Jeff over on The Shape of Days was "browsing" Macs;

$4,919: "Let me make this clear right here and right now: I have no reason to buy a new computer right now. The one I have does everything I want, and will continue to do everything I want for the foreseeable future.

But there's just one thing, just one little thing, that my computer can't do. I don't need it, it won't help me, but it sort of sits there, just out of reach, mocking me."(Via The Shape of Days.)

Yes, I just recently had a moment like that myself, as I observed J's new Mac Mini kicking my "Sawtooth" G4's butt running Unreal Tournament 2004. It was somewhat humbling. When you're sitting in front of a system that has 1Gb+ RAM and something like 1TB of storage and a $600 Mac Mini kicks it's ass, well, clearly action must be taken.

First, I considered getting a Mac Mini just to play games on. Not a bad plan, in some ways, considering my existing system has grown to the above in a rather haphazard fashion.

Secondly, I thought; well, what if I spend the equivalent of buying a Mac Mini? Where does that get me? Honestly, it gets me pretty far, from what I can tell. I'll post more once I finalize, but the CPU and Video card upgrades are pretty affordable these days.

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