160 MB was the same for my Motorola StarMax 4000. If that's the big deal then really it's not that bad a Mac. I would probably love it then, although as mentioned I'm sure it's not as easy to get into as my StarMax was.

For Mac OS 9.1, 160 MB was more than enough for the StarMax. I also had bypassed the internal video by using a 16 MB Voodoo3 2000 PCI card and that helped tremendously. It also ran Debian "Sarge" nicely albeit not as speedily as Mac OS 9.1.