I want to explore OS X Tiger without spending a fortune. Unfortunately, the cheapest mac I could buy would be a $600.00 CAD mac mini ( no add-ons, just bare-bones minimum ). The price tag hardly convinces me to pursue my curiosity further. Is there any way I can "experience" apple without paying up-wards of $600.00?

PPC emulator + OSX downloaded from
But it's slowwwwwwwwwwwwww.....

yer, go to an Apple store and try one out. or install PearPC on your Windows/Linux computer and buy a copy of Tiger.


I suggest going to an Apple store and spending an hour there on one of there Mac's try out the search the way things are laid out the speed open loads of applications at once do all kinds of things to really feel the Mac out and remember they all have Internet access, check ya email surf the web, you might come away loving it or hating it.

wait a few more months til xbox 2.. i mean "360" comes out, and if im not mistaken its going to be running G5 processors(or somthing simillar.. thats what ive heard), and in that case within a month there will be a hack to get Tiger working on it, then ya got a xbox "360" and a tiger box

also if you are at a uni/college you could check and see if they have a computer lab with macs, many do, or even a local public library, but an apple store or compusa or other reseller is a great place to go

well you could get an older mac on ebay or something. some mac with a g4 and at least 700mhz. you can stick in more ram to 512 or 1gb and make sure it has a dvd drive

ebay is probably your best place to get one. I was going to tell you that you should apply for the credit card offering that Apple is doing, but its only for US.

They are running PowerPC processors, the core of the G5. They are NOT running G5s. There is a significant number of differences between the two chips.
That's like saying Darwin is OS X.

There is a new apple store that just recently opened at the Yorkdale Mall in Toronto. Maybe I'll go and look for a while.
Thanks for all the advice

you could get an used Mac on eBay.

Ok that is probably the most ridiculous thing I have heard this week. They might be running the same architecture but the xbox will never ever run OS X. It is impossible to say the least and really it would take too much time to explain.

i applied for that its taking forever to get a reply for my apple credit card. it should have been instant since i have a really good credit history.

Never say never. People used to say that it would never be possible to emulate a PowerPC Mac on the PC, but it happened (people have even managed to boot PearPC on a modified XBox running Linux). Just think what people could do with something much closer to the native architecture.