hardheadjarhead
Senior Master
Sick of spyware, adware, trojan horses and viruses, I bought a Mac Mini.
I think I'm in love.
I was a Mac man, years ago. My wife hated them and forced me to leave for the Dark Side (she was my "Eve," but tempted me away from the Apple), and we bought PC's.
The tragic story played out...with the fall from Grace I contracted various ills. I turned to Spybot and Adaware, to no avail. ZoneAlarm could not save me. Symantec abandoned me.
Then, in a moment of perfection, I wandered down to The Mac Experience and talked shop with the Priest...er, tech...down there. Absolution and forgiveness were there for my taking. I need but accept the Apple Icon as my own and the demons would no longer plague me.
Okay...now for a review.
The Mac Mini is about the size of five stacked CD cases. It would fit into my wife's purse. Peripheral hook ups are done by Firewire/USB, so everything fits into a nice tight package.
I had mine upgraded from the start with Superdrive, a DVD burner/reader/CD burner/reader, and a gig of RAM. I got a cheap keyboard and mouse, and I'll probably want a better keyboard later, but this will do for the moment. I didn't need a screen. The Mac Mini comes with an adapter so that it fits to my old PC screen. It may well work for my older Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 1010e...if so, I'll hook it up to that, as its a better screen.
Hooking up to the net was dirt simple. I didn't have to install my SBC DSL disk or even remember my password information for my server. I went to the Ethernet settings, clicked a button and it was done automatically.
I'd forgotten what it was like...USER FRIENDLY. True, the OS is new and far different than the old 7.5 Mac I used years ago, but I'll learn.
As for my PC at work, I'll probably eventually dump it. I may use it to learn how to do Linux. Once I've gotten the cash, though, I'm getting a Mac Mini for there.
I'm never going back, Bill Gates. NEVER! DO YOU HEAR???
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHAAAA!!!!!!!!!
Ahem.
Regards,
Steve
I think I'm in love.
I was a Mac man, years ago. My wife hated them and forced me to leave for the Dark Side (she was my "Eve," but tempted me away from the Apple), and we bought PC's.
The tragic story played out...with the fall from Grace I contracted various ills. I turned to Spybot and Adaware, to no avail. ZoneAlarm could not save me. Symantec abandoned me.
Then, in a moment of perfection, I wandered down to The Mac Experience and talked shop with the Priest...er, tech...down there. Absolution and forgiveness were there for my taking. I need but accept the Apple Icon as my own and the demons would no longer plague me.
Okay...now for a review.
The Mac Mini is about the size of five stacked CD cases. It would fit into my wife's purse. Peripheral hook ups are done by Firewire/USB, so everything fits into a nice tight package.
I had mine upgraded from the start with Superdrive, a DVD burner/reader/CD burner/reader, and a gig of RAM. I got a cheap keyboard and mouse, and I'll probably want a better keyboard later, but this will do for the moment. I didn't need a screen. The Mac Mini comes with an adapter so that it fits to my old PC screen. It may well work for my older Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 1010e...if so, I'll hook it up to that, as its a better screen.
Hooking up to the net was dirt simple. I didn't have to install my SBC DSL disk or even remember my password information for my server. I went to the Ethernet settings, clicked a button and it was done automatically.
I'd forgotten what it was like...USER FRIENDLY. True, the OS is new and far different than the old 7.5 Mac I used years ago, but I'll learn.
As for my PC at work, I'll probably eventually dump it. I may use it to learn how to do Linux. Once I've gotten the cash, though, I'm getting a Mac Mini for there.
I'm never going back, Bill Gates. NEVER! DO YOU HEAR???
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHAAAA!!!!!!!!!
Ahem.
Regards,
Steve