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powerpc mac is fine - just price it accordingly. Say you got a mac pro power-pc with two cpu's thats probably worth less than a mac mini for $499 at the apple store.

remember the pentium-4 was slow. a 3.06ghz p-4 would get smoked by a 1.86ghz core duo 🙂

so if you don't mind the dead end of 10.5.8 - and lack of newer software - and its near-free go for it.

The water cooling would leak on the those big boy G5's. btw.

G4=total trash do not even go there its so slow.

It's also hard to buy alot of ram, 802.11n card and some other modern creature comforts on older machines - this is one area where apple does not retain value.

powerpc was just a fail like Pentium-4 Netburst
 
I see. Being I got my mini, other people now like it but don't like the price. Some of the G4/G5 stuff on ebay goes cheap.

P4 800FSB are still very usable with XP/Vista 32, its a shame apples older CPU's arn't.
 
The higher speed G5s are quite tolerable for just about everything but content encoding (video) and HD Flash video. FP10.1 will improve performance of the Flash Player a fair amount and should definitely help with Flash related performance issues on faster G5 hardware. That said, G4 stuff is a dinosaur.
 
Fat chance 😛 But Flash Player 10.1's performance improvements on the Mac platform are not a result of GPU offloading, so the benefits will come to the PowerPC line.
 
I just recently sold a G5 due to lack of compatability with current/recent software. I can't recall which specific programs wouldn't run but I was a bit surprised at how much stuff would not run unless you had an Intel CPU. The G5 is a really nice piece of hardware, built very solid but the lack of running modern software was a killer for me.
 
The mini seems like a lot at $500+ new, but it is a steal if you are on the hook for fixing it. I love my family and don't mind fixing their computers, but it seems like every holiday or family get together I spend time fixing their machines rather than just visiting. When they ask for advice for their next machine I say get a cheap dell and put ubuntu on it or get a mac. I tell them I have no experience with Vista and just a few minutes with Seven, and that Seven looks nice but still has the registry which is a deal-breaker for me.

Steam for OS X is going to make macs a lot more palatable for gamers, even if hardware upgrade options are limited or non-existant.
 
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