Thursday, February 17, 2005

I've Succumbed

To the lure of the Mac Mini. I've paid my £340 pounds, and a further £280 for a 19 inch monitor and am now very poor, but kinda happy.
For
  • All my developer mentors use Mac
  • I am an old Zealot
  • It's not that much more expensive than a PC, and much smaller (portable even...)
  • Plays DVDs
  • MOX is quite mature, and with www.asktog.com's recommendations, usable
  • UNIX based - so Ruby et al are working 'natively'
  • There's a magazine I just bought with the three Marathon games on it
Against
  • I don't need it - will I use it?
  • Upgrade sux
    • memory is going to cost me anoth £170 when it comes through because there is only one slot
    • the memory on the graphics card is not updgradable, and the next version of the OS has special features that would require more than 64Mb....
  • I could use the money for
    • holidays
    • pay back mum and dad
    • pay off some of my enormous loan
    • invest in another property over here with a friend of Murray's
    • a guitar
  • I will be enticed to spend money on other, related things (TV tuner for example)
  • I am succumbing to the consumer mentality
How can I justify? I must get a ROI of £700, or about 43 hours of work
  • I must commit myself to developing my topsecret website, and then getting Murray (you listening?) to launch it for me. Yes Muz, you are the business man and I am a coder.
  • I will get involved in the Ruby community, including attending the RubyConf and possibly the OSCon
  • I will persue extra-curricular work involving the skillz I will learn in this process.
Well, psychologists say that you are 80% more likely to do something if you write it down, and now it is out there for you all to bug me about, so I have to. Yay

(BTW Jo, the above thinking is why it took me soooo long to make my purchase - 43 hours is a lot of my time to spend on something)

posted by toast at 6:38 AM

1 Comments:

Blogger M said...

as long as you didn't spend 43 hours deliberating on the purchase. we (purchasing gurus) recommend spending upto 10% of the value of significant purchases on the planning and procurement phase. so in your case, about 4.3 hours.... (but including transaction costs such as credit card fees and transport) :-)

topsecret website? keep us posted! oh, and sorry to Murray if one of my earlier comments offended. I'm sure we've met somewhere before.... maybe theatresports?

also, thanks for your readership. I may not reply to all of your comments, but I read every one of them.

1:33 PM  

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