Hey Jesse,
Just my two bits -- I've been writing Cocoa apps on a lowly Mac Mini
with only 1GB of RAM -- and while a little slow it's more than enough
for me to create and test my apps. You should be able to rock the
casba on a Mini with 2GB RAM or more! However, my domain of interest
is primarily web and financial stuff -- not games or graphics rendering.
The iMacs, indeed, are beautiful machines. But caveat emptor -- if the
display happens to fail, you'll be in for a costly fix without
AppleCare (as I learned). I owned one of the older models for about 1
year until it started exhibiting some GPU overheating glitch (so I was
told?) that made it pretty much unusable -- the Apple folks fixed it
by swapping out the video card, but couldn't guarantee the problem
wouldn't reoccur. Sure enough, a month or so later, it did ... so now
the iMac sits in my closet and I live my life entirely on the Mini.
Although I loved the iMac when it worked ... if you're concerned with
replacing components that could possibly fail over time, go with the
Mini. Or, perhaps, the moral of the story is simply to get AppleCare,
no matter which machine you choose ; )
Hope this helps,
-Ryan.
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