The conventional wisdom is that Macs are expensive. Microsoft ads make a big deal about how much more computer you can get for the money. Nonsense. Actually, you can get a perfectly good Mac for cheap: the Mac mini, which can do everything its bigger, more expensive, brothers do for a lot less.
The bottom of the line Mac mini comes with a 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, and NVIDIA GeForce 940DM graphics. The price? $599.
That may not sound like much of a machine, but that’s only because most of you have been using Windows. On Windows, this would make for a pathetic Vista or Windows 7 PC, or an OK Windows XP system. With Mac OS X Leopard, and the soon-to-arrive Snow Leopard, that’s more than fast enough hardware for a great computing experience.
That’s not just theory. I’ve been running a Mac mini with the stats for the last few months and I like it a lot. While I prefer desktop Linux for most uses, I’m a software pragmatist. I like programs that do their job and do them well. For what I want from a Mac, the mini is great.
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