Hahahaha that was the best story ive heard in ages! 
And props to them for keeping a DA up and running still... I remember when they were still new I was awestruck by them.
I actually still use a Yikes G4 myself as my everyday computer... it's running a 500mhz Encore CPU upgrade and maxed out at 1GB of RAM and runs Panther wicked fast and even runs Tiger nice and smoothly, if a little slower than Panther due to the graphics-intensive nature of the UI and the fact it's still running the stock 16Mb Rage128 graphics card. My parents paid for half of a G3/300 B+W for me many many years ago now, which I promptly ripped apart and rebuilt with rev.2 gear and a 450 processor and a fair chunk of ram and DVD burner so I could use it for graphics and video escapades... I eventually maxed it and then decided I needed a G4, which is the point where I got the Yikes, put in the sonnet upgrade, a gig of RAM, a DVD burner, and a couple of 40Gb drives, which at one stage were pretty big... how times have changed lol.
Ive been using it for years and it has never really exceeded my diminishing requirements until recently, where I came to a realisation that I was outgrowing my hard drive, and the internet had gotten fat too.. I'd also intended to do somethng about an upgraded graphics card but never gotten round to it. So here I am now faced with either upgrading the hard drives to a pair of 120Gbs, which is the upper limit of what it will support, and spending a still rather high price for a Mac Edition Radeon 9000 PCI graphics card, and having a somewhat more usable machine with absolutely no more room to expand, or retiring after nearly 13 years and replacing it with something a little more capable.
I have no intent to ever own an Intel-based mac in the near future (dont bother, it's an argument nobody will win with me
), and with the market for PowerPC systems down the toilet now a few years since the release of the Intel architecture Macs, I can buy any Powermac G4 for almost nothing, and last gen G5's even for a tiny fraction of the orignal retail price. I' love the nutso capabilities of the G5, but I always loved the last-gen G4 MDD, and I can pick one up for less than the cost of a sodding graphics card for the Yikes. So yeh I'm looking at a Dual-1.25 FW800 MDD as a successor, in keeping with my penchant for old-tech, which will cost me half of what a hens-teeth PCI Radeon for mac and a pair of new hard drives will, give me room to upgrade, and even as it sits, perform infinitely better than the old Yikes... I very much doubt i will find myself growing out of it soon, as the Yikes took me this long.
Theres something intrinsically satisfyng about maxing out a Mac to its ultimate form, so Ill probably upgrade the Yikes to that point anyway, but its definitely time to stick it on the toy bench finally.
Oh incidentally I still have the G3 I mentioned too, also running the same specs as the Yikes but for the processor
And props to them for keeping a DA up and running still... I remember when they were still new I was awestruck by them. I actually still use a Yikes G4 myself as my everyday computer... it's running a 500mhz Encore CPU upgrade and maxed out at 1GB of RAM and runs Panther wicked fast and even runs Tiger nice and smoothly, if a little slower than Panther due to the graphics-intensive nature of the UI and the fact it's still running the stock 16Mb Rage128 graphics card. My parents paid for half of a G3/300 B+W for me many many years ago now, which I promptly ripped apart and rebuilt with rev.2 gear and a 450 processor and a fair chunk of ram and DVD burner so I could use it for graphics and video escapades... I eventually maxed it and then decided I needed a G4, which is the point where I got the Yikes, put in the sonnet upgrade, a gig of RAM, a DVD burner, and a couple of 40Gb drives, which at one stage were pretty big... how times have changed lol.
Ive been using it for years and it has never really exceeded my diminishing requirements until recently, where I came to a realisation that I was outgrowing my hard drive, and the internet had gotten fat too.. I'd also intended to do somethng about an upgraded graphics card but never gotten round to it. So here I am now faced with either upgrading the hard drives to a pair of 120Gbs, which is the upper limit of what it will support, and spending a still rather high price for a Mac Edition Radeon 9000 PCI graphics card, and having a somewhat more usable machine with absolutely no more room to expand, or retiring after nearly 13 years and replacing it with something a little more capable.
I have no intent to ever own an Intel-based mac in the near future (dont bother, it's an argument nobody will win with me
), and with the market for PowerPC systems down the toilet now a few years since the release of the Intel architecture Macs, I can buy any Powermac G4 for almost nothing, and last gen G5's even for a tiny fraction of the orignal retail price. I' love the nutso capabilities of the G5, but I always loved the last-gen G4 MDD, and I can pick one up for less than the cost of a sodding graphics card for the Yikes. So yeh I'm looking at a Dual-1.25 FW800 MDD as a successor, in keeping with my penchant for old-tech, which will cost me half of what a hens-teeth PCI Radeon for mac and a pair of new hard drives will, give me room to upgrade, and even as it sits, perform infinitely better than the old Yikes... I very much doubt i will find myself growing out of it soon, as the Yikes took me this long.Theres something intrinsically satisfyng about maxing out a Mac to its ultimate form, so Ill probably upgrade the Yikes to that point anyway, but its definitely time to stick it on the toy bench finally.
Oh incidentally I still have the G3 I mentioned too, also running the same specs as the Yikes but for the processor