Mac Mini G4...throw it away or keep it?

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1) There are millions of these thing out there, the available of both Mos and OS4 won't change the price of them 5 cents.
2( Leopard is, in most cases faster than Tiger.
3) Gentoo PPC exists.

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@kickstart

The Amiga was always about being elitist.  Back in the day the Amiga could run circles around the competition, we Amiga owners knew that and never hesitated to tell others about it...  Now it's elitist in the sense that we can plunk down hundreds of Euros on 20 year old technology!

As for OS X, it's Unix certified, the terminal is a Bash shell, I would have killed for a Bash shell on the Amiga.  there are amazing and wonderful things you can do in it.  Learn it and you will never want for another command line interface.

You can't really comapre the Amiga GUI with the Leopard GUI, there's several generations of computer technology between them.  In the '80s memory was quite dear, so if a feature could be done without it was.  Now we have cheap memory and lots of it.  The OS can bloom into it's full potential.  So essentially you are comparing The Flyer (The Wright Brother's plane) with an A380.

And the Mac crowd are even more a club than the Amiga folks were.  Remember you are comparing a community around a computer who's manufacturer died 13 years ago and a community around a computer that's at it zenith.

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What I meant was that the company that produced the Amiga is dead, the company that produced the Mac is alive and doing very well.  Hence the focus of users groups/communities around the two machines would be different.  Also there are millions of Mac users and only a few hundred Amiga users.  You could get to know the entire Amiga community personally.