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While I'm probably going to qualify myself as a total retro geek by posting this, these are my current Macs:

Power Mac 4400/200 (Tanzania board + worst case design ever), 144MB RAM, USB 1.1, 10Mbit Ethernet, 4 GB HD, running Debian Sarge in text mode quite happily. I need to get a silent fan for this, then it might be useful as a simple print server or something...

Power Mac "beige" G3/266 (rev. C), 32MB RAM (going to max this to 768 MB ASAP), 40GB HD, running Mac OS 8.6 (soon going to be replaced as default OS by Kubuntu or Debian). The one thing that stands out about this box is it being almost completely silent compared to most of my other computers. Not to mention a very service-friendly internal design compared to my PC boxes.

Since I'm not really a Mac aficionado, but wanted something retro goodness to play around with, I just rummaged through the leftovers after a computer cleanout at work and found these, and got them for free (as in beer).

I know I've posted in this thread before, but I have an addition:

14" G4 iBook

1.42GHz G4

512MB RAM (hopefully upgrading soon to 1.5GB)

60GB HDD

Superdrive

Mobile Radeon 9550

I have COMPLETELY switched now... Both desktop and laptop. And I must say that I've never been happier with my computing experience...

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