Cheap Mac Mini

[claptonman]

Hey, guys, I posted this in the reflect on life thread but I need some opinions.

I found a Mac Mini on craigslist for $80. It is this:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac_mini_g4_1.5.html

1.5 GHz PowerPC 7447a (G4) processor
ATI Radeon 9200 64mb
512mb RAM

I've talk to a friend and he said it can only go up to OSX 10.6. I want this to mess around with a mac and watch movies/TV shows on my TV. I'm concerned it won't have enough power to run at 1080, but 720 would be fine for me too, don't need insane graphics. I could install a lightweight linux distro just for movies/TV. What do you guys think? Opinions?

 

[Geoff]

OS X 10.5 Leopard is the latest Mac OS that supports PowerPC processors. We have a ton of 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo's with 512MB of RAM that run OS X 10.6 at work, and they are insanely slow. Basically unusable for anything except text-based web browsing.

 

[claptonman]

OS X 10.5 Leopard is the latest Mac OS that supports PowerPC processors. We have a ton of 1.5GHz Intel Core Solo's with 512MB of RAM that run OS X 10.6 at work, and they are insanely slow. Basically unusable for anything except text-based web browsing.

Yeah, I asked on another site and got the same responses. Oh well, I'll keep looking for a better deal.