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Their Macs are a bit pricey. You can get a G3 Mac for less than $50 at so many other places.
 
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That would not add much power to a network to make it worth the money.
 
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That would not add much power to a network to make it worth the money.

I concur, you would waste so much electricity for just a little bit of processing power.
 
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I would not put anything less then a xserve g4 in a cluster, any of the powermac g5s would do if it has dual processor.
 

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