I'm finding myself in need of a Macintosh that can run OS X. Sadly Steve Jobs left my PowerMac 8500 out of the running for compatible machines. Even adding a G3 card and using the latest "hackerz" tools to get it on there didn't work.

So now I'm looking for a cheap (very cheap) means of an OS X box. Last I looked a few months ago there were G4 cubes selling for $600. Thanks to Sonnet and their new Cube processor upgrades, people have hiked the prices up to that of $1200 ... same as a new eMac.

I've found a place or two on the web selling logic boards for G4's for pretty cheap. But after the logic board, you have to buy an apple power supply (not cheap), a G4 processor, not cheap, G4 memory, not cheap, and an AGP card with mac drivers.

Does anyone have any ideas for a cheap student such as myself?

Greg