Here's mine...
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I know, it's like Howard Carter when he first peered into Tutankhamun's bedroom. Wondrous things indeed. But don’t be alarmed. I'll talk you through it.
Mac Mini, the much-admired 2014 model with its soldered
8 (count 'em) gigabytes of smooth random access memory
and a 1TB HDD spinning at five
thousand four hundred revolutions per
minute. I know. Does
your SSD spin so energetically? Right.
Sure, I added an NVMe SSD, choosing only the best quality item I could find on Black Friday sale at Amazon, plugging it into a no name adapter of indeterminate provenance, and sitting back to enjoy those sweet sweet two lanes of data highway express.
That really speeded it up. Safari was so snappy, the first time I used it, I got whiplash.
Moving on, yes that'll be a Full HD monitor. Not "HD-ready" you wannabes, I'm talking
FULL HD. Right again. Touch me. YES it's retina, at a distance of just 90 inches. Or 9 inches if your retinas are old enough to remember when Marvel was actually a comic.
Mat? Stripy mat? Yeah I have a mat. Who doesn’t have a mat. You gotta have a mat. But this one is no less an item than
from the legendary 1993 fire-damaged sale at Ikea, Birmingham. That's Birmingham England, Europhile history fans. This mat is a collector’s item. In my case, the debt collectors. But no, they can’t have it. It's just too cool. The first time I used this mat, a girl two streets away fell pregnant.
Best part of this killer setup? Correct. That fancy-pants keyboard and trackpad made-in-heaven “ensemble”.
I tried a mechanical keyboard, after YouTube filled my feed with somebody called Thockmaster McLube. But it turns out the Thockster, the Internet
and Sir Jonny Ive were all wrong. Yeah who knew, misinformation on the Internet.
Anyway, they were wrong and I'm here to tell you the truth: A keyboard
can be too thick Mr Thock and
can be too thin, Sir Jonny. Whereas
this holy example of aluminium excellence is the canonical quintessential Goldilocks keyboard and trackpad:
just right.
If it was a planet and the trackpad its moon, they would support life. If they were on YouTube, it would be in a legendary 4:3 lecture by Carl Sagan. If it was an epic battle of years gone by, they would be featured in delicate tapestries and have adventure yarns written about them.
This keyboard / trackpad / 2014 Mac Mini / HD monitor combo is
The Grail.
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