$500 Macintosh???

[Wayne Luke]

Seems rumors are abounding that Apple is going to make a more affordable iMac in 2005.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/31/technology/apple.reut/?cnn=yes

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/10537236.htm?1c

[Zachery]

That'd be nice

[Dean C]

Oh don't tease me Always wanted a mac.

[filburt1]

Really underpowered though. You need 512 MB bare minimum, 1 GB for smooth performance.

But for people in web design who need to test pages in Safari and such, it could work.

[SFishy]

512 minimum? Where did you get that idea? I have 3 macs in this house, all running OS X and one is a 6-year-old I-mac with 256 megs of ram. Macs do well the way they manage memory usage, so I'm not sure what you mean that anyone needs a "minimum" of 512 megs of ram. I suppose it depends on what you're doing with it.

Not to mention, RAM is SOOOOO cheap these days, you could still build a a fairly inexpensive system with a good amount of RAM.

[chrispadfield]

A good idea, I am sure there will be a bunch of web developers who get one for proper site testing as well as some of the other things that macs do better. I have often wondered why MAC dosen't push the "2nd computer" thing a bit more - a bit like the Gamecube console - this could be a good start.

[cirisme]

Oh don't tease me Always wanted a mac.

Me, too. I've been contemplating getting a nice dual G5 system, but simply can't justify the cost. This would be perfect for me.

[Zachery]

Me, too. I've been contemplating getting a nice dual G5 system, but simply can't justify the cost. This would be perfect for me.

Ditto, I've evne though about a regular iMac but cant justify the costs.. :/

[Mike Anime]

Ditto, I've evne though about a regular iMac but cant justify the costs.. :/

bill it as a buisness expense. just say you need it to do your mod work faster.

[Zachery]

Well I also can't afford to shell out the 1400 all at once

[Andrew111888]

The eMac is running for under a grand now.

My eMac is a few years old, 700mhz processor with 256MB ram, but within the next couple days I think I'm going to buy a 512MB stick to boost me up to 640.

[Mike Anime]

The eMac is running for under a grand now.

My eMac is a few years old, 700mhz processor with 256MB ram, but within the next couple days I think I'm going to buy a 512MB stick to boost me up to 640.

why not just get a 1GB stik of ram?

[Zachery]

Overkill for that old of a system unless he is running Photoshop

[Mike Anime]

Overkill for that old of a system unless he is running Photoshop

that reminds me i need to redownload that puppy i just found my good LEGIT serial number.............. thank goodness i keep copies of that on paper.

[Dan]

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