Hi-Lurker, seldom poster, just bought a new mini after my ISP sent me an email telling me I've been accused of sending bulk email and unless I fixed my windows computer by putting on antivirus ware, antispyware, a firewall, etc, my cable would be discontinued. I already have all these on my machines, and had a tech guy come and clean my computer(and found nothing) so I decided to go back to Macs as I've had good luck in the past except my work required programs that only windows had at that time.
I've had the mini about 3 weeks, it is quiet, can't hear the fan, doesn't smell bad, restarted once with the big software download this week and does everything my windows machine does/did, even was able to put the program my work requires to access it at home by using firefox instead of safari.
I bought the $799 machine, upgraded to 4 gigs of ram, as my uses are pretty minimal (email, games-solitare and shanghai, and accessing the internet as my own library) so this machine is adequate by far. I already had a 23" Samsung LCD, and bought a $12 logitech keyboard from WalMart, and am good to go.
Plus with the money I saved by not buying the 24" imac(my other interest) I paid for almost half of the aluminum macbook I also bought to have something to be mobile with.
This blog was very helpful as I spent many hours looking at others experiences with the mini, macbook and imacs.
Thanks for listening. Bill
I've had the mini about 3 weeks, it is quiet, can't hear the fan, doesn't smell bad, restarted once with the big software download this week and does everything my windows machine does/did, even was able to put the program my work requires to access it at home by using firefox instead of safari.
I bought the $799 machine, upgraded to 4 gigs of ram, as my uses are pretty minimal (email, games-solitare and shanghai, and accessing the internet as my own library) so this machine is adequate by far. I already had a 23" Samsung LCD, and bought a $12 logitech keyboard from WalMart, and am good to go.
Plus with the money I saved by not buying the 24" imac(my other interest) I paid for almost half of the aluminum macbook I also bought to have something to be mobile with.
This blog was very helpful as I spent many hours looking at others experiences with the mini, macbook and imacs.
Thanks for listening. Bill
