Re: Another mini-Mac owner ;-)

[Matt MacLeod <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe an impulse buy, but one that I'm very happy with.

In our office of three people we had two PowerBooks and a clunky PC.=20
We've sidelined the PC for use if and when we need it, and replaced it=20
with the higher spec'd Mini. We ordered it with 512mb RAM, airport card=20
and an Apple keyboard.

Runs about 10x better than the PC did, looks great on the 21"
moniter=20
that we used with the PC and the footprint is so small that the guy=20
using it has much more room on his desk than us PowerBook users!

If you want to switch to Mac, it's an ideal purchase, and at the price=20
it's probably worth shelling out for even if you're just *interested*=20
in switching. If you're already a mac user, it's an ideal server, and=20
general office machine. The guy that uses ours runs Office, DreamWeaver=20
and the usual Mail/Safari/iLife stuff with no problems at all. We load=20
all of our music onto it and share it across the network and we back-up=20
the Work folders from both PowerBooks to it.

A lovely addition to the office.

Matt


On 1 Mar 2005, at 08:21, christopher purves wrote:

> To all who have gone the mac-mini route:
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>  Would you do it again? or would you regard it as an impulse buy?
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> you all
>  now Mac converts ?
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>  I ask because I am sitting here on the fence surrounded by impulse=20
> buys and
>  cannot decide whether to get one or not.
>
>  Chris
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>
>  ----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
>  > make
>  > 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.=20
> 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 ;)
>  >
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>  All part of the service Tony, that's what we're here for!
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>  Don
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>  > Cheers,
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>  > Tony.
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