Ugh...I need a Mac

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Ok…as much as I hate to say it I need a Mac. I have a great laptop that I want to keep but I now am stuck between a rock and a hard place.

I do development in Windows (Visual studio) so I need a Windows capable PC and am porting a bunch of apps over to Mac along with some new development with some people and doing it in a VM is just not going to work anymore. OSx86 does not install properly on my laptop due to some unsupported hardware so my options are this.

I can get easily $1000 for my laptop now.

A) Find a cheap Intel based laptop that is capable of running OSx86 and being stable ($500? out of pocket)

B) Buy a Mac Mini and use it for my media server plans and also development ($599 out of pocket)

C) Sell my laptop and use the money towards a mac book pro and dual boot windows 7 and Mac OSX ($2800 - $1000 = $1800 out of pocket)

Any suggestions?

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Get a mini 9. They are VERY compatible. The 10 probably is too.

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You know where you can get them on sale. :slight_smile:

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this is bad news?

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The Mini 9 is awesome. I own one. But they are getting phased out. The Mini 10 is nice, but they will have a lot more features most likely in May, so I’d wait on one of those if you are planning on getting one.

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I could sell mine :slight_smile:

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Which one? Any chance at a Mini?

What Mini is on the Apple site now?

I also found a lot of people found that the Dell Mini with a 10" screen has installed OSx86 right out of the box with no problems. The 10" one runs about 399

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With new features, may come new hardware. It could make it incompatible. Certainly could go either way. The current models make an AWESOME OS X netbook though, really.

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My friend is selling a Mac Mini for $200

Copy Pasted from another forum

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If it runs the latest version of OSX i will take it

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that will run leopard no problem

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FearBefore128: I will take it if it runs the latest version of OSX.

Is he in rochester or Buffalo

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Will this be able to handle high def media too such as playing BluRay rips?

Thanks

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MAYBE

BIG MAYBE

edit: lets put it this way. If I was confident that it might, I would have snagged it out from underneath you.

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Eh oh well. I just need a development environment. I have a month to release two apps and the VM environment shit is killing me.

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Interesting. That will for sure run the newest OSX ?

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That mini for $200 is a steal. It needs 1GB of ram without a doubt, but the rest of it is acceptable. Its a older machine, but its not bad.

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I run the newest leopard on my ibook g4, 512mb of ram.

It runs better than tiger!!

OS X is actually a fairly light OS. Doesn’t take much to do day-to-day tasks on one.

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for everyone else interested, if I find out things fall through with Boxxa i’ll PM you the sellers email

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Boxxa. if your not interested LMK, I have cash :wink: