Re: Another mini-Mac owner ;-)

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Hmm - I'm definitely tottering - have you used Office on it ? Are there any
issues moving back and forth between win and mac office ?

Thanks
Chris


----Original Message Follows----
From: Matt MacLeod <matt@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Another mini-Mac owner ;-)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:37:07 +0000



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.
We've sidelined the PC for use if and when we need it, and replaced it
with the higher spec'd Mini. We ordered it with 512mb RAM, airport card
and an Apple keyboard.

Runs about 10x better than the PC did, looks great on the 21" moniter
that we used with the PC and the footprint is so small that the guy
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
it's probably worth shelling out for even if you're just *interested*
in switching. If you're already a mac user, it's an ideal server, and
general office machine. The guy that uses ours runs Office, DreamWeaver
and the usual Mail/Safari/iLife stuff with no problems at all. We load
all of our music onto it and share it across the network and we back-up
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:
>
>  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
>
>
>
>  >
>  > 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.
>  >
>
>  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!
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>  Don
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>  > Cheers,
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>  > Tony.
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