1. I don't like AROS
2. Not comfortable buying big old MACs that weigh a ton and have them shipped from halfway Europe (these are impossible to find in my country) and I want something better than a Mac mini...
Well, obviously a Mac Mini is not going to be as fast as an X5000.
And the systems that would be, like the PowerMac G5 do weigh a LOT.
A Mac Mini's processor would be more powerful than the one in Tabor, but the graphics are not upgradable and they have only 32 or 64mb of video ram.
A toss up except for price in which the Mini would probably win.
However, the Mini can only run MorphOS, not OS4.
If OS4 is coming to PowerBooks, I CAN recommend those as they run MorphOS extremely well.
But running MorphOS on Tabor?
Why? My iBook would beat the processor benchmarks for that and it cost me less than $100.
If you want to run MorphOS, the 1.42 iBook is a dirt cheap way to start.