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Chaos · 01-12-2005, 08:18 PM

Yes, the Macs-are-alot-more-expensive myth is even less true now. $500 for that machine is reasonable. Most people wouldn't need much more, except maybe a bump up in the RAM (the Mac Mini can take up to 1GB - 512MB should be enough in a Mac for most people though - my PowerBook usually uses about 400MB RAM, out of 1.25GB doing webbrowsing, light gaming, coding...).

The 40 or 80Gb disk is very reasonable. On my 80GB PowerBook drive, I've still got 57GB free. So OS X is pretty good on disk space too.

The 1.25/1.42 Ghz G4 is very reasonable too. On a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook, I've got plenty of power to do the things I mentioned before (webbrowsing, light gaming, etc.).

It's pretty much a Powerbook in a different form factor.

And I was mistaken in the original post. The DVD burning SuperDrive is available as an option.

01-12-2005, 08:18 PM	#8
Chaos Evangelist Posts: 418 Karma: 281 Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Device: Assorted older devices	Yes, the Macs-are-alot-more-expensive myth is even less true now. $500 for that machine is reasonable. Most people wouldn't need much more, except maybe a bump up in the RAM (the Mac Mini can take up to 1GB - 512MB should be enough in a Mac for most people though - my PowerBook usually uses about 400MB RAM, out of 1.25GB doing webbrowsing, light gaming, coding...). The 40 or 80Gb disk is very reasonable. On my 80GB PowerBook drive, I've still got 57GB free. So OS X is pretty good on disk space too. The 1.25/1.42 Ghz G4 is very reasonable too. On a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook, I've got plenty of power to do the things I mentioned before (webbrowsing, light gaming, etc.). It's pretty much a Powerbook in a different form factor. And I was mistaken in the original post. The DVD burning SuperDrive is available as an option.