I'm going to buy one of the other. Here are my concerns:
My laptop experiences over the last 10 years have not been positive. They tend to live 2 years, cost a premium, are difficult to upgrade, and quickly seem to develop glitches (dead pixels, screen cards that don't work...) And - it seems every repair requires a whole new motherboard. Just my personal beef. However, the mobility is very nice.
OR -
I could buy the imac - get a larger screen - better price... yadda yadda - but - is it any easier to upgrade? I will now be locked in one location.
Lastly, I've been told NOT to buy at an apple store for the primary reason that they charge more for simple things like memory upgrades than if you buy it on line configured that way. Is this true?
I bought 2 mac mini's last month (one for me - one for a friend - and love it - but find it a bit slow even with the 2gig memory upgrade when working in photo applications like GIMP.
Ideally I'd love it if someone made a mac server with little dumb terminals in laptopform that you couldhave so that you could move all arounmd the house and have one server for like 3 users without all the overhead of CPU, memory etc. It would only need to act like webex - ... would drive down acquisition costs and in the end would sell more units. But alas - that model seems to fizzle everytime someon tries it.
My laptop experiences over the last 10 years have not been positive. They tend to live 2 years, cost a premium, are difficult to upgrade, and quickly seem to develop glitches (dead pixels, screen cards that don't work...) And - it seems every repair requires a whole new motherboard. Just my personal beef. However, the mobility is very nice.
OR -
I could buy the imac - get a larger screen - better price... yadda yadda - but - is it any easier to upgrade? I will now be locked in one location.
Lastly, I've been told NOT to buy at an apple store for the primary reason that they charge more for simple things like memory upgrades than if you buy it on line configured that way. Is this true?
I bought 2 mac mini's last month (one for me - one for a friend - and love it - but find it a bit slow even with the 2gig memory upgrade when working in photo applications like GIMP.
Ideally I'd love it if someone made a mac server with little dumb terminals in laptopform that you couldhave so that you could move all arounmd the house and have one server for like 3 users without all the overhead of CPU, memory etc. It would only need to act like webex - ... would drive down acquisition costs and in the end would sell more units. But alas - that model seems to fizzle everytime someon tries it.