The Middle

A friend of mine at work, previously curious about OS X, has become enamored with the new Mac mini. Unfortunately, he has to come up "Capital Approval", a.k.a. convincing his wife he needs one. I merely pumped up his desire talking about Expose, Terminals, running Apache, Perl, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, SSH, MySQL, LAN file serving, and fink apt-get goodness, etc (this guy is a geek's geek). However, none of that would work too well on the wife. He was the one that came up with this genius explanation:

"Honey, we have hundreds and hundreds of digital photos. We need a more robust and simple system to store, catalog, edit, and just deal with all of these pictures. There's a program called iPhoto that does all of this brilliantly, and will make our lives better for having used it.

It only costs $499...but it comes with hardware!"

Brilliant. Hope that one works for him.