| I'M RICH, BITCH! |
[Aug. 25th, 2005|01:22 am] |
i got my loan check today. that means...
New Mac!
i'm going to get the mac mini. its much better than the ibook i was looking at and its $600 cheaper. woo hoo! I think i'm going to give my brother my current mac. its a G3 so its pretty old. but it still works really well.
Its just that it was built in 1999 and i need a computer that will get me through grad school. i will not be IN grad school for at least a year, and most programs are three years long... that means that the G3 would be TEN years old by the time i finish. That will never do. if i get the mac mini it will only be four years old when i am finished and then i can get a newer mac when i graduate.
also, i am going to pay the next six months rent so i will not have to worry about that. um... i don't know what else i have to do... but i got it covered... the best part is... i was not ass broke by the time my check arrived. that is a first. ususally im eatin' ramen noodles out of the dumpster by the time my check gets here... all is good in the world.
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I'm a Mac-user too, yay Macs! Hey, but tell me why the Mac minis are better than the iBooks, because I'm thinking about buying an iBook, but not if the mini is better.
Its really a "for the money" type situation.
The ibooks actually have a better video card... i'll say that right off the bat. also, if you don't already have a decent moniter, you have to add that to your cost of the mini. I already have a pretty rad 17 in flat screen crt, so i don't have to buy a moniter to go with my mini... lower cost.
but... for about $444 less, i was able to get 1G of ram and an 80G hard drive with a 1.42 ghz G4 processor. this would cost $935.
for the same in the i book it would be $1,379.00. and actually... when i was comparing them 2 days ago... the only option you had on the ibook was 60g or 100g hard drive and the 100g was outragously priced... also you didn't have the option of 1.5g or ram...
if i had looked for one more day... i would have probably purchased the ibook.
rob
oh... thats the other thing... the protection plan for the ibook is about twice as much. plus the software that i needed pushed me out of my budget...
thats why i got the mini.
for a second there i was like,"hey, why did i get the mini?"
then i remembered... ibook+protection plan+software+budget=broke. | |
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