If anything I would of kept it and used it as a server. Personally I don't like macs that much but what he did makes me sad.
If you really don't like OSX you could always install linux on it.
Also when I used to do video editing on a G4 with Avid Xpress 3.5.4 It crashed a whole lot. At least once a day. But I was dealing with over 300 gb of video files over 3 firewire hard drives so I dunno.
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