# Which Mac to buy?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-mac-to-buy/237234>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 30, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-mac-to-buy/237234 "2004-03-30T03:16:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-mac-to-buy/237234/21 "2004-03-31T18:35:21Z")

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> [@Fat Bald Guy](#):
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> The only Mac I would consider buying is a Big Mac. 😃

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

Thanks for posting, bye now.

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-mac-to-buy/237234/22 "2004-03-31T18:59:01Z")

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Oh dear - sometimes bad eyesight can be fun - I read the thread title as “which Mac to buRy”. I do hope no burying is needed.

🙂

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-mac-to-buy/237234/23 "2004-03-31T19:27:18Z")

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> [@yosemitebabe](#):
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> I got my iMac at [www.clubmac.com](http://www.clubmac.com), where I paid the typical retail price, _but_ I got free extra RAM. (They did charge an installation fee of $30-40, though.) Last I checked, both clubmac or [www.macmall.com](http://www.macmall.com) still have a free RAM offer, and it seems like the almost always do.

That’s the big incentive for buying a new Mac from a third-party dealer, instead of Apple directly – everyone sells at about the same price, due to Apple’s “suggested retail price” guidelines, but the third parties are willing to throw in various freebies to get your business. Getting extra memory, a free printer, and a free laptop case is not something to sneeze at. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-mac-to-buy/237234/24 "2004-04-01T03:17:43Z")

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I’ve got an eMac, and I’m happy with it, but I’m not doing anything major-- the odd bit of sound and photo edting, in addition to the usual internet browsing, accounting, and writing.

The first extra RAM chip I got was incompatible, but since then everything has been smooth.

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