On Jan 5, 2009, at 23:05 , Ken Johnson wrote: > Well - I own a lowly Mac-Mini and I love it. For one thing, it is > much more upgradable than the iMac. I recently changed the hard > drive to a 200 GB 7200rpm unit, and before that, I increased the > RAM. Attached to it is a mini-like hard drive with built-in USB2 > and FW400 hubs. It drives a 20-in Apple display. Yes, the Mac Pro > would be even faster, but all my work (websites, photo-editing, > Office stuff, and all the web stuff) is well within its capabilities. > > I will say, though, the new hard drive did make a measurable > improvement over the too-small, 5400 rpm stock unit. > i upgraded my 24" imac's drive to a 1TB 7200rpm one and the ram to 3GB… it's been a very reliable machine, imho. regards, alexandre 17" 2.33ghz ic2d macbook pro / 2.0gb / 160gb / X.5.5 24" 2.33ghz ic2d imac / 3.0gb / 1tb / X.5.5 iphone 3G / white / 16gb