Things to do with older Macs.

Dedicate it as a secondary machine. Wipe the drive, install Leopard (combo 10.5.2), strip down the software and turn it into a 24-hour mobile torrent media downloading streaming bedside server that syncs with your phone. Add a browser, Hotspot Shield, Transmission, Cabos, iTunes (if you want/can), VLC, and a software alarm clock with NetNewsWire, good to go. Morning notes, calendar, wake-up podcasts, video. I just need to move the coffee maker over here and get a little set of plug-in speakers. A good starter before moving on to the main machine and heading for the shower and out the door. I don't watch a lot of TV, but you could hook it up to that too, and play your stuff there.

Late-2005 iBook G4, 1.42 gHz PPC, 80 GB HD, maxed at 1.5 GB RAM. Can't use my Apple Remote with it, but you can do Front Row. Machine's been all over the place, a true network whore.

Sweet retro. Try it with Vista on a machine of this age. From wipe to final setup was two hours, but I loaded it up with video, too, and I'm a picky bastard.