My current PC is well over 8 years now, and the slow hard disk is reading bits at such a slow rate that it hasn't become fun anymore. So the option was to either replace the drive with some NVME SSD, or lookout for a new PC. At some point I saw a second hand iMac for sale for a sweet price, and decided to grab it: I've become more and more charmed of MacOS as a development platform, and I recently purchased an el cheapo 2013 Macbook Air as well, which runs nicely the latest MacOS versions thanks to OCLP.


The retina display and the small form factor (well, at least compared against a full blown desktop tower) are the strong points of this machine. The i5 Intel performs still nicely (no need for fast CPU cycles) and the Fusion Drive SSD/HDD combo is still an improvement from the hard disk setup of my old PC.


The sheer size of the 27 inch screen made me dub the PC 'Battlestar Galactica'. Starship names for computers (the Macbook Air is hostnamed 'Rocinante'), and (science fiction) planet names for access point SSID names is a sweet combo.