This har proberbly been asked before but I was wondering:

I have a macmini 1,42 ghz, 1gb ram. 32 gb Vram. Nice little machine that runs MorphOS fine.

I have just been offered a very cheap PowerMacG4 MDD with a radeon 9000 card.

Besides that the vram on a radeon 9000 is at least 64mb and the PowerMac can take 2MB is there any other advantages with the PowerMac compared to the mini?

Just wondering

MorphOS 'only' see 1.5 GB of ram, but you've proably noticed that 1GB is more than enough, (unlike Mac OS X), but I did find the increase in graphics ram a big improvement for running mutiple screens. when I got my hands on a 1.5 mac MIni.

I don't know about the Powermacs, but you can easily fit fast big hard drives, which probably would help as well, so depends how cheap!

You just have more options with a "big box" and especially the ability to use a better GPU is worth it.

Unfortunately not yet (maybe in MorphOS 2.8...), but you can use SATA harddisks in Powermac (with a SATA controller in a PCI-Slot.). And, even if the CPU speed of the Powermac is on par with Mac mini's CPU speed, you have the option to upgrade the cpu if you wish (and more important, if you can afford...). And like it was said, you could use a better gfx card, currently the best choice for MorphOS is a Mac Radeon 9000 pro with 128 MB VRAM (this may change with 3D drivers for 9600 - 9800).

[ Edited by analogkid on 2010/12/3 10:52 ]

can we use SATA now with 2.7 in powermac ?

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Ok. Thank you for all the answers.

The price for the machine is around 100 euro for a version with 1,25 ghz processor, 512 MB ram, radeon 9000, 80 gb hd and gigabit networkcard.

It sounds cheap but is it?

John: imo it's cheap. I paid 150e for dual 1.42.

SATA = buy a SATA->IDE adapter.

Problem solved.
Got one right here. Bought it so I could plug in a blu ray drive.
And no...this is not an invitation to discuss bluray!

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wondering Mos performances on a SSD....