Why do you continue to use a G4?

Question

This may seem like an odd question as I assume that the obvious answer is economics for some, the need to still use OS9 for others and the fact that older G4's are cheap and highly upgradeable/hackable.
I bring this up because, I-like many on here, are looking (or already have) to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading our G4's but it dawned on me that instead of spending $600 or $700 to upgrade my machine I could use that money (coupled with what I get from selling my MDD) and purchase a faster G5.
The G4 line is testament to the sound design of the Apple PowerMac, but at some point technology will surpass it-future versions of OSX and other software may only work on-a bare minimum- the G5.
I dunno, just curious

Answer 1

I use the G4 because I do simple computing such as surfing the I-net, playing archaic 1980's-1990 based games, and some games of today though not as much. I also use the computer for everyday tasks such as: burning DVDs+CDs, making music cds, etc. I use it for word processing and microsoft office applications.
Although, I do make good money working for the US Gov't, I still don't have the funds to further upgrade to a newer machine, esp since personally I have a hatred towards the intel architecture and its technology - hense why I won't go with a Mac Pro b/c of that + the price is way too high.
If anything I will continue to use the G4 MDD as it serves my needs and probably will for the many years to come. I plan to run Slackware linux on my computer when I feel mac os x won't run on my machine. I do plan to get Leopard, thats if it is supported on the G4 MDD machine. Although, my blue prints for the future state that I probably will return to the PC architecture under the powerful processing power of AMD which is a cool processor for almost anything.
Although, I have A+ certification and network certs in PC networking, I have given up the technology, and so my knowledge goes back to P3 and earlier intel based machines.
A few interesting dates as to when I started on the Mac.
Circa 2000-2001 = Worked at Comp-USA as a corporate account manager/retail hardware sales representative and decided to buy the then 350mhz sawtooth or AGP Graphics power mac G4.
Because of financial difficulties I wound up selling my mac and restoring all power back to my Pentium III 866mhz machine with the full 768mb of pc133 memory. This was from late 2001-2005.
Late 2005 - Having been macsick over the fact that I sold my mac back in 2001 I came across the sawtooth mac again, but this time at 500mhz using the 7410 power4 processor. I purchased this one off of ebay.
End of 2005 - decided to search ebay for a better board and processor and this led me to the rise of the digital audio power mac g4 - THE MAC AT THIS STAGE IN MY LIFE WAS SET IN STONE. PowerPC all the way, until....
2006-present = Still have G4 Digital Audio and passing this onto my son. The processor is a 733mhz processor w/1MB cache. Then on craigslist I just acquired the Mirror Drive Doors G4 with Dual processors running at 1.25GHZ w/4 MB total L3 cache(2MB/Processor). I am loving this machine very much, but with Apple finally going with the PC technology and abandoning the power architecture, I am contemplating either later on looking into the G5(pending comfortable price level) - or reviving the PC and going with an AMD OPTERON system, however using Linux or BSD instead of windows vista.
All in all, this Mac is a very very powerful machine and I enjoy using it. I am sorry to those out there that think the G4 and possibly G5 can't provide basic/intermediary computing, but for the price of the new mac intel pc's, I can say that its better to consider a native PC than dual booting mac/pc. This is my own opinion of course. I am sorry if I have seriously offended people and Apple on here, but I am entitled to my own opinion. Mac OS X is based off of BSD and similar to FreeBSD which I used to run on my P3 system. I just don't see the cost for paying overpriced dollars for a machine that has more power than I could ever need.
For what I do and most on here will agree with me: 3ghz is something that I really don't need at the present, possibly not at all.
God Bless to everyone!
Nadav