When I'd first installed Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) on the G5, I experimented briefly with the Sheepshaver emulator. Parallels 7 handled installations of Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux without a hiccup, leaving only an installation of the Mac Classic emulator, Sheepshaver, to have the Mini able to handle all my computing needs. I also installed Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) on a separate partition of the hard drive. I cloned the G5's Leopard drive to an external drive, cleaned it up there, and then cloned that to the Mini's drive before upgrading it to Snow Leopard. The transition to a mid-2010 Mac Mini really went rather well.
I'd first switched to a backup G5 that I'd used on my last job site, but eventually bought a slightly faster G5 tower for just a few bucks more than a replacement motherboard would have cost for the failed unit. I began what has turned out to be a rather long and somewhat troubled transition to modern Macs in February after my venerable G5 tower cooked its motherboard last December.
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