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Originally Posted by popper
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yours is the 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 processor with AltiVec, 256 MB RAM, and 80 GB hard drive isnt it?.
perfectly good enough to run a PPC linux on, and connect it to your DVI monitor/TV for use as a media center.
although the PPC linux OS distro's dont currently take advantage of the AltiVec, you can have your apps compiled for it to get a great boost in speed.
the apple OS does have AltiVec optimisations inside it, shame about it being to heavy overall so you loose much of its AltiVec advantage.
the PPC AltiVec unit as a general rule gets at least twice the performance of the equiv x86 MMX* units given the same clockspeeds so its werth compiling/tuning your linux distro and apps to make use of it were they exist.
just one old link as an example
http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/25/h...-media-center/
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Actually its a 1.5ghz G4 with 512mb ram although im not entirely sure the ram module plays nice with it, did have a couple kernel panics although haven't had one since i resintalled osx (it had 512, which I swapped for 1gb, but then I swapped the 1gb for a 512 off my dad so my brother could have more ram in his pc)
I would have used it as my storage server instead of the p3 500 pc im using but it was *far* cheaper to get a sata card for the p3 than to shell out for a couple usb caddies for the sata drives I wanted to use for that project.