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Yeah, I am pretty unhappy to see a perfectly functional classic machine like this not only gutted but having its original, functioning motherboard cut apart so he could use the power button from it. Now the old and increasingly-rare logic board cannot be used for a replacement for another system (I was reading the thread really hoping he gave away the logic board to someone who needed it).

These iMac G4s still run Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD (and of course OS X) very happily, and are very nice machines to run those OSes on (I run OpenBSD on one of mine, and OS X on another). Soon the "new" M1 hardware inside will be just as obsolete. Still, whatever, it's his computer to butcher I guess, and the overall stock appearance was retained well. I just don't personally like the destruction of somewhat rare, working hardware.