it's running suprisingly well, although i need to take my 512mb ram from my pc and replace it with the 256mb it came with. didn't want to do the upgrade from the shop since you lose the 256mb that's already in the machine.

for me its hard to say how good / bad it compares to the pc, i am still re-learning how a mac works.. shouldn't take long..

in the end... (when i get a better mac) this will serve as a streambox instead of my pinnacle showcenter (that i hate beyond anything).

if you have a fast PC with lots of RAM you can test pearpc on linux or windoz or cherryOS (demo) which is tweaked to run faster when emulated.
MACOSX panther images can be found on piratebay.org.