Re: Another mini-Mac owner ;-)

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

To all who have gone the mac-mini route:

Would you do it again? or would you regard it as an impulse buy? Are you
all
now Mac converts ?

I ask because I am sitting here on the fence surrounded by impulse buys and
cannot decide whether to get one or not.

Chris



----Original Message Follows----
From: Don McAllister <donmc@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Another mini-Mac owner ;-)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:55:51 +0000



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> Went for the bluetooth/airport option and wireless kb/mouse, but did
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> one token gesture towards sensibility by keeping the standard DVD
> drive - I
> have writers coming out of my ears (painful, believe me!) in my PC's
> and I
> never use em - everything is streamed these days.
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I also went with just the standard combo drive. In the iLife apps
(iDVD) you can burn to an image file and ship that across to a PC to
burn on a DVD, but again, most of my stuff is streamed across from a
file server. Noticed that the mac OS X will just mount a .iso file
without any additional 3rd party software - sweet!

The only area I thought about later was backup - it might be nice to
have a DVD drive in the mac so that the backup can write to DVD. Again,
I can backup to network share and burn it there so no big deal!

> Thanks for helping me spend more money on toys Don ;)
>

All part of the service Tony, that's what we're here for!

Don

> Cheers,
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