My 8500 and 7500's don't get used too much these days. I have a 9600/350 waiting for some AVID cards (hopefully one of these days) to make that useful. I can't complain about my 8500 (my second mac ever purchased in 2001), it served me very well until I got a B&W G3 a few years ago. The 8500 has 700+ MB RAM, G3-400/1M, ATA100 IDE card with 2 HDs and a 40X IDE cdrom, ATI video card and a firewire/usb card.

I do wonder if the early PCI Powermacs will fall into the early PPC Nubus trap of not being cared for by collectors down the road, they were well built and very expandable machines.