[Swordmaker]

Mac Mini review from AP - PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping list, FReepmail me.

[SunkenCiv]

"the default (and skimpy) 256 megabytes of RAM"

What the hell (laughs) too funny... my first time was an Apple IIe with 64K (I later got the extra 64K Extended 80 column card), and the max on the IIgs was 4 MB (other than some arcane and rare Applied Ingenuity design). Ah, those were the days. This iMac (1999) could use a RAM upgrade (current is 96 MB, or three times the size of an Apple II ProDOS volume limit).

I could see myself getting one of these, although I'm not a fan of the Mac OS X interface (kinda hate it). The CPU would fit nicely on the shelf where I have the outboard CD burner (Iomega) and I'd also have an excuse for getting a flat-screen monitor (probably not an Apple).

Otherwise, I'll probably spend a little money to get some accelerator cards for the older CPUs, and a CD burner for the 7600, so I can burn stuff over there while I'm surfing over here.

Or, I could stop FReeping and go out for a walk or somethin'... nah.

[omniscient]

Who needs this junk? Will it run Half Life 2? Big deal, it's market share isn't even worth the hackers' effort of virus-writing for it.

Another overpriced, over-proprietary, underpowered, warmed-over, flavour-of-the-month, snob-appealing, metrosexuaized form-over-substance kitchen appliance replica sprung from the mind of the former campaign adviser to the Kerry campaign.

[js1138]

Because I use Microsoft's Windows XP Professional on my primary computer at home, I was able to control that system -- and view its desktop -- from the Mac mini in the dining room. That was thanks to a program called Remote Desktop Connection for Mac OS X that Microsoft offers as a free download.

This is just an add-on to the internet browser. Windows XP has Norton PC-Anywhere built in. You can run your PC from anywhere you have net access. Do anything, run any program.