PowerPC server... how?

[goMac]

Perhaps they have nothing to do more with whatever they have. Perhaps life is is boring with what they have.

Speaking as someone who has a small PowerPC collection but uses Intel Macs, and has disagreed with people recommending PowerPC Macs before...

My biggest issue is that PowerPC Macs typically require more... love, care and attention than Intels. If you know what you're getting into, that's awesome. But I see way too many times someone who doesn't know better, but is expecting the "Mac experience" is recommended a PowerPC Mac to save money.

I wouldn't recommend PowerPCs for that purpose. They can't run the latest software. They can't run normal Flash well. They can't be taken to the Apple store and repaired.

For power users that's ok. But for a recommendation to someone who want a machine that just works, and they can go to the store and buy software for, it's just a poor choice.

I guess my general problem is with people who have the attitude that Intel Macs and PowerPC Macs are for, all things considered, equal. You can throw blame at different parties around all you want, but at the end of the day they aren't.

Still love my PowerPCs as collectors items though. But they're old computers.

 

[Nameci]

I have a small PowerPC Mac collection as well as a couple of personal Intel Macs. But we will differ on our views about this PowerPC and Intel Macs.

I am currently on my PowerPC Mac writing this reply. My Intel Macs, I am watching hulu on it right now, and the other one is in my bag. The mini serves as a file server/media server, hulu/itunes box. Basically, that is what is its worth right now. Way overkill.

My PowerMac eventhough it is old but is used for work and worked well. A computer will never be too old unless your requirement tells you so.

 

[goMac]

I have a small PowerPC Mac collection as well as a couple of personal Intel Macs. But we will differ on our views about this PowerPC and Intel Macs.

I am currently on my PowerPC Mac writing this reply. My Intel Macs, I am watching hulu on it right now, and the other one is in my bag. The mini serves as a file server/media server, hulu/itunes box. Basically, that is what is its worth right now. Way overkill.

My PowerMac eventhough it is old but is used for work and worked well. A computer will never be too old unless your requirement tells you so.

Sure, but what if a PowerPC was your ONLY Mac?

The Hulu watching would probably not be happening.

 

[Nameci]

It is still possible. Hulu watching is still possible on a powerpc mac. Tried it.

 

[goMac]

It is still possible. Hulu watching is still possible on a powerpc mac. Tried it.

See, and that's where I begin to have issues.

If a PowerPC Mac is your only Mac, what's the YouTube experience like out of the box?

It's one thing if someone has an Intel Mac already. But it's another if a PowerPC is your only Mac. There are plenty of people here who have found software combinations and dark magic to keep their Macs going (and I don't mean that negatively), but for a normal user that's the sort of stuff that they shouldn't have to mess with if they own a Mac.

 

[zen.state]

Some like to play follow the leader and buy/use what the industry and their peers tell them. Others (like myself) prefer to pave my own computing path and I actually have hardware preferences that are based on a lot more than something as simple minded as speed.

A lot of people would be shocked at how many more computers skills you can acquire just from using older hardware in the modern world.

I do not use PowerPC at all because they're cheap. It's 100% pure hardware preference. I could afford multiple Mac Pro towers if I chose to buy them but I have no desire to own one.

As I have stated many times before... any computer is only as capable as the user.

 

[Nameci]

See, and that's where I begin to have issues.

If a PowerPC Mac is your only Mac, what's the YouTube experience like out of the box?

It's one thing if someone has an Intel Mac already. But it's another if a PowerPC is your only Mac. There are plenty of people here who have found software combinations and dark magic to keep their Macs going (and I don't mean that negatively), but for a normal user that's the sort of stuff that they shouldn't have to mess with if they own a Mac.

We are gone out of topic here, we can argue all day through and it does not answer the OP's questions.

He needs a powerpc mac for a server, and to add suggestions, for me it would be, the GigE G4, SawTooth or QS. They are not that much power hungry, you can equip it with a PCI SATA card and you can put multiple hard drives on it.

 

[Ariii]

We are gone out of topic here, we can argue all day through and it does not answer the OP's questions.

He needs a powerpc mac for a server, and to add suggestions, for me it would be, the GigE G4, SawTooth or QS. They are not that much power hungry, you can equip it with a PCI SATA card and you can put multiple hard drives on it.

Oh, thanks! I'm thinking of getting a dual SawTooth, how much power would you estimate it would take up without the video card (Also having a 20 GB HDD) running command-line Debian on 2 GB RAM, if that's possible?