Your least expensive option would probably b a mac mini if like
someone else said, you already have a monitor, usb keyboard and mouse,
external hard drives etc. If not, then the iMac is a better value
since it includes a monitor. If you don't need to be backwards
compatible, get the latest intel CPU as the dual core intel cpu makes
for a much snappier system than the ppc version especially if you are
running CPU intensive applications in parallel. I have found that
there are differences sometimes in compiled Carbon GUI applications
between OS 10.4 and 10.5. so if that is critical, get and old PPC cpu
similar to your client's. Or you could ask someone on the Mac Pascal
list to try it out for you if it is not an overly complex app. You
probably want to get on that list as well. This thread can be
offloaded from this list to that one.
Here is a links page I created which might be of some use for you
including Ingemar Ragnemalm's Lightweight IDE which has a lot smaller
learning curve than Apple's X-Code. There is another free 3rd party
IDE as well that looks promising, Pascal Gladiator, which includes a
debugger, but I haven't used it yet and Ingemar's is a bit more
finished except for a debugger. Ingermar's IDE is bundled with a
bunch of GUI source code/applications as well.
http://web.mac.com/roward/A_Musing_Rumination/Pascal.html
Richard Ward
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