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Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops?

Posted by michael on from the half-a-league-onward dept.

elecngnr writes "Maybe size doesn't matter. ZDNet has a story about how the Mac mini may shift consumers away from the larger tower style desktops to smaller ones. Other computer makers, such as HP, have so far been unsuccessful in marketing small computers to consumers. However, Apple does have a history of leading the charge in paradigm shifts in certain aspects of consumer products (e.g. GUI's, color changes, the iPod, and the list goes on). It is also important to recognize that they have been wrong at times too (e.g. the Cube, the Newton, and the one button mouse). Time will tell which list the Mini will belong to."

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  1. No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    People like big things. Big TVs, big SUVs, big houses... big computers. Size still matters. I bet if they started selling room-size computers again, people would be buying them.

  2. One button mouse flamage here by rjrjr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's get this out of the way right now. Please make all your valuable n-button-mouse replies to this post.

    1. Re:One button mouse flamage here by geoffspear · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't see how anyone can possibly operate a computer with only 3 buttons, 1 of which is a tiny clickable scroll wheel. My mouse has 18 buttons, and I couldn't possibly do without any of them.

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    2. Re:One button mouse flamage here by Geoff-with-a-G · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't see why anyone needs more than one button. I don't even use a keyboard. The computer is in binary anyway, I just tap the data in with my one-button. It's a much simpler interface, really.

  3. Re:One button mice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    God will you people PLEASE come up with something more original to pick at Apple with than the One Button Mouse. They obviously weren't THAT wrong about the one button mouse, they still use them. And they like it!

    God, will you people PLEASE come up with something more original to pick at Microsoft with than the poor security implementation of Internet Explorer. They obviously weren't THAT wrong about the poor security implementation of Internet Explorer, they still use it. And they like it!

  4. Re:The One Button Mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every time I sit down at my Mac to work with Maya, the first thing I do is plug in a three-button mouse with scroll wheel

    Maybe you should leave the three-button mouse plugged in. That way, you wouldn't have to keep plugging it in again every time you sit down.
  5. Re:One button mice... by pclminion · · Score: 4, Funny
    The one button mouse, or rather glidepoint, drives her nuts. Not the glidepoint itself (she loves that), but the single button that forces her to memorize somekey+mouseclick to do basic things the rest of us do with the right mouse button and, in the case of us Linux/*BSD folks, the middle mouse button.

    Let me get this straight. She's unwilling/unable to memorize how to use one key, which is the same key on all Macs, in all applications, at all times? The key which has been used for this purpose since the beginning of Mac history?

    Your girlfriend has a serious learning disability.

  6. Re:Mini Macs are a good thing... by HerculesMO · · Score: 3, Funny

    Point taken... I'm not a dumb fucker though... I'm an arrogant one. Get it right!

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  7. Re:Form factor had nothing to do with it for me... by Moofie · · Score: 4, Funny

    DAMMIT! STOP ruining people's RANTS with your FACTS!

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  8. Re:Form factor had nothing to do with it for me... by Vollernurd · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's see...

    "5) Do not eat Mac Mini."

    Huh?

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