To: KwasiOwusu
You gotta go spend all that extra money to buy yourself a monitor for the Apple. Most people already have a monitor, mouse and keyboard that will plug into the Mac, so it's probably not necessary to buy those things.
Comes free with the Dell.
Dell also include free worms, viruses and spyware.
9 posted on
01/11/2005 11:11:47 AM PST by
HAL9000
(Spreading terrorist beheading propaganda videos is an Act of Treason!)
To: HAL9000
Most people already have a monitor, mouse and keyboard that will plug into the Mac, so it's probably not necessary to buy those things.Right. So they're target audience is the Mac community, and not IBM-compatible PC owners like myself who have to go out and buy the necessary components to actually use the thing.
10 posted on
01/11/2005 11:14:34 AM PST by
BigSkyFreeper
(PEST/Suicide Hotline 1-800-BUSH-WON)
To: HAL9000
"Dell also include free worms, viruses and spyware"
Rubbish.
Show me a brand new Dell with any worms, viruses or spyware on it.
There is none.
If anything, Dell comes with free anti-virus. :)
You gotta do better than that.
To: HAL9000
Dell also include free worms, viruses and spyware. Only if you're stupid enough to click on email attachments from people you don't know, or are too dumb to download ZoneAlarm for free.
21 posted on
01/11/2005 11:45:25 AM PST by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: HAL9000
Most people already have a monitor, mouse and keyboard that will plug into the Mac, so it's probably not necessary to buy those things. In the case (pun not intended) of the mouse pointer and monitor for the Mac Mini, this should not be a problem since 1) most Microsoft and Logitech mice come with USB connectors, which plug into a small PS/2 adapter for PC-compatible machines, and 2) VGA/DVI connectors are common on most monitors out there. However, finding a USB to PS/2 keyboard adapter is quite something, else, though.
I do think that Apple may offer a 120 GB version of the Mac Mini by the end of this year as the new 120 GB hard drive from Toshiba intended for the iPod becomes widely available.
By the way, because most printers have pretty much ditched parallel port connections in favor of USB connections, these printers will also with with the Mac Mini, too. 
To: HAL9000
The reason Macs are relatively virus-free is that most of the world runs on Windows platform.
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