[fpc-pascal] Which Mac?

[Richard Ward]

Your least expensive option would probably b a mac mini if like  
someone else said, you already have a monitor, usb keyboard and mouse,  
external hard drives etc.   If not, then the iMac is a better value  
since it includes a monitor.   If you don't need to be backwards  
compatible, get the latest intel CPU as the dual core intel cpu makes  
for a much snappier system than the ppc version especially if you are  
running CPU intensive applications in parallel.   I have found that  
there are differences sometimes in compiled Carbon GUI applications  
between OS 10.4 and 10.5. so if that is critical, get and old PPC cpu  
similar to your client's.   Or you could ask someone on the Mac Pascal  
list to try it out for you if it is not an overly complex app.   You  
probably want to get on that list as well.  This thread can be  
offloaded from this list to that one.

Here is a links page I created which might be of some use for you  
including Ingemar Ragnemalm's Lightweight IDE which has a lot smaller  
learning curve than Apple's X-Code.    There is another free 3rd party  
IDE as well that looks promising, Pascal Gladiator, which includes a  
debugger, but I haven't used it yet and Ingemar's is a bit more  
finished except for a debugger.  Ingermar's IDE is bundled with a  
bunch of GUI source code/applications as well.

http://web.mac.com/roward/A_Musing_Rumination/Pascal.html

Richard Ward