It all depends what you are going to do with it. $225 for a G5 you intend to use (and is up to the challenge) as your main mac is a good price, but $225 for something to add to your collection that will see little use is not good since the prices are not near rock bottom yet.
I spent $400 or so back in 2000 for build up an 8500 with G3, 8MB video card, decent RAM, and IDE card for my main hobby mac. It was money well spent because it ran OS 9 well and lasted me untill a year or so ago when I got a B&W for free. If I had not used it I would have been better off waiting untill PCI macs were worthless and then get a loaded one for penuts. One day I want the last OS 9 booting G4 to finish my collection, but I can/will wait for them to be so obsolete that they are worthless before I do.
People need to decide what they want to actually use as their main rig and what they want to collect to determine what is a good deal.
I spent $400 or so back in 2000 for build up an 8500 with G3, 8MB video card, decent RAM, and IDE card for my main hobby mac. It was money well spent because it ran OS 9 well and lasted me untill a year or so ago when I got a B&W for free. If I had not used it I would have been better off waiting untill PCI macs were worthless and then get a loaded one for penuts. One day I want the last OS 9 booting G4 to finish my collection, but I can/will wait for them to be so obsolete that they are worthless before I do.
People need to decide what they want to actually use as their main rig and what they want to collect to determine what is a good deal.