house of warwick: RetroBox Revealed. Steve bought an old PowerMac G3 for $100 that he plans to use for iLife-related tasks. RetroBox has a great business model—how many of us are doing things that require a 1GHz processor? How many of us couldn’t use an extra machine somewhere?
I’ve been struggling to figure out how to manage my burgeoning MP3 collection, and putting a $200 or $300 G4 on the home network to house a full digital jukebox, maybe backup services, and other odds and ends sounds like just the ticket. Ironically, the only problem is figuring out the monitor situation. I love not having that extra CRT around. Maybe I could manage the machine entirely through VNC? Probably not—there are always some initial setup tasks before you get the VNC server running…