11 Responses for "The Mac Mini: Less Than You Think"

1. koreyel

   January 17th, 2005 at 12:17 pm

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   I agree.

   I wouldn’t think of buying Dell. Not only because it looks ugly and runs ugly software, but because of their politics.

   Bah bushshit…

2. Jeff

   January 17th, 2005 at 3:17 pm

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   I am just about to buy a Mini Mac, and everybody at my school was trying to tell me Windows was better. I kept telling them they haven’t experienced Mac OS X, but they think that Dell is simply a better deal. How wrong they are!

3. Matt Burris

   January 17th, 2005 at 3:39 pm

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   Uhm, choosing a product because of which color they support is very pathetic, but hey, it’s your wallet.

   While I agree, experience is a good thing to go by when making purchases, most people buying a computer at that kind of price point aren’t worried about experience, they just want to be able to get online, surf the web, and do email as cheap as possible. The Mac Mini is aimed at the budget-minded, and the budget minded don’t care if it uses Windows, Mac OSX, BSD, or Debian, they just want the bare essentials.

   The Mac Mini is like a Notepad Ultra, it got extra functions and looks neater than regular old Notepad, but most people trying to save money will just stick with Notepad because they don’t need fancy and extra features.

4. cliche

   January 17th, 2005 at 3:59 pm

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   If you really think about it, mac mini nothing revolutionary, other than it’s it’s a less than $500. I mean, I could chop the screen off my laptop, remove the keyboard, put it in a cute case, and end up with something smaller. Or, you start with a mac mini, add an LCD / keyboard / sound / pointing device / a bit more selling margin… and you get something similar in price and feature as–i bet you never guessed–an ibook!!!

   I still think it’s very good value because of the included software, and got it for my dad. But it’s definately not some innovation that shakes the face of computing.

5. Matt Burris

   January 17th, 2005 at 4:02 pm

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   I forgot to mention, I would love to get a Mac Mini, only to try out, and possibly enjoy, OSX and have a testbed for web design with Safari and other Mac browsers. I know for sure I’d enjoy having a Mac, for when I’m not in a gaming mood.

6. Daniel

   January 17th, 2005 at 7:49 pm

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   “OS X and Windows are as close together as Mercedes and Ford.”

   Sorta. It just depends on who you are. That conversation could go on forever how Mac is “so easy to use.” I am both a Windows and Linux user. I would like to pick up a Mac Mini because it has OS X, which is based on unix, and tiger looks like a nice OS. The Mac Mini lets me get a mac for cheap, which has never really been available. Its about time they did that so that they could sell more units, then they can compare to the amount Dell ships and sells their units for.

7. koreyel

   January 17th, 2005 at 9:41 pm

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   I nearly fell over when I read this:

   “…everybody at my school was trying to tell me Windows was better. I kept telling them they haven’t experienced Mac OS X, but they think that Dell is simply a better deal. How wrong they are!”

   Why did I fall over?

   Because I can reflect back when I was in college.

   It was 1988 and Apple had just come out with an incredible computer that changed everything–the original MAC.

   There were two computer labs on campus. One with MAC machines and the other with DOS machines.

   The DOS lab was for business majors. And they were ADAMANT…positively ADAMANT… about the superiority of DOS machines. You see, for them, the MAC was just “a toy.”

   Little did they know that Billy “the kid” Gates was fucking the pooch trying to get a “windows” operating systems into existence. Funny because Apples’s MAC invented “windows”–WAS in fact the original WINDOWS.

   Billy was desparate to emulate (copy) the superior MAC operating system on intel-chip machines.

   That’s Billy’s claim to fame.

   There is not a original thought in his flipping head. Beneath that awful haircut there is nothing original.

   NOTHING.

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   Now let’s switch tracks:

   Compare what I just wrote with what Jeff wrote:

   “…everybody at my school was trying to tell me Windows was better.”

   HEE HEE HEE…

   Nothing ever changes… Imagine that. In 1988 some fuckhole business majors were saying the same thing! Even as their hero: Billy the kid, was cloning the so-called inferior toy-operating system!!!

   What a fucking hoot.

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   Well…check that.

   Things do change.

   Billy Gates and his crappy copy of the MAC gui are fast on the path to the dust bin of history.

   About fucking time:

   Capitalism is supposed to be about superior products prevailing.

   You either got it or you don’t.

   If you don’t… you start running around like a sick and stupid pig, calling everyone communists…

   And that dear friends is all Billy has got left in his tank: name-calling.

   He is on empty…

   It is about time the world found out about it.

8. The Wolf

   January 18th, 2005 at 1:46 am

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   I sure as hell hope Mac gets a big break soon… I would love to be able to afford a Mac sometime in my life.

   And yes, even this one is too much. I need a lot of memory and this Mad just doesn’t have it.

9. cliche

   January 18th, 2005 at 9:54 am

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   “Billy Gates and his crappy copy of the MAC gui are fast on the path to the dust bin of history.”

   I’ve been hearing that since Windows 3.0 came out. Years later, all while Mac has always been years ahead of Windows, M$ hasn’t gone anywhere.

   “Capitalism is supposed to be about superior products prevailing.”

   Nope. It’s about big corporations bullying others to gain monopoly.

   OSX and Windows is like a choice between a Mercedes and a Ford like the other guy said. Except that on the Mercedes, there’s only 1 radio station, 90% of your CDs don’t play, you can only use 1 in 10 gas stations in town, etc.

10. Not Bill

    January 19th, 2005 at 3:50 pm

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    “Funny because Apples’s MAC invented “windows”–WAS in fact the original WINDOWS.”

    No Apple didn’t. And neither did Xerox.. Mebbie you need to do a little GUI history before you rebroadcast old myths.

11. Not Bill

    January 19th, 2005 at 4:01 pm

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    Also amusing to note the comparisons of MacOS X and Windows.. Why compare a specific version of MacOS with the entire Windows OS genre? After all there is WinXP, Windows Server 2003, ad etc. BSD and Debian in the same sentence? Bah… These contrasts are like comparing Fords and Corvettes.