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Mac mini Review At Macworld

Posted by timothy on from the mikey-likes-it dept.

lemonylimey writes "Macworld has the first hands-on review of the new Mac mini along with nicely illustrated step-by-step dissection. It looks like the mini comes apart easily and (unsuprisingly) uses standard notebook components: a Panasonic DVD-R drive on 'SuperDrive' equipped models, Seagate Momentus 2.5" notebook ATA-100 hard drive and a single, nicely accessible 184 pin DDR DIMM socket. Upgrade options aside, it might not have the clock-for-clock power of the equivalent $499 PC, but you have to ask yourself - If you put them both on a shelf and ask your Mom* to pick one, which one is it going to be? (Yes, I'm sure your Mom is a Doctor of Mathematics and wouldn't buy anything she couldn't run Debian on. You know what I meant.)"

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  1. Where's the PS/2 connector? by amichalo · · Score: 0, Troll

    No troll here. I am excited for the Mac mini, but it there some technical reason uncovered that helps explain the whole port fiasco?

    The Mac mini is supposed to be either a "Switcher's Mac" or a Mac for IT pros who are going to hook it to a KVM, or lastly a home entertainment server. In any of those cases, the ports standard on the Mac mini (DVI/USB) are a bad choice.

    Where are the VGA out and PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports? I see that for $20 you can buy a DVI -> VGA adapter, but I don't see any PS/2 keyboard -> USB adapter. Why doesn't it just COME WITH these things in the box. Could such items cost more than a couple bucks per unit to include?

    Switchers only have VGA and PS/2 devices. Only high end KVMs support DVI and USB. What the hell is going on in Mission Control?

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  2. Re:Imagine... by pyite · · Score: 0, Troll

    You do realize that none of the pre-built Xserves include a video card, right? I don't think people are buying them so they can have a GUI 'adduser.'

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  3. Re:My Mac sucks by Jerry+Smith · · Score: 0, Troll

    >>8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM
    Nice machines, http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac/sta ts/powermac_8600_300.html but if there has been little or no maintainance in 7 years: yes, grinding halts happen.
    I feel sorry for the machine. And for you, having to work with it. Poor bastards.

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