Comments on: Mac Mini has huge potential for Apple

By: yoshi

yoshi — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:54:04 +0000

Make a great little server wouldn’t it? Small but powerful. G4 dosen’t toast things. Some guys are een colocating them in data centers. http://www.macminicolo.net

By: slacks

slacks — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:53:10 +0000

i think ppl are getting hooked into somthing which basicly is a bit shit. a seminal white box that goes with your seminal ipod. 600 dollers there. if you have a old monitor..? no i dont. old keyboard. no. its about making money ppl. and you are the suckers. can it play games? is it good at doing anything apart from being a very expensive dvd/music player. Trust microsoft. i tunes is bad. i pods make me sick. Although giving one to a girl might be the best idea i can think of. hmmmm white and shiney. Its a money making scheme yet ppl make out the apple some kind of siants. There just tapping into your subconcoius and f#cking with it. IPod how about ISick.

By: Jack A

Jack A — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:42:35 +0000

Oh and one more thing. Another great aspect of the Mac Mini is all the free software that comes with it. When you buy a Mac mini you also get included for free:

The iLife fully integrated suite (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, and Garage Band) for dealing with photos, movies, and music – playing or making your own.

Appleworks for word processing and spreadsheets (and which can save documents in a Microsoft Office compatible format),

Quicken 2005 to manage your finances and balance your checkbook,

Address book software which also prints labels,

the iSync syncronization software to sync your calendar and addresses with your phone or PDA,

The Safari Internet browser software (which also blocks popups),

Email software which is also integrated with iPhoto and the Address book,

Calendar/Scheduling software,

and my favorite – iChat AV – free video conferencing software which can go to full screen, and is smooth with perfect voice video synchronization. (you can also connect to PCs with this)

They even throw in a couple of games in (Nanosaur 2 and Marble Blast Gold).

Plus all this is running on OS X which doesn’t have all the problems with malware (while there are over 70,000 windows viruses in the world right now, there are currently zero (yes, that is right, zero) viruses in the wild for OS X). OS X is also inherently more secure so even if someone comes up with a virus in the future it would be very difficult to have it spread or cause as much damage as some of the Windows viruses have.

There is also a Mac version of Microsoft Office (if you can’t get by with Appleworks) and its files are fully cross compatible between Macs and PCs. This, however, is not included and will have to be bought separately.

By: Jack A

Jack A — Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:16:01 +0000

Good Article. One thing that it might be good to mention is that the keyboard and mouse connectors on the Mac mini are USB. If your old units are PS/2 then you can get an adaptor for under 10 dollars and still use them. Another great option is to buy a KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) switch. That way you can have both your PC and the Mac mini hooked up at once and switch between them with just a flick of a switch.