My 17" MacBook Pro is getting on for 5 years old. It's a trooper but I am wondering about eventual replacement once this one reaches the point where it can't work well with the latest Word or Mac OS and ditto Illustrator.
I am pretty sure that, soon, I'll no longer need a portable computer for work, so a laptop won't be necessary. The principal considerations will be: 1. Can handle the latest Mac version of Word. (I would like to bury Word and piss on its grave, but my work requires Word and only Word. Open Office don't cut it.) 2. Can accept if it doesn't come stock with 4 GB of Ram. 3. Costs as little as possible. I had a very satisfactory Mac Mini (Thanks, Ryan) but gave it away to a friend; it also was 2010. Is the Mini a good candidate? 4. Available used if possible. I think my optimum desideratum would be a used -- what, late model Mini? (Something stationary) with an iPad or clone to replace laptop and Fire. Whatch'all think? -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************* *[I]n exploring the physical universe man has made no attempt to explore himself. Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to destroy consciousness. If one started by asking, what is man? what are his needs? how can he best express himself? one would discover that merely having the power to avoid work and live one’s life from birth to death in electric light and to the tune of tinned music is not a reason for doing so.”* * -- George Orwell, Pleasure Spots* *Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and it is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money. * * -- George Orwell, Keep The Apidistra Flying* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
