I’m talking about classic games that you could easily pour hours into on a lazy Sunday. There are great games that work brilliantly on G5 hardware as well. You could pop an SSD in there for speeds 41x faster. I even still have an OG G4 Mini that has been on for years seeding torrents. These old Macs were built to last, quiet and have low power draw (at least on the Mac Minis). It can be used for all sorts of things once you start delving in. It has ports that you can plug external drives into and serve as a torrent box, a Time Machine backup, your own server, VPN or a personal cloud. You can easily turn that G5 into an iTunes Home Share to serve up Movies, Music and TV shows to your other computers, phones, tablets and AppleTVs. Most have gone free since they are legacy apps. There are plenty of apps that still work just fine and can be easily found and downloaded in either the PPCAppStore or the PPCStore. Plus Leopard is full featured and runs smooth on G5 hardware. I recommend you stay with Leopard since Linux or BSD will be more involved and will drop support for PowerPC not long from now as well. OSX 10.5 Leopard is the latest operating system that supports PowerPC Macs. Then you can use another computer’s keyboard or even your phone with a VPN app to control the G5. If not, then go into System Preferences -> Sharing -> Screen Sharing and enable it. It’s a Mac and can be used for many things even today.
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