Re: Another mini-Mac owner ;-)

[Don McAllister <donmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1 Mar 2005, at 09:31, Rob Mouser wrote:

>
> Whilst on that subject. Is it possible to get Internet Explorer 6 for
> Mac? A
> friend of mine has a Mac (21" iMac, god its gorgeous to look at!)
but
> has
> found that Safari is not supported by Egg's Money Manager so he cant
> see how
> much his love of Mac has dented his bank account! :-0
>

As per Matts recent note

> Oooooh and one more question... any of you macsperts know if you can
> get the
> iSight camera working with Windows Messenger?

Nah - this is a major PIA for some people - Messenger for the mac does
not include support for web cams as far as I am aware. There are other
messaging programs which do - iChat, AIM(?) but not messenger. Suppose
it's MS not making the switch too easy!

Don


>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt MacLeod [mailto:matt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 March 2005 09:20
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Another mini-Mac owner ;-)
>
>
>
> Yes but only to write the odd letter/spreadsheet. I believe
> compatibility between Office on Mac and PC is pretty good, I just
don't
> 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
>> 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!
>>>
>>>  Don
>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Tony.
>>>>
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