I'm getting a free PowerMac G4 QuickSilver... What should I do with it?

[slugg]

If I remember off the top of my head, it's an 800 mhz G4 with 1.5 gb of memory. I forgot what kind of memory. It should be here in 2-3 days...

Any ideas? It's an oldie... But hopefully I can get some kind of use out of it.

 

[Tristicus]

You could set it up as some sort of hardware firewall or download machine...even a server.

 

[slugg]

No need for a download machine or firewall... I'd love a server - too bad I live in a dorm and they'll shut down my connection if I run a server :-/

 

[bearxor]

Sell it while you can still get a few hundred dollars for it. Seriously. I can't think of any good use for that machine other than a firewall/server or a web browsing machine. Even the cheap MacMini will run circles around it.

 

[TheStu]

800MHz G4? Not very powerful, not very useful. Can't run Leopard, so limited to Tiger at best, can't handle flash, so no good as a kid computer... sell it if you can.

 

[slugg]

Well I have it. It's not as good as I thought it'd be. Basically, my mom doesn't know anything about computers, so I had to make a guess based on how she described it.

PowerMac 450 mhz G4, 256 mb RAM. Those purplish-green ones with the silver sides - plastic case with handles. The case is too short to mod into a viable PC case for most configurations since the PSU is mounted sideways.

I was hoping to do something cool with it. If money wasn't so tight, I'd love to build a Hackintosh inside of it.

 

[ViRGE]

This would be the specific Mac you have: http://apple-history.com/body.php?page=gallery&model=g4agp&sort=date&performa=off&order=ASC

You basically have a computer from 1999, so I'm with Tristicus: Burn it with fire. I can't possibly think of anything useful you could do with that.