My main computer is my trusty quad G5.
I do have an iMac G4 but I use it as a backup workstation. It works well enough within the relatively limited usage I need for it (playing music, TenFourFox, terminal logins to the house servers).
Edit: I should add, too, that my expectations are much lower than apparently much of the other posters. I don't use Netflix, Hulu, Steam or indeed any streaming or software service, and I don't use iTunes. Even though I am the maintainer-dictator, TenFourFox works fine for me for banking, billpay and posting to 68KMLA, which is all anyone needs to do on the Net.
Also, because it is Gecko, it still gets security patches which cover most of the gaps in the OS except for plugins and certain other flaws, and a good firewall can greatly reduce that attack surface -- which I have (the internal network can't route to the T1 directly; everything is through proxies and specific ports).
For the few situations I do need video, that's what the QuickTime Enabler is for. It's coming along. My top priority is to get it fooling Vimeo to cough up H.264.
If you expect to do everything a modern PC does, a Power Mac will disappoint you. But I don't need to do all that, and I already have a significant investment in the hardware. If you can do it cheaply, and you understand the limitations, then do it. Just understand the limitations thoroughly first.
I do have an iMac G4 but I use it as a backup workstation. It works well enough within the relatively limited usage I need for it (playing music, TenFourFox, terminal logins to the house servers).
Edit: I should add, too, that my expectations are much lower than apparently much of the other posters. I don't use Netflix, Hulu, Steam or indeed any streaming or software service, and I don't use iTunes. Even though I am the maintainer-dictator, TenFourFox works fine for me for banking, billpay and posting to 68KMLA, which is all anyone needs to do on the Net.
Also, because it is Gecko, it still gets security patches which cover most of the gaps in the OS except for plugins and certain other flaws, and a good firewall can greatly reduce that attack surface -- which I have (the internal network can't route to the T1 directly; everything is through proxies and specific ports).For the few situations I do need video, that's what the QuickTime Enabler is for. It's coming along. My top priority is to get it fooling Vimeo to cough up H.264.
If you expect to do everything a modern PC does, a Power Mac will disappoint you. But I don't need to do all that, and I already have a significant investment in the hardware. If you can do it cheaply, and you understand the limitations, then do it. Just understand the limitations thoroughly first.