chrisla;475998 Wrote: > You're running Leopard on a G4? That's a neat trick! >
If you look up Apple's OS adoption rate, you might find that a very significant percentage of G4 machines are currently running Leopard (Mac OS 10.5). Maybe you're thinking of "Snow Leopard" (Mac OS 10.6) the more recent Intel-only release which can obviously, only be run on Intel systems. No Apple system will compare favorably to the price of a netbook, but you can't buy an equivalent system from any other top-tier manufacturer and save more than $100. But savings aside, the systems are worth at least 2x their monetary cost in peace of mind, longevity and usability. Running Plex or Boxee on a Mac makes it a "client" or an appliance, not a server. The server is the system that the Plex or Boxee front end would stream content from. Any mini makes a decent machine for Squeeze Server. Of course if you really want the web interface to fly you're going to want at least a dual quad-core Xeon instead. :) But if you're never going to interact with the OS, you might as well run Linux on some cobbled together hardware that isn't as pretty nor durable, but may be faster and cheaper. Then you can use the mini as that client we mentioned earlier... -- MelonMonkey Bruno *'Twisted Melon - Fine Mac OS Software' (http://twistedmelon.com)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MelonMonkey's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8466 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70162 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
