# To buy a mac or not? that is the question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-buy-a-mac-or-not-that-is-the-question/155405>\
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**Created:** [July 17, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-buy-a-mac-or-not-that-is-the-question/155405 "2005-07-17T10:26:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![G111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ea924/32.png) [@G111](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/G111)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/to-buy-a-mac-or-not-that-is-the-question/155405/1 "2005-07-17T10:26:49Z")

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Hi guys 🙂

I’ve been thinking about buying a mac mini for a while now its sole purpose really will be java dev and browsing the internet…but I’m still in two minds whether or not to get one. Can anyone give me a few reasons why I should…I’m being serious the feedback may cement my decision.

Also does anyone know what the name is for like a switch so I can have a 2 port serial so my monitor can be plugged into my pc and mac mini at same time…and when I switch one on I can just flip a switch or something instead of unpluggin it from my pc and swithing to the mac all the time???

cheers 🙂

p.s. does xcode 2 come with osx 10.4 as standard???