Apples and Chocolate

Yesterday was how all good days should be - productive and yet fun. During the day I did a lot of work on my CMS (I'm making a programming language for it!), and then Leela cooked me macaroni cheese, which was very good. Followed by chocolate pudding, also good, apart from the unwanted ice cream. After that we watched Mean Girls, which is a film about American bitchy high school girls, quite amusing.

I am also thinking about doing something I've promised myself I would never do - buying a mac. I figure I need one to test things I make that need to work on them (websites and flash projectors), and mac minis are cheap enough to be an acceptable price. The only problem is that I have no idea about mac specs. Any suggestions as to whether I should get the cheap one, the expensive one, or the cheap one and upgrade?

Comments

Andrew (not the other one)

Buy two Macs - a cheap one and an expensive one - and work out which one is better for you. Then, in a moment of bizarre generosity, give the other to me. You know it makes sense. You also know that you'll prefer the cheaper, lower-specced one.

radiac

That's a really good idea! Thanks for the help :)

JH

Noooooo... bad time to buy a mac with all these intel chip announcements.

Supposedly in 6 months the mini will be intel based leading to a rewrite of all software meaning that all pre-intel minis will be obselete.

Andrew (really, the other one)

You can't upgrade mac's - they make you buy another one. Or invalidate your warrenty. Or send it back to them and let them charge the same price as a new one to put another 128Mb of memory in it.

They're evil.

Bud

Macs rock ;-p TBH I would wait for one of the intel based ones.

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