$180 and long live towery

$180 is the price that i will pay for my new computer. after a year or so of pondering, i decided that i was going to upgrade my desktop Mac. i looked into the price that my dual 867 MHz tower was going for on eBay, and i saw that it was pretty close to the same that i would pay for the top of the line mac mini (1.42 GHz). i dug out the original discs and some old software that i haven't used in a while plus some old USB 1.1 hubs, and listed it all. a bidder from colorado used a BIN and paid within minutes of the auction end. soooo, my final cost for the new machine, a new applecare agreement (still yet to purchase but included in the $180), and a usb 2.0 hub is approx $180. considering the hub was about $50 of that, i think that is a pretty good deal all around for replacing my 3 year old computer.

this was also a good move because space is a big issue in my part of the office. the change will take me from a 42 lb machine to a 2.9 lb machine. even though i was going from a very upgradeable machine to one that really can't be upgraded, i have yet to upgrade any of my macs other than to add a wi-fi card or extra memory. this new one comes with wi-fi onboard, and 512MB of memory. the jump from the dual 867 to the 1.42 is huge. i feel it much more at home than i did at the store while i was playing with it. this one runs much faster even though it has less memory. the timing was also great because the tower's applecare runs out on 10/2. repairing an out-of-warranty mac can get very expensive very quickly.

gained: processor speed, onboard bluetooth, onboard wi-fi, a superdrive, and a ton more space
lost: more upgradeable, slower, larger machine w/ a combo drive and my old bluetooth adapter

so, i say farewell to my beloved towery. LONG LIVE TOWERY!