Think about it, you've been holding on to your old 9600 or G3 minitower for a while but now it's time to buy a new Mac. you bring home your shiny new MDD G4 Powermac and nothing from your old setup works with it! Not your monitor, not your printer, nothing! I'd be jumping mad.

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Which is why you do your research to begin with before you buy anything. In that case you'd probably be better off either hanging onto the 9600 for a little longer as it is, or putting a G4 upgrade in it.

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But going from a late beige machine to a MDD was a typical upgrade back when the MDD was new. If you are a corporate user or a school with 200 machines to replace, having to replace all your old peripherals at the same time is unacceptable. It would be enough to drive you away from expensive Macs to cheap PC's.