An Apple a day…

…keeps the property manager away?
It’d be nice if that was all it took.
Just finished all the cleaning I’m gonna do, all paved areas swept, all cobwebs vanquished, and all funny marks on carpets, benches and desktops artfully covered with something. Now I just await the inspection itself and I can get back to my life again.

On the topic of Apples – Apple’s new Mac mini has got me probably just about as close to purchasing a Mac as I’ll ever get. They sell iPods for more than that….and it’s not much bigger than one either, in fact, it weights half as much as my laptop! If I weren’t currently so burried in holiday debt, I’d have probably bought one by now.
I probably wouldn’t want to use one for a desktop machine – at least not beyond the obligatory experimenting with OS X – as for one to really be suitable for more than web browsing (I’d probably want to use it for Java development), I’d have to get more memory, and that would start pusing the price up. But as a nice little server, it’d be brilliant especially since I’m currently using two ancient machines as my servers now – a 233Mhz Pentium II, and a 350MHz K6-II. It would probably be quite a lot quieter too.

Of course theres lots of other things I want to spend money on once I get money again – upgrading Caitlin’s computer, buying more music gear, upgrading my Music computer – but it’s still very tempting. It’s probably just as well that I don’t have any money, as I might have forgotten about it by the time I do.