You might want to consider picking up a MacBook on Craigslist, or something like that. You can get a lot of only slightly vintage computer for $5-700.
Cary Random ad: 13 MacBook ProTurbo 2.9GHz i5 Dual-core ϟ Thunderbolt! + 500GB Storage - $499 (Los Angeles) make / manufacturer: Apple MacBook Pro size / dimensions: 13" Up for sale my 13-inch Macbook Pro with free $40 case 2.3GHz Turbo 2.9Ghz 500GB Storage 4GB Ram DDR3 Thunderbolt USB FireWire > On Apr 6, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Francis Kayiwa <kay...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Terry Reese (thanks Terry if you are reading this) has offered to write a > Object-C version of MarcEdit. In order to this he needed access to a Apple > Hardware. While my initial proposal on Go Fund me below was for a Macbook > Pro, we've since realized it need not be a portable device. My current > arithmetic puts the price of this at ~US$1300 as opposed to the listed > ~US$2400 > > > Thanks for boosting this signal if you cannot otherwise help fund porting > MarcEdit for the Mac OSX platform. > > http://www.gofundme.com/qtbzq4 > > > Cheers, > ./fxk > -- > Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient. Don't believe a > thing he tells you.