Big flipping deal. (24W * 24 hours * 30 days)/1000 is 17.28 KW used per month. On my last electricity bill adding up all the charges I pay just over 10 cents per KWhour. So you pay $1.73 a month to keep your computer on standby. I think you should be able to swing that.
Q:Does MOL run on non-Apple hardware?
A:It does. MOL runs for instance on the Pegasos board, the Teron board and on AmigaOne hardware. In short, MOL should run on any PowerPC hardware (with the except of 601-based systems). However, the EULA of MacOS prohibits its usage on non-Apple hardware (it is of course perfectly legal to use MOL to boot a second Linux though).
So yes it will most likely run on this hardware rather easily.
Another main reason that Apple may not want all these beta builds out is that they may contain features that may or may not make it into a 1.0 release. Perhaps they wanted to try out feature X (say tabs) and find that it doesn't work the way that they had planned and they don't want it in a 1.0 release. But now if they release 1.0 without a feature that has been in the seeds the public uproar will be incredible.
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Big flipping deal. (24W * 24 hours * 30 days)/1000 is 17.28 KW used per month. On my last electricity bill adding up all the charges I pay just over 10 cents per KWhour. So you pay $1.73 a month to keep your computer on standby. I think you should be able to swing that.
Another main reason that Apple may not want all these beta builds out is that they may contain features that may or may not make it into a 1.0 release. Perhaps they wanted to try out feature X (say tabs) and find that it doesn't work the way that they had planned and they don't want it in a 1.0 release. But now if they release 1.0 without a feature that has been in the seeds the public uproar will be incredible.