Mac G5 / moving to OS X

That's not quite the case. Macs have a considerably longer useful life than PCs, generally, and are indeed upgradeable. I just took my January 1999 model Blue G3/400 desktop, swapped the 8.5 GB Ultra2Wide SCSI disk subsystem for a fast 200 gig Maxtor and an ATA 133 card, slipped in an 800 mhz G3 CPU daughtercard and installed a Radeon 7000 instead of the OEM Rage 128 and a LiteOn 52x CDROM instead of the old Matushita 24x (I already have an external 1394 burner) and a Kensington 3-button Studio Mouse. Runs OS 10.26 like a charm. Sure a G5 would be faster but this setup handles a heavy duty OS10.26 without any strain, web pages render in a flash etc. Plus this one will still boot OS9 directly and I can use my old ADB keyboard of which I'm fond. I figure on getting a year or two more out of this machine by which time I may just buy a laptop and use the G3 for a file and web server. I would've LIKED a new machine, but didn't NEED one. Of the four households in this immediate family 3 are on OS X; only my 87 year old father in law doesn't want to upgrade his 1998 rev A iMac and install it. That's 75% penetration. Also the G3/400 daughtercard I removed is now installed in what was formerly a Beige G3/266 I keep at work as a scanning station. That leaves me with a spare ZIF G3/266 daughtercard. Anybody need one? Seth Lewin