Buying A Mac Today?

Gloom and doom – sayers home in on this one thing, which is the ‘fact’ that nobody will want to buy a Mac today, since Apple is going to switch to Intel chips in a year.

But the fact is, if you bought a Mac today, say a Mac mini, it would be ‘obsolete’ in a year anyway with a new, improved and faster Mac mini – regardless of who makes the chips, right?

When hasn’t this been true when buying a new Mac?

The G5 dual processor Mac we bought last year doesn’t hold a candle to the newest G5s now shipping. Neither does our iMac we bought a few months ago.

My current Macs will be two years old when Apple comes out with their first Intel Inside Macs. Then we will do the ‘dance.’ You know, the mental gymnastics people go through trying to justify buying fast and exciting new Macs while finding a place for the old ones, which are (will be) perfectly good and useful computers.

All of which goes to prove that anyone can buy a new Mac today and use it productively for a long time. Later, they can do the dance, deciding to move up or keep what they have.

There is really no reason not to buy that new Mac mini or iMac today. In fact, if you can afford it, get a new PowerMac, because it will be a lot longer before these are upgraded to Intel processors.

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