In short 220$
SO your thinking about buying a PowerPC Mac here in 2013 ( When this post was written) were now they are about 6 years old. An interesting decision.
What you need to know before buying:
- Many Newer Versions of Programs won't work on PowerPC Mac's (Older Versions will)
- You will have to do some tinkering ( Optimizations )
- Some things " Just won't work" with it being so old.
- BUT it is still a quality product
Check Amazon, which is were you should be buying from, and compare the prices to something like a netbook. With the price 250$ in your mind, please if you going to spend that much go a little higher say even 250$ you could get a older Macbook, ANY intel Mac is better than a PowerPC one in basicly every way. BUT everything PowerPC is cheaper, keep in mind its cheaper for a reason. I paid 125$ for my Powerbook G4 1.6ghz 15' 1gb ram. Which was a great purchase on my part.
BUT know that PowerPC's are going to be alive (Able to use the internet) for probably about 10 more years.
Don't get any PPC with under 1Ghz Proccessor it will run like poop, or under 1GB ram. If you do buy them like this obviously lower the standard price and buy ram with it. Also becareful with selection, its better to go with refurbished than used, the people that list them used probably don't know the specs and you might get something you didn't order.
The G's in the proccessor the higher the better Max is G5 lowest is G3.
They are well worth the small price in many aspects but not in others. You should try one though ^_^
BUT know that PowerPC's are going to be alive (Able to use the internet) for probably about 10 more years.
DON'T BE STUPID
Don't get any PPC with under 1Ghz Proccessor it will run like poop, or under 1GB ram. If you do buy them like this obviously lower the standard price and buy ram with it. Also becareful with selection, its better to go with refurbished than used, the people that list them used probably don't know the specs and you might get something you didn't order.
The G's in the proccessor the higher the better Max is G5 lowest is G3.
They are well worth the small price in many aspects but not in others. You should try one though ^_^