 | Apple iMac Desktop with 24" Display MA878LL/A (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 320 GB Hard Drive, SuperDrive)
Buy new: $2,099.00 / Used from: $1,999.99 Unless you honestly need super-expansion (and I mean honestly, not out of geek-lust), this machine is everything you could ever hope for. The display is magnificent. The processing power is more than adequate. It has built-in just about everything I could ever want out of a computer.
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 | Apple Mac mini MA607LL/A (1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive, Combo Drive)
Buy used from: $799.99 I use this little guy for my personal server and media center. Oh Mac Mini, is there anything you CAN'T do?
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 | Apple MacBook MB061LL/A 13.3" Notebook PC (2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, Combo Drive) White
Buy new: $1,299.89 Unless Apple comes out with some sort of MacBook Lite, this will be my next computer. It's small, tight and powerful; perfect for my ever-present traveling companion.
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 | Apple iWork '08
Buy new: $67.99 / Used from: $59.00 Every moment I use MS Word my soul withers. The designer in me loves Pages's use of styles and Numbers is nothing short of revolutionary.
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 | DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model by Jeremy Keith
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $12.99 There's no better JavaScript + HTML introductory out there. This book is clear, concise and inherently creative. You can't read it without wanting to hop on your machine and get started. And the best part is that Jeremy Keith gets your started from the get-go with standards-based best practices.
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 | Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $20.48 Jeremy Keith's followup to DOM Scripting, this book is everything I hoped it'd be--Ajax explained with the simple clarity provided in his first book.
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 | The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $17.85 Not only does this book teach typographic art, it IS typographic art. Each page is masterfully sculpted by Robert Bringhurst. Beautiful.
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 | Flight, Volume One
Buy new: $19.55 / Used from: $12.49 This book, as with each of its successors, is brilliant. I will buy every single volume of this series, and I suggest you do too.
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 | Flight, Volume Two
Buy new: $24.45 / Used from: $15.19 |
 | Flight, Volume Three by Various
Buy new: $24.45 / Used from: $11.92 |
 | Flight, Volume Four
Buy new: $24.45 / Used from: $10.95 |
 | Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 I've the Dune Chronicles to be compelling time and time again. The story spans millennia, with each entry being notably different from any other.
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 | Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, Book 2) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Children of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 3) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 4) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Heretics of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 5) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.23 |
 | Chapterhouse Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 6) by Frank Herbert
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 The ending!? Where in this universe was Frank Herbert going with that? Alas, we shall never know...
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