Is that before or after patching?

We certainly live in interesting times

Any current Mac will do. Just make sure you are on Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.x) in case you buy second hand. I personally use a Mac Mini and a Macbook Pro for all of my stuff with OSX 10.6.3. For Mac and i* development you will require xcode which comes free (it's on the OSX install disk). Then you need to register with the Apple iPhone developer portal in order to get the SDK for i*. There are two different levels of developer memberships to consider - free, which gives you the SDK with emulators but not the ability to push apps to your devices or the ability to publish to the AppStore, or a USD 99 yearly membership which enables you to put apps on your devices as well as submitting apps to the store. OSX is *nix underpinned - so many things are there already (gcc etc). You can run a number of development tools in OSX itself such as Eclipse. Pre-built stacks (MAMP) are available etc. For "proper" platform development for Linux/Solaris/Microsoft I use virtual machines. In this case VMWare (version 3.1 is a must for performance), but Parallels and VirtualBox are alternatives. I code for Wintel/Novell/Suse/RedHat/Solaris/Mac OSX/Apple iP* using only the two machines. Hope this helps.

propodean - a podean who lost his amateur status

I did a bit number crunching with regards to CO2 sometime ago. CO2 - You can't run ------------------- propodean