On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:24 AM, Matevž Markovič wrote: > Guys, I agree with Jonas Ulrich. I use my PowerMac MDD Dual 1.25 for my own > research into theory of numbers and it is performing very well! So far it > had over 900 hours of computing time in last few months, and it still > performs well.
Well THAT covers 0.00001% of the potential market! 8-P The issue is NOT whether these systems are useful or capable of doing tasks, but whether they would be competitive in an environment where they would be competing against newer, faster, Winboxes more capable for general things like watching videos and such stuff. And frankly you're not going to compete against those. I can routinely get an essentially new Winbox for $300-$400 running Win7 with modern multi-core cpus. (Watch woot, they have them name-brand boxes all the time with AMD cpus.) Or look here: <http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=SYS> I can get a core 2 duo system for $170. There are a half-dozen Athlon systems for under $200. I"m not pronouncing any judgement on the relative merits of OS X versus Windows here, but these are the cold economic facts: these systems are much higher performance than any G4, ever, straight out of the box. Now some of them might be candidates for Hacks, which would be another thing entirely, but selling hacks can get you into trouble, just ask Psystar... In an environment where G5 systems are selling for as little as $150, and even early Intel macs are coming down to that $400 level, a G4 after the costs of upgrading simply cannot sell for enough to cover it's costs. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
