Me too. Oh yeah the 600 
I had a 500+ and a 4000 at one stage. My mate had the 1200.
Learnt to program in AmosPro and made a couple of games.
I remember printing out my artwork on our colour dot matrix. 
The A4000 got repurposed as a line tester when I studied animation. Perfect task for it. Taking shots with a vertical camera of each page. All hand drawn back then.
Get an Apple IIc, gut it (shudder) and use modern tech to retro fit it. I keep seeing retro Macs and considering it, but I can’t bring myself to ruin them. 
Amiga’s were amazing!!! Not sure how any developers made any money but amazing.
Oh yes. A classic.
Well there was a lot of piracy. Here in NZ this guy would post you a list of software. You paid $5 a disc. Put your order in and waited. You were lucky if all of them worked. 
White Lightning and Dcopy were my personal favourites. Santa used to always bring me 50 blank floppys. Mind you, it did teach me crafts when I had to replicate the spinning cardboard code display that came with my friends original copy of Zool.
When I worked at an AASP repair center, I opened a lot of these iMacs. The space where the display is from the rear housing is pretty small. If you look at the diagram, you’ll see that there are two metal hangers that the display assembly hangs on because the glass reaches the bottom instead of sitting on the chin unlike in the previous model.
Putting the logic board in that space could cause some heating issues. It would be pressed against the hot backing of the display assembly and would generate heat from the CPU/GPU heat sink on the other side.
Here’s a picture from iFixit showing how the assembly is lifted off the enclosure after cutting the adhesive. You can also see how thick the panel is compared to the chin’s covering.
Here’s a picture of how far the MLB is from the edge of the housing. It’s a bit elevated from the rear housing so the fans can pull the heat out, but the heat sink doesn’t quite reach all the way to the opening of the fans.
Sure it all just comes down to engineering and design choices based upon technical component specifications and requirements. Is it required to be as such, no :—).
Historically Apple has put the majority of emphasis on aesthetics to market and project a higher level of products thus justifying exorbitant prices. But Apple is not a leader in many areas if we look at the industry as a whole, in many regards the industry as a whole has moved beyond them aside from their adept aesthetic design, marketing and branding. Even so Apple historically does not admit fault or admit that they are lagging behind even when the entire industry is well aware of it.
But yes we can all certainly marvel at various aspects of the inward and outward aesthetics of Apple’s products. Once we are all walking around with neuralink-esqe super computers directly attached to our brains and nervous systems, humanity can then be further obsessed with the vanity of our own appearances, symmetrical chins included.
If you look at the industry as a whole you miss the point of Apple. If you look at the car industry as a whole why are there lots of different marques, doing some things better than others, and vice versa.
ZX Spectrum, yeah, my first computer !
Spent so many hours playing Knight Lore.
After loading the OS through a regular K7.
Such good memories.
Oh yes, the Amiga 600 
was also my first computer, before that I was always on my brother’s C64. How time flies.
Too good a deal, especially with replaceable SSD. Mine is on order too. Was going to buy the new iMac, but the Mini has the same spec for a lot less cash!
Hello all
i am sorry to not participate as much as some others but pretty busy with my work
but i would like to have your advices about performance on 2 models of mac mini
As my charge in term of work increased a lot, and as i was working on a workstation/hackintosh (dual boot: win 11 + OS Sequoia)
I am searching to buy a mac mini, to have the workstation (windows) let it working 24/7 (photogrammetry 3D, video on davinci, etc) and the mac mini for building website on our favorite program 
i am focusing on 2 models:
Mac mini M4 16GB / 256GB
Mac mini M4 Pro 24GB / 512GB (2 times more expensive than the 1st one)
the mac mini will be only use for BLOCS, emails, surfing etc
if you have any recommendations based on use
feel free to help me to choose 
Cheers from japan
Hi:
I have the Mac Mini M4, 24 GB Memory and 1 TB storage.
I do far more than use my mini just for Blocs, I edit video in FCP, and I have not had one problem with speed, or anything.
I would however suggest bumping the memory up to 24 GB if you can afford to do so.
Rich the Weather Guy
I confirm, I got it for my daughter. 24 is the minimum, even considering the use of AI in some Apps
Thanks for the feedbacks
Yes i agree will be great to go for 24Gb
But unfortunately right now (I don’t know if it same all around the world) in japan on Apple Store the basic 16/512 is at 5 weeks delay (nothing in stock on refurbished Apple Store)
A m4 pro or a m4 24/512 is at 10/12 weeks Delay
2nd hand store: most of them are at same price as new and nothing more than 16/256 for the mini m4
So I guess I have to buy a 16/256 at full price for a second hand 
Those delays and lack of availability are unfortunately pretty universal right now for Apple. The used market has pretty much turned into a mess also with massive price gouging occurring because of it.
Just wait until the new M5 Mac Minis will be available.
thought the same but cannot wait more (already too late in some website projects), and as i said the workstation i used before needed to be 24/7 on windows (unfortunately)
so i just bought a cheap mac mini 16/256GB with applecare+ (until january 2028) at 550 euros (105 000 yens)
as i have 1 Nvme of 4Tb and a thunderbold case, i will use it with the home folder transfered on this NVme
will be good as it is for the next gen of Mac mini
PS: i still have a MBP 2014, but BLOCS PLUS on it, it is pretty difficult
Congrats, for your specific use case that should work well for you, you would not have seen a major improvement with the M5 in daily use under your stated usage. By the time your AppleCare expires in 2028 you can look to acquire a newer version that will be a much larger leap forward, the supply crisis should also subside by then making it easier to acquire.
