Shopping for an inexpensive PC? Make it a Mac Mini. You won't regret it.

The Detroit News - you must link to site to read. | 3/2/2005 | Tom Gromak

[Swordmaker]

Shopping for an inexpensive PC? Make it a Mac Mini. You won't regret it.

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[Swordmaker]

Mac Mini review PING!

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

[Barney59]

Just ordered one today from the APPLE store...

Time to hit HomeDepot and buy my putty knives!!!

[Tribune7]

Computer columnist who had been recommending Dell for cheap basic computers now unabashedly pumps Mac. Says it comes with great software including an Office-type suite.

[Little_shoe]

Like the size.... However the best way to get a computer cheap is to build it yourself.

[Ff--150]

I just bought a new computer because a trojan horse shut down my old tower. I would have investigated Mac mini but for my online trading the software is not mac compatible.

I might have converted to Mac if someone would have spoken English instead of jargon; i. e., "do X, then Y, and you can run your Z program on a Mac."

[af_vet_rr]

Says it comes with great software including an Office-type suite.

It comes with AppleWorks, which is either a "you love it or you leave it type thing". iWork is seperate purchase (and if you didn't need Keynote, there are several really good word processing applications for under $40).

That said, nobody is selling a PC with the equivalent of the iLife suite. Nobody. I can guarantee you that if they were selling a PC with the equivalent of the iLife suite (not that it exists, no matter how hard Adobe and Microsoft try), and it was selling for $500, it still wouldn't feel like it was worth $500 for the machine and the software.

I've actually converted a couple of people just on the basis of iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD alone, regardless of OS X and the hardware.

[Tribune7]

True, the AppleWorks suite does not compare to Office. OTOH, it can get you started.

[solitas]

The article asks "could it make a 'switcher' out of [me]?" and answers itself affirmatively. A 'switcher' from a pentium-box? Maybe.

An 'upgrader' from my current Macintosh? Definitely not: I can buy a DUAL 1.8ghz G4 7447 processor upgrade for only a hundred dollars more for my "Mystic" from http://www.gigadesigns.com and still keep my multiple drives and PCI slots and internal zip drive and inexpensive 1.5gig RAM and gigabit ethernet and analog/digital audio input.

I think a lot of other current Macintosh owners would make out better from upgrades too - those that have the older 'big boxes'.

[tiamat]

Thanks!

I am thinking of getting a Mini either this summer after MacWorld or perhaps at christmas-timee...Looks to be a sleek little machine!

BUMP!

:-)

[Woahhs]

I would have investigated Mac mini but for my online trading the software is not mac compatible.

You're sophisticated enough to trade stocks online, but not sophisticated enough to get through the "Jargon" telling you you need ONE program to do what you want?

A better man than me wouldn't imply disingenuousness on your part.

[Ff--150]

Thanx for not being disingenuous. And that program was??? I'm so smart I must have missed it =-)

[Woahhs]

Virtual PC by Microsoft.