I have a 1999-vintage G4 tower
Those have a pretty low power draw, something like 20W. (Assuming you didn't hot it up too much.) They'd be a fairly decent media server, assuming they'd be up to the task. Our dual and quad G5's are 10-20x the power draw, leave them on and you'd see it in your power bill. Lack of space and need, though, I gave our G4 tower away. We'd never deployed it for anything, it was a gift from a neighbor that bought a pallet load of PC's that came from a school district. Got the monitor I'm using on this dual G5 in the same batch. (Jill's 30" cinema display was _not_ free, however!) The G3 beige is on 24x7, and runs 10.2.8, upon which I use Apple Mail, and master my web site. I did all the Illustrator schematics I have on it, too. I finally got to stop going downstairs to read email when I figured out that Vines was the only way to do remote screen work. Once that was up and running I got to stay upstairs and run the Beige from either my Pismo, or this G5D that's networked _through_ another Pismo's airport. This G5D is the only non–laptop we have that's not using a hardwire ethernet link. The G5's are the only things that surf well, though, except for selected sites like Craigslist where the Pismo is happy. I had to give up surfing on the Beige years ago, though at first it worked just fine. Javascript cured that. I have a G5 dual because it turned out there was no way to effectively use the 30" display on it. I had to buy another (quad) in order to get a high-enough capacity video card. So I put the dual in service for myself. Oops. I use it to surf, and to offload the camera's pictures. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
