Using Core Duo Mac Mini

[SimonUK5]

Been offered a Core Duo 1.66Ghz Mac Mini, with a 60gb HDD and 2gb of Ram for £150. Tempted to get it, for times like iḿ stuck in now, and my Stupid MBP is being fixed by Apple all the time

Will put Snow Leopard on it, and just run it for Pages, Safari, Mail and iTunes.

Might get a small SSD for it too.

Worth getting?

 

[jmck]

oof

Can't speak to the price relative to the market, but I still have a slightly newer mini in use driving a TV and stereo. Also running Snow Leopard. I have slightly more ram and it's the 1.83 Ghz Core 2 Duo, but I suspect most things except streaming movies (or even viewing youtube) would work fine for you.

 

[ivnj]

I had the same machine. Sold it on ebay for 175. Good machine but I wanted to be up to date. So I sold it and got a 2011 the latest. But for your needs it should be ok. Even firefox goes all the way back to 10.5 so you're good.