I'm on a 1.5Ghz single G4 in an upgraded Sawtooth. It does have a hacked 256MB nVidia GForce 6200 graphics card and SATA card/drives so it's pretty snappy. But it's still on a 100MHz bus. So even a single 1.8Ghz G5 with the slower 600MHz bus would be a big step up for me-I'd throw down $175 in a heartbeat!
Other than the typical, mostly tongue in cheek Apple bashing, I don't know why anyone into computers wouldn't want one of these at this price. Maybe we should all chip in and buy several to send to the MorphOS developer crew ;-)
I like that idea, maybe only 2, or 3 G5 PowerMacs would be enough for the team to share in working on getting MorphOS to work on and take advantage of the G5 in the PowerMac. If MorphOS could take advantage of all of the G5 CPU's improvements over the G4 would be great and if the team could also make some kind of dual core implementation, any kind, even if it was not the most ideal implementation where the OS itself was multithreaded and it was only set up to run certain applications on the second core where developers could write their new MorphOS apps to use the second core on a dual core system if detected, it would be better than not taking advantage of the second core at all. Perhaps such an implementation could even be set up to allow the use of all 4 cores in PowerMac systems that have two dual core G5 CPUs (Quad core systems).
