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I have posted about wanting a Mac before a few times, but now I am getting serious. I am duly impressed with Apple’s recent hardware offerings. It seems like almost everything the company does is a step in the right direction, at least it is in my opinion. The most recent offering from Apple that I simply cannot live without is the new MacBook. I think this would be the perfect solution to my desire for a new Mac. It has the relatively low price of the Mac Mini, the portability of the MacBook Pros and it is powered by the new Intel chips so it’s performance should be impressive. Not that the performance of the previous Macs was lagging.

I opened up the RSS feed for everyday in Apple’s Safari web browser and I was pleasantly surprised by the beautiful formatting that it applied. Click on the picture for a full size screen “grab“.

Someone, somewhere may need to install Apple’s Quicktime without installing iTunes. I personally don’t use iTunes at work, but I like to have Quicktime installed for viewing videos and whatnot on the web (especially screencasts of how to program in RubyOnRails!). So, without further adieu… here is a link to a standalone installation of Apple’s Quicktime.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html

As you may have read in a previous post, I am now working with RubyOnRails to do web development. I have watched a number of screencasts showing tutorials of how to do various things. Most of these screencasts have been made from a Mac, and they are very impressive. The GUI looks so clean and the programs they are running just look better. As a result of this I have been seriously considering purchasing a Mac. Unfortunately, Macs are expensive. Not neccesarily more expensive than a comparable wintel computer, but expensive nonetheless. One option, is the Mac Mini, they start at $499 and the fastest one is $699. Of course, as soon as I start researching the Mac Mini, I find out that Apple may annouce a new one at MacWorld next week. I really don’t want to spend money on something that may have some kick-ass upgrades (including an Intel processor) in just a few months. Of course if I always waited until the next major upgrade to purchase high tech stuff, then I would always be waiting!

via: Gizmodo

Test Drive a Mac Mini: Gizmodo

Gizmodo is reporting that Apple has a new promotion. You can test drive a Mac Mini for 30 days, if you don’t love it, send it back. This may be a good way to determine if switching to a Mac is right for you, which is something that I have been contemplating for a while now.