This kid is a real retard, if you go to the home page there is a picture of him. He looks young, any how I emailed him this response
I just read your article found at
http://www.divisiontwo.com/articles/MacMini2.html
first item I thought was very wrong
"While the hardware is about roughly equivalent to a Windows PC circa 1995".
What windows computer back in 1995, came even close to a PowerPC 7455, which has 128 BIT vector processor on board.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that the Mini has no PCI slots either? And no floppy disk drive? Well, no wonder they got the unit to be so small. No keyboard or mouse either. Sorry, Kayla, daddys got to make another trip to Best Buy before you can play with your new computer."
Firstly don't need PC, is a complete solution, what PCI card were you wanting to put in it? or any other $500 computer market for low entry. The keyboard and mouse is not include because this system is designed to sell to people who already have those items.
"...I could get a Mac mini computer for $499 and have no keyboard or mouse, no serial ports, no way to connect a printer, no PS/2 ports, no floppy drive, no 5.25" bays, no PCI slots, no speakers, and no Windows XP..."
There is no PS/2 and hello, every heard os USB, it means universal Serial Bus, that where you plus your printer, mouse, keyboard, and if you want an external floppy. The Dell computer we have now in the US Army have no floppy drive anymore since most people use USB flash stick or thumb drives. Dell printers are USB, same with mouse and keyboard
No windows XP because it runs Mac OS X, a clearly more advance robust operating system. My guess you don't know much about different OSes.
"Back in the lab, we were able to borrow a USB keyboard and mouse from a Tangerine iMac collecting dust in the closet and get the darn Mini booted up at last. This is where the first noticeable problem with Apple design arises. While there is a Mac-style donnnnggggg when the Mini is first turned on, during normal operation the unit makes no sound whatsoever. This could make it very difficult for a novice user to know whether or not the computer is on. In fact, it took our techs about fifteen minutes before we realized the unit itself was operating normally and it was the monitor that was not plugged in properly. It turns out the Mini uses a weird kind of display connector on the back that requires a special adapter if you want to plug it into a PC monitor. We used a 15 Compaq VGA display."
you guys are not smart, does not matter if it is a Mini or a Windows PC, you need to plug a monitor into it.
"The Mini has got some built-in software for basic computer functions, but it cant do many common things as well as its grown-up brothers in the Windows world can. The little things can add up to big frustration for someone who might accidentally buy a Mini expecting it to be just like Windows. For example, there is no Outlook Express for email, but Apple includes a program called Mail, which is like a stripped-down email client that cant execute scripts or open attachments without user intervention. Personally I find it annoying, but if someone doesnt depend on emailing their coworkers vbscripts like I do, they might be able to get by with it. Secondly and possibly even more glaringly, there is no antivirus program shipped with the Mac. In todays climate of non-stop worms, trojans and viruses, releasing a computer with no virus removal software is irresponsible on the part of Apple. The OS X comes with some system maintenance utilities, but essentials such as a defragmenter or a registry cleaner are notably absent. I would expect a Mini to get really slow and unstable within a couple months if you cant perform any routine maintenance tasks on it."
Well lets look at the software, windows XP does not come with anything out of the box or those cheap PC, that has anything like iLife, the program to create web pages, music with garageband, do HD movie editing with social effects, DVD burner software to make those DVD menus. and the best part all this are integrated with one another, so you have access to multimedia in each application. Don't forget iTunes.
Outlook express is not that great. The mail clients is designed for imap, pop3 and hello what's this Microsoft exchange support.
Don't need defrag is the disk OS can manage the drive better. plus there are freeware available for people who really want to waste that time. This is a UNIX OS not a windows.
no registry cleaner needed, does not have a registry, Microsoft biggest mistake was the registry, a poor design, and clearly has mad it is for viruses.
"To see how much industry support the Mac platform has these days, I did a google to see if there were Mac versions of any of my favorite applications; unfortunately I ended up disappointed every time. There are very few first-person shooters for OSX. There is no Mac version of WeatherBug to check the temperature anywhere in the world. Nor is there a Mac version of helpful web and email enhancers like Hotbar. Or any equivalent of the DealHelper software I use to keep track of my passwords. My Office 2003 CD would not install, despite claims I had heard from Mac fanboys that OS X is compatible with Office. Heck, the Internet Explorer icon isnt even out on the taskbar by default, its buried in the c:\applications folder. "
You must not be to bright, I guess you could not install office 2003 on this device because it runs on Windows with intel processor, but you could install Office 2004 for Mac from Microsoft, which is newer and very better than it's windows version. All apple programs are scriptable using apple script.
There is a weather tacking feature it under the dashboard and is very easy to use.
I will agree the game choices are not as many, nor do the games get released in the same time frame.
Does not need explore on the task bar it has safari instead and there is no c: drive it a unix file system, also same with linux, the root top of the drive is /.
$1600 what crap are you putting on. I can have a wireless keyboard mouse using bluetooth, bose speakers, and a nice Dell 19" flat panel for $1250 with this Mac mini. There are not many virus out there for the Mac and because of it unix frame it does not have as many security holes as Windows. Believe me I am a systems Admin for the US Army currently, and they are Super Serious about security.
Well you should go to a real school and learn about the technology. You don't seem very well educated on computers. I have a degree in Micro Electronics processor design, 11 years software engineering experience. Have work on cell phones, routers, Internet servers, real time control systems to make chemicals. I have programed Windows, Linux, Unix(different flavors), and Mac OS X.
so before you try to school the world school yourself.
