Holy cow, have you seen the new mini Mac?


That's about as cool as the new iPod.



I kid. I'm a kidder.

Seriously, though, the new Mac's pretty amazing. Um ... it's small. About the size of two CD cases stacked. Plus FireWire ports.  Plus 40 Gb of memory - twice what I have now. Plus, I hope, the new OSX version (codenamed Tiger) when it's released later this year.

I was reading some business analysis that said a lower-priced Mac was a bad idea, because instead of attracting first-time Windows weitchers, the main buyers would Mac users who were downgrading to the cheap model.

Well, here's my scenario. I have owned three Macs in my life. (Four Apple computers, but the first one was an Apple IIe.) Two were hand-me-downs from my brother. One was a refurbished Mac that I bought at Re-PC. I have never owned a new Mac. Now that there's one at an affordable price, I will almost certainly purchase my first new computer sometime within the next year.


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