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Ars Technica has posted an excellent guide for new Mac mini owners coming from a Windows background:
http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/miniguide.ars
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Posted: 2005-01-27 10:45:18
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@JoolsG4 - I'm definitely going to get one of these little puppies, do you reckon it's worth buying on-line (assume they have a configurator so I can max the spec) or go into an Apple Centre in town?(Edinburgh)
Closest I've come to owning a Mac was an Apricot PC years ago
Mr Mince
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Posted: 2005-01-27 21:33:18
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Well, I bought my last Mac online at the
UK AppleStore and was very pleased with the service. It arrived quicker than they estimated! So I'd have no problems recommending the UK AppleStore.
However, they're currently quoting shipping in 3 - 4 weeks! They sold out pretty quick!
If your local AppleCentre has a Mac mini in stock and can add the extra RAM for you (it only has one RAM slot, so they'd have to remove the existing 256MB chip and substitute it with a 512MB - check whether you keep the old 256MB or whether they offset the cost of it), I'd go there, because at least you have somewhere local to see it first.
The 1.25Ghz model with 512MB RAM should be £389
The 1.42Ghz model with 512MM RAM should be £449
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Posted: 2005-01-27 21:46:44
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Associated Press technology writer Matthew Fordahl is the latest to give Apple's new Mac mini a
glowing review. "The Mac mini is elegant, inexpensive without being cheap, and it's not a magnet for the viruses, worms and other malware floating around the Internet," writes Fordahl. "It could fit in any room as a first, second or third computer. And it plays well with others on a home network. Most of all, it's a low-cost alternative to Microsoft's Windows that doesn't carry the learning curve of Linux. It also doesn't presume you're guilty of software theft: And refreshingly unlike Windows, there's no activation when you set it up--or an anti-piracy checks afterward... Though this compact little box won't have the same impact that a $500 Mac could have had 21 years ago, it just might be the right computer for our times."
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Posted: 2005-01-27 22:47:26
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What about the Graphic card ???
The Sound Card ???
It's very sexy, i wanted to buy an Macintosh System, but they said that Mac is Crappy, There are to many Programs for it, its expensive you can't understand The system...
Is this right ???
An example:
I've got the Application ''Download Accelerator Plus'' The game ''Diablo2'', a Messenger, ''ICQ'' and ''
Microsoft MSN Messenger''.
can i use them with a Mac???
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Posted: 2005-01-27 22:55:09
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Quote:What about the Graphic card ???
The Sound Card ???
Check the specs on the Apple site
here. Graphics are provided by an ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM with AGP 4X support.
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It's very sexy, i wanted to buy an Macintosh System, but they said that Mac is Crappy, There are to many Programs for it, its expensive you can't understand The system...
Who's the "they" that said the Mac is crappy? There's over
10,000 applications for Mac OS X... how many do you think you'll want to use? And the Mac is renowned for
ease-of-use...
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I've got the Application ''Download Accelerator Plus'' The game ''Diablo2'', a Messenger, ''ICQ'' and ''Microsoft MSN Messenger''.
can i use them with a Mac???
Here's links to the Mac versions:
Download Accelerator Plus for Mac
ICQ for Mac
MSN Messenger for Mac
Diablo 2 for Mac
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[ This Message was edited by: JoolsG4 on 2005-01-27 23:23 ]
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Posted: 2005-01-27 23:07:10
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Wow, nice !
Thank you for your answer
I'll think about to buy one of these Beasts =)
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Posted: 2005-01-27 23:13:17
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Regarding mini-Mac and keyboards/mice, there's another strategy ... if you have multiple systems on your desk and they all have monitors and you don't want to have multiple keyboards 'n meeces, you should take a look at
KMremoteControl from
www.derman.com.
Simply put,
KMremoteControl is a software keyboard/mouse switcher (i.e., KVM without the "M" part). I've been using
KMremoteControl for quite some time (in a different setup) and it works really well. Hope this helps.
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Posted: 2005-02-06 10:55:33
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