{"id":674,"date":"2021-06-05T22:32:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T04:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/?p=674"},"modified":"2021-06-05T22:34:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T04:34:25","slug":"considering-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Considering Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curli.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/apple_imac_original_bondi_rc.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" data-attachment-id=\"681\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/?attachment_id=681\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curli.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/apple_imac_original_bondi_rc.jpg?fit=640%2C496&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,496\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"apple_imac_original_bondi_rc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curli.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/apple_imac_original_bondi_rc.jpg?fit=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curli.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/apple_imac_original_bondi_rc.jpg?fit=640%2C496&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curli.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/apple_imac_original_bondi_rc.jpg?resize=640%2C496&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curli.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/apple_imac_original_bondi_rc.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.curli.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/apple_imac_original_bondi_rc.jpg?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The original Apple iMac launched in 1998 and ran Mac OS 8.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am considering purchasing an Apple Mac computer, one of the following choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IMac_(Apple_silicon)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple 24-inch iMac with 4.5K Retina display<\/a><\/strong> (Apple M1 chip, 16GB memory, 512GB SSD storage) <strong>$1,899.00<\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mac_Mini#Fifth_generation_(Apple_silicon)\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mac_Mini#Fifth_generation_(Apple_silicon)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Mac mini<\/a><\/strong> (Apple M1 chip, 16GB memory, 512GB SSD storage) <strong>$1,099.00<\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacBook_Pro#Sixth_generation_(Apple_Silicon)\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacBook_Pro#Sixth_generation_(Apple_Silicon)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple 13-inch MacBook Air<\/a><\/strong> (Apple M1 chip, 16GB memory, 512GB SSD storage) <strong>$1,449.00<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I honestly don&#8217;t believe this will actually happen, because we simply don&#8217;t need any more technology in our home.  I think at some point in their career, all Windows tech&#8217;s fantasize about running Apple Mac for a while.  It&#8217;s a forbidden, shiny new ecosystem that unfortunately requires all new software license purchases and learning completely new ways of doing previously similar actions.  However, extreme reliability, near immunity to malware, and a promise of things &#8220;just working&#8221; is inviting to say the least.  So will it happen?  Stay tuned I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am considering purchasing an Apple Mac computer, one of the following choices. Apple 24-inch iMac with 4.5K Retina display (Apple M1 chip, 16GB memory, 512GB SSD storage) $1,899.00 Apple Mac mini (Apple M1 chip, 16GB memory, 512GB SSD storage) $1,099.00 Apple 13-inch MacBook Air (Apple M1 chip, 16GB memory, 512GB SSD storage) $1,449.00 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/?p=674\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Considering Mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BMx4-aS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}