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On 09/26/2009 05:38 AM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:

> I'm considering funding the design & production of a new PowerPC  
> system (well, the motherboard, the rest are typical pc stuff and a  
> case).

It might be interesting as a low-power system.  For a development box,
this looks more interesting:

http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/powerstation/specs.html

$1250 USD gets you two dual-core 2.5GHz 970MP chips.

Chris