Last night kev tried to persuade me into buying a mac mini, since the flagship model has 1.8ghz Duo core processor and a slightly alright harddrive, I was very tempted to get that NOW instead of waiting for some miracle to happen in order to buy a 20 inch imac. BUt unfortunately I managed to come to my senses in terms of performance you can get with an imac compared to a mac mini. With a mac mini you’d need to have it bloated up good and proper with ram upgrades etc in order to get it to function properly.
Having additional reads I’ve also found out that macs have an emulator type thing called Rosetta which allows the macs to run applications which are native to PowerPC architectures. Now if you’re wondering why I mentioned this, after reading several reviews, it seems like Rossetta is very processor consuming, it takes more energy for it to run applications that are not Universal (runs both PowerPC and Intel) so applications such as Photoshop (which still isnt converted into a Universal Binary) will be running as slow as a green snake on a sugar cane field.
So yeah, though I wont be using photoshop (already researched on using Gimp on a mac), its not a good idea to wait a bit more until most of the applications are ported AND (more importantly) I can afford it haha.
Another good thing about stalling the time you purchase something is the fact that they upgrade every so often, If i was silly enough to have purchased a mac a few months ago, I would have got an Intel Duo Core 1 processor instead of Intel Duo Core 2 (though the performance is only improved by a tiny bit). Gargh, i just wish I had some money haha. Would like to ironically work at apple store haha (though I’d be rather arsey there, plus I’d have to travel alot to get there *sigh*)
Mmmm, Macs.