Old mac software: Emulate or upgrade options?

ressem

Parts of this qn are probably suited to arts/DA&D, but parts are mac specific so created this here.

Qn: Best approach to get quark/adobe running on a new intel macbook at reasonable price.

Background:
My sister is back from a long career break. She works in design with Quark 4/Photoshop 5.5/Illustrator x.

So I got her a new macbook to replace an iBook 500 Mhz, running OS8.x, but the intel macs don't have a classic emulation mode.
There does not appear to be an upgrade option for Quark and Adobe that covers this (though I could have missed something). And buying again from scratch costs about a years savings. €834 + €833 + €1300

Options that I have seen so far:
1. Sell the MacBook and look for a PowerPC based mac on ebay.
2. Sheepshaver PowerPc emulator.
3. Install WinXP (or Parallels/VMWare), Give her my StudioMX and upgrade. Use InDesign instead of Quark.

So:
Does anyone have experience on using Quark etc within an emulator? I'd imagine that using the old machine would have better performance than Sheepshaver.
Or is there an upgrade path that I'm missing, is there any legit seller of older versions of Quark etc for reasonable prices. E.g. If Quark 4 is present but not usable on the new machine, will it pass the upgrade criteria, or will the upgrade process recognise the CD and OK the install?

Or other legal options?

Ham'nd'egger

Bloody hell, OS8 is years old, man!!

Surely, if she will be working on Adobe or Quark again, it will make sense to go for the new versions of same? At least she will be up to spec with the new technology, well in theory at least. Either her company can supply the relevant software or she can offset it off tax as a legitimate expense. As it is, you have given her the hardware, she can't exactly complain having to upgrade that bit herself, can she?

If you want to sell the Macbook, you may find that a IBM Mac will be pricy enough as they hold value well so do your sums wisely on this option or you may well end up losing cash on the deal. Yes you can go with Windows but again, it's more money lost and more software to buy.

Cabaal

I think in this situation you may end up biting the bullet and getting newer versions of the software in question,

ressem

Apparently Quark Express 5 for PC was given away for free on a PC Mag a few months back, so there might be possibilities there.

Though she says that former colleagues still haven't upgraded, and quark is famous for charging money for old rope.
A sample work done up in the demo version of Quark 7 had to be pdf'ed as it was too new.

Found a UK refurbished software dealer that advertises in some mac magazines, but looks a bit iffy despite having being around for years.

ressem

I'm officially a jammy git. Got Quark Express 5 on PC mag (PC Plus September '07, about to go out of stock ), with upgrade to 7 for stg£300.

Guess I'll end this now before I start an argument on convincing my sister that OS X isn't a grand better than you know who.

Thanks