Should I buy 350Mhz G4?

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riceforlife

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• May 17, 2004

• #1

Hi all,

I have the opportunity to buy a G4 350Mhz, 768 MB, 40GB, for $350. Its a PowerMac tower. The built-in audio is broken. Do you think that's a good deal? I intend to run the computer headless and configure it solely to be a fileserver/webserver/itunes server, so the broken audio doesn't seem so worrysome.

Or should I go even cheaper and just buy a G3 (I think I can get one for 260ish).

Thanks for the advice!
-LD

 

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bellychris

macrumors member

• May 17, 2004

• #2

I would go for it.

 

Steven1621

macrumors 6502a

• May 18, 2004

• #3

that is actually a pretty good price. if you have the cash on you, go for it for sure.

 

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denm316

macrumors 6502

• May 19, 2004

• #4

good price but it depends on what you want to do with it if it will really be worth it

 

oingoboingo

macrumors 6502a

• May 19, 2004

• #5

riceforlife said:

Hi all,

I have the opportunity to buy a G4 350Mhz, 768 MB, 40GB, for $350. Its a PowerMac tower. The built-in audio is broken. Do you think that's a good deal? I intend to run the computer headless and configure it solely to be a fileserver/webserver/itunes server, so the broken audio doesn't seem so worrysome.

Or should I go even cheaper and just buy a G3 (I think I can get one for 260ish).

Thanks for the advice!
-LD

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For the uses you mention (headlesss fileserver/webserver/itunes server) you'd be much better off buying an x86 system and running Linux on it. You'll certainly get more for your money.

 

Grimace

macrumors 68040

• May 19, 2004

• #6

It's got good guts - but it will be slow with OSX. I wouldn't recommend doing any serious computing on it.