If you're asking is this a wise purchase for your iMac? You need to compare all the variables versus a replacement? It's a slick way to get a 500 MHz G4 in an slot loading iMac, however, only you know if it makes sense for your use? How much budget you have, how long you plan to keep the iMac for after the upgrade, what kind of things you do on the iMac, whether Altivec will add a lot of benefit, etc.?
Key Question is OS X. If your are upgrading to run OS X then a G4 is a must - large areas rely on Altivec acceleration. Other than that it's really only specialist applications that use it in OS 9 so if you don't intend on running OS X or maybe Photoshop or something of that ilk in OS 9 then it's not worth buying a G4. Personally however, where as 18 months ago I considered a G4 wasn't compulsary now it is getting that way if you want to stay on track with Panther & the like.
By the time the upgrade is done, and assuming you max out RAM, and maybe add a bigger HD, you'll have spent half the cost of a refurbished, eMac with a full Apple warranty.
If you can stand the noise and the lousy screen that is.... and at the end of the day half *is* only half, but on t he other hand a new Mac *is* something special.
It is certainly not any kind of a bad product. Only you can answer the economics question?
As above. I'm just dispensing my advices.
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