Mac mini for home

ranmyaku said:

Currently have a Lenovo PC running 64 bit Win 7, 3.1GHz Intel core i3, 8 Gb of Ram.

I bought a Macbook Air in 2012 (Intel core i7 with 8Gb of ram, 256 GB SSD) and use mavericks.

Before this purchase I had been a diehard PC person but I've been converted over the last couple years of using this machine. I've had no problems with it at all, and it has been plenty fast and ultra-portable.

I want to get rid of my home windows computer and get a mac of some variety. I can buy a Mac Mini A1347 Desktop - MD387LL/A (October, 2012) for $425. It has 4 Gb of Ram and a 2.5 GHz Intel core i5.

The main use of the home computer will just be web browsing, using itunes, watching movies, some light photoshop work.

This a good deal on a Mini ?

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ranmyaku said:

Great.

I'm going to upgrade to 16 Gb of Ram I think. My wife sometimes does some work related stuff at home using autocad, 3ds max, and photoshop on large files.

Its pretty cheap on amazon and I have like 50 dollars in gift credits so it can be had for under 100 buck when i use this.

Was looking at SSD drives but I'll probably hold off for now, since I was trying to not spend more then like 500 or so total on the machine.

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