I don't agree at all. Sure, I can find out what the cheapest possible mac is easily, but how is it as a development machine? Is it powerful enough to deal with

I don't agree at all. Sure, I can find out what the cheapest possible mac is easily, but how is it as a development machine? Is it powerful enough to deal with all the involved apps? How is the overall user experience from the dev side? Do you wish you had paid more and gotten a MacBook? For that matter, maybe I should go on ebay and buy a used, older generation Mac instead? Being satisfied with your development environment is about more than quantitative considerations. Asking this sort of question in a place where a lot of Mac-using developers congregate is lazy? I don't think so.