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> The last G4 powerbooks are probably using a slower laptop drive,
> and that will hurt performance.

  Yep. A firewire/800 external drive would do the trick.

  For old G4 powermacs, there are a number of accelerator card options. 
Not sure if all of these exist anymore but it's a place to start:

   http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g4upgrades.html

later,

Peter.