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To: vireya who wrote (103487)7/2/2019 7:50:47 PM
From: Vendit™2 Recommendations

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Don Green
goldworldnet

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I bought this Mac in December 2017 and love it. I’m Windows 10 at work and Mac at home.

MacBook Pro

Reid



To: vireya who wrote (103487)7/2/2019 8:35:56 PM
From: Don Green2 Recommendations

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vireya
Zen Dollar Round

  Respond to of 110624
 
Vireya, My suggestion was to Ron and Josh or anyone here who is really into computers. When I worked at Microsoft I first build a Hackintosh and then bought a Mac Pro because I wanted to better understand the competition and the MAC experience. It was a good process.

I showed a link to ebay and a good used Mac Store. As for by older Mac computers you don’t need the latest OS to gain experience with them, do some homework and determine what version you want or feel you want and figure out the minimum requirements for what you want. The Mac Mini will do for most users here. Myself I prefer the Mac Pro.

Don



To: vireya who wrote (103487)7/4/2019 6:07:03 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round1 Recommendation

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vireya

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That's good advice if the Mac mini (or any Mac) were to be your main computer, but as Don indicated, they're great to learn on and still quite capable machines.

The 2012 Mac mini can take up to 16GB of RAM, it's not limited to 4GB, and it can be user installed quite easily.

They also make great little media centers when attached to a TV. Just add some external storage or stream from a NAS device and away you go.