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Yeah shipping from the US is a killer here. You can pay it yourself or buy from someone who already paid it, but I guess you’re paying either way. The labour cost for the people doing the refurb is probably a bit higher here too. I got the imac for $840NZ (just over $500US) including apple...

Yep, the protectionist bs is why I'm looking at Linux. I don't mind macOS - except that the d***heads release new OS's that don't run on their old hardware, then stop supporting the older OS's. Mine has one more year of support I think. Luckily we have a solution... :D There will always be a...

Thanks again all. I took the plunge and got me a 2015 imac (32 GB Ram, 1TB SATA SSD, runs great). Followed youtube videos to set up a Virtualbox VM with 8GB RAM/100GB storage, and installed Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition) on that without many problems. (the VM froze halfway through the first...

Awesome, thanks everyone. I'll get started on a VM, then get another machine for a physical install if/when the issues get too annoying. Hopefully that won't be for a while. I want something that runs macOS or Windows while I get used to Linux. I mentioned the late 2015 imac because there's a...

Hi all. I'm re-training as a web developer and want to try linux. I need to buy a desktop machine and I'm not that much of a techie so I'd like some advice. The budget is fairly low for this one, I'll probably upgrade in a year or two. Is running linux on a virtual machine the way to go...