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<blockquote data-quote="Aussie" data-source="post: 1695199"><p>It isn't often i feel i can contribute something. I certainly don't have the knowledge of most of the people who have replied, i have read a number of the responses and you have been given good advice. It can get overloaded. I would like to give my experience. I have a mini in the house in fairly regular use. It's a mid 2007 model, recently upgraded to 10.7 which is as far as it can go but that will be useful for some time yet. I see you as a someone starting out on macs and you don't need to fly too high. I started 10 years ago on very old original , coloured , G3 iMacs that had been abandoned to a recycle shop, they were wonderful and even though everyone else was ahead of me i could still do a lot. All my macs have been 2nd hand or cast offs. I currently use ( in addition to the mini ) a 2006 iMac ( 4,1) can only run 10.6 but i'm attached to it. Sitting beside me is a bigger computer with Yosemite installed but i can't be bothered with it. Granddaughter uses it for Minecraft. I'll use it when i have to. As for safety, i never considered this a problem. Have done all sorts of payments. I have a variety of passwords and don't store them. So far macs are still safer than windows but applying commonsense to operation is the most important factor. The person who told you to avoid the PowerPC chip was spot on ,Apple moved to Intel. My mini is an Intel, the other good advice was the amount of RAM, i would say 2gb minimum in smaller computers, some have a maximum they can accept and still function properly. I was advised by an upgrade company that my iMac couldn't take more than 2gb but they advised a different type of RAM from the ones i had so i changed to that. Maybe you could still consider a mac alongside windows and don't worry too much about what you get other than Intel processor and make yourself aware of the largest system that can be run on anything you buy. You don't need to be up to date by the sound of it for what you want and don't try and upgrade systems without learning what the system requirements are. As for throwing them at all walls or out the door.. A lot of us have felt that way but often it is due to our lack of knowledge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aussie, post: 1695199"] It isn't often i feel i can contribute something. I certainly don't have the knowledge of most of the people who have replied, i have read a number of the responses and you have been given good advice. It can get overloaded. I would like to give my experience. I have a mini in the house in fairly regular use. It's a mid 2007 model, recently upgraded to 10.7 which is as far as it can go but that will be useful for some time yet. I see you as a someone starting out on macs and you don't need to fly too high. I started 10 years ago on very old original , coloured , G3 iMacs that had been abandoned to a recycle shop, they were wonderful and even though everyone else was ahead of me i could still do a lot. All my macs have been 2nd hand or cast offs. I currently use ( in addition to the mini ) a 2006 iMac ( 4,1) can only run 10.6 but i'm attached to it. Sitting beside me is a bigger computer with Yosemite installed but i can't be bothered with it. Granddaughter uses it for Minecraft. I'll use it when i have to. As for safety, i never considered this a problem. Have done all sorts of payments. I have a variety of passwords and don't store them. So far macs are still safer than windows but applying commonsense to operation is the most important factor. The person who told you to avoid the PowerPC chip was spot on ,Apple moved to Intel. My mini is an Intel, the other good advice was the amount of RAM, i would say 2gb minimum in smaller computers, some have a maximum they can accept and still function properly. I was advised by an upgrade company that my iMac couldn't take more than 2gb but they advised a different type of RAM from the ones i had so i changed to that. Maybe you could still consider a mac alongside windows and don't worry too much about what you get other than Intel processor and make yourself aware of the largest system that can be run on anything you buy. You don't need to be up to date by the sound of it for what you want and don't try and upgrade systems without learning what the system requirements are. As for throwing them at all walls or out the door.. A lot of us have felt that way but often it is due to our lack of knowledge. [/QUOTE]
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