You can get an old iMac on Ebay for less than $200: http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?cgiurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2F&krd=1&from=R8&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=iMac
You don't need anything more if you're just going to be testing web pages. That, and you can get a moderately more expensive one with OS X if you want to check modern performance (have to be OS X.2 for Safari). Apple doesn't release an OS for x86 so they don't have to deal with a bazillion components and associated drivers. It's like complaining you can't install IRIX on your old Compaq to see how your site looks in Netscape on it. - Jim Benjamin S. Rogers wrote: >>>>Win IE5.5 required = unusable. >>>> >>>> >>... by about 5% users... >> >> > >Even less, last time I looked. And then divide that by all of the >various browsers used on the Mac (Safari, several different Gecko based >browsers, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc.). To further complicate things, >we can't just install a Mac OS onto an old x86 box for testing purposes >(or, even better, use Virtual PC). Instead, we would have to invest a >substantial amount of money into a machine we have no intention of using >for anything else. > >In the end, we try to design our sites to be as standards compliant as >possible, try to make them degrade as gracefully as possible in older >browsers (Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4, etc.), and hope for the best >everywhere else. Of course, the first two are often mutually exclusive. >In which case, standards be damned, we're going to make our customers' >sites look as good as possible in as many browsers as we reasonably can. > >Benjamin S. Rogers >http://www.c4.net/ >v.508.240.0051 >f.508.240.0057 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
