Since this was the topic, here, it's reality now since a couple of hours:
http://www.apple.com/macmini/

Costs $499 or €489.

Just you'd expect from Apple: very stylish and cool. No big room for upgrading and no power horse, but that's not what it's about. The website says it has one very silent fan.

So my personal summary ... you can build a much more powerful machine out of a Peg board. But in terms of sex appeal the Peggy just plain loses. For most ordinary consumers who don't need the power of high-end computers anyway, this is a great thing.

A properly configured system comes in just shy of $1000 (edit - $952 is where I got to!)

Imac G4 1.25
HDD upgrade to 80GB
MEM upgrade to 512MB (system has only 1 DIMM? and 1GB DIMM is stupid
expensive)
Optical drive upgrade to Superdrive (you want to burn CDs/DVDs I
assume)
Wireless Ethernet (Airport Extreme card)
Bluetooth upgrade
Wireless keyboard and mouse

Apart from the Bluetooth stuff, that isn't that much cheaper than a
Peg2 (assuming ya could get the lower power 1.25 G4 for a peg) and a
Peg2 is more expandable.

Ya could deduct just about a $100 and go with a wired keyb/mouse

The bonus you get is Panther + iLife '05...which included by default
can already do far more than Peg/MOS can at this point:

1. iMovie
2. iDVD
3. Garageband
4. iPhoto
5. Safari Web browser
6. GFX acceleration including 3D and GL
7. JAVA
8. I'm sure there's more....

[ Edited by JKD on 2005/1/11 22:34 ]

I want one. Now .... how to sell my April2 Peg1 with 256/MB Registered Corsair ram and Voodoo 3 AGP.

And my G4 Sawtooth with 576 MB ram and Radeon 7000.

Here is a great video of Steve Jobs showing it off:http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tvradio/playerfull.asp?guid={5A20C460-1E86-4448-8606-F6CFAA1E9A4C}&siteid=mktw&dist=emailBB

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Ebay them, I just sold my G4 Gigabit Ethernet and got $800 for it, and I bet i could have got a lot more, i just set the buy it now price for $800 and it went in 30 mins.

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I wanted a dedicated *nix box (was getting tired of dual-booting as there was always some program you needed from the other OS), and basically wanted something different hardware-wise.

I did consider getting a Mac, but they were too expensive and the G5 iMacs weren't out yet. Today I would probably buy a Mac Mini or a G5 iMac. Never having owned an Amiga MorphOS isn't a factor.