PowerPC processor
Operating Systems: Mac OS 9.1, 9.2, or OS X 10.1
Memory: 128 MB RAM
Hard Disk: 180 MB hard disk space
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005QVPW/103-2849998-9692651?v=glance&s=software&vi=tech-data


Adobe Photoshop 7:

Macintosh Models: PowerPC G3, G4, G4 dual, or faster processor
Operating Systems: Mac OS 9.1, 9.2, or Mac OS X 10.1.3
Memory: 128 MB RAM (192 MB RAM recommended)
Hard Disk: 320 MB hard disk space
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000063EMZ/103-2849998-9692651?v=glance&s=software&vi=tech-data


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If you want to use the latest versions of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe
Photoshop here are the system requirements.

Adobe Illustrator CS
Macintosh Models: PowerPC® G3, G4, or G5 
Operating Systems: Mac OS X v.10.2 through v.10.3 
Memory: 192MB of RAM (256MB recommended) 
Hard Disk: 470MB of available hard-disk space
http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/systemreqs.html 

Adobe Photoshop CS
Macintosh Models: PowerPC® G3, G4, or G5 processor 
Operating Systems: Mac OS X v.10.2 through v.10.3 
Memory: 192MB of RAM (256MB recommended) 
Hard Disk: 320MB of available hard-disk space
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/systemreqs.html 


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