{"id":170,"date":"2006-08-18T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2006-08-18T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T11:43:08","slug":"fun-in-the-lunchbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Fun in the lunchbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it turns out that <del>all the people<\/del> Tom Morris, who commented on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/archives\/2006\/08\/12\/the_rapacity_of.html#001832\">my troubles<\/a> with a mac minis was right, and that I could without too much trouble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/images\/disembowelled_mac.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/images\/disembowelled_mac-thumb.jpg','popup','width=600,height=399,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">open up <\/a>a mac mini. There are only eleven screws and two bits of sticky tape that must be removed to get out the hard disk, once the plastic lid has been popped off. So now all I need is a fresh 2.5 inch <span class=\"caps\">IDE <\/span>hard drive, and a set of Mac PowerPC system disks &#8212; I don&#8217;t think I threw away my mother&#8217;s &#8212; and then there is a new mac. Do PC keyboards work, I wonder?<\/p>\n\n<p>Jonathan Lundell comments that Apple software is cheaper than I had reported,. Well, yes, if you buy the American versions. But the British ones are priced around the standard computer exchange rate of &pound;1=$1.00. Some are a bit cheaper:  iWork is $79 or &pound;55.00 ($105.00).  Amazon doesn&#8217;t seem to sell a student\/teacher edition of Office in this country, and Word alone goes for &pound;175.00 ($330.00) on the mac &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it turns out that all the people Tom Morris, who commented on my troubles with a mac minis was right, and that I could without too much trouble open up a mac mini. There are only eleven screws and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=170\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}