{"id":1712,"date":"2019-11-19T14:56:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2025-01-12T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:31:44","slug":"i-can-no-longer-afford-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"I can no longer afford a Mac&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Any Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mini-300x126.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mini-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mini-768x322.png 768w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mini.png 1006w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/imac-300x147.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/imac-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/imac-768x376.png 768w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/imac.png 1006w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mbp-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mbp-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mbp-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/mbp.png 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh well. Maybe I&#8217;ll just upgrade my old gaming PC (about $1000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update: I can&#8217;t afford a Mac Pro either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/macpro.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"910\" height=\"496\" data-id=\"2872\" src=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/macpro.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/macpro.png 910w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/macpro-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/macpro-768x419.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 910px) 100vw, 910px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any Mac. Oh well. Maybe I&#8217;ll just upgrade my old gaming PC (about $1000). Update: I can&#8217;t afford a Mac Pro either:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}