Re: Another mini-Mac owner ;-)

[Matt MacLeod <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes but only to write the odd letter/spreadsheet. I believe=20
compatibility between Office on Mac and PC is pretty good, I just don't=20
use Office that much, I'm afraid.

Matt
On 1 Mar 2005, at 08:49, christopher purves wrote:

>
> Hmm - I'm definitely tottering - have you used Office on it ? Are=20
> there any
> issues moving back and forth between win and mac office ?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
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> ----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
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> 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:
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>> 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!
>>
>>  Don
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tony.
>>>
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