About a month ago I found myself in a position where I needed to have a Mac at my disposal in order to complete a freelance project that consisted of creating some templates to be used in Word 2008. My partner and I discovered that our templates were completely broken in Microsoft Word 2008 even though they worked flawlessly in Word 2003, and tolerably well in Word 2004 and Word 2007. With a deadline looming I got myself to the Mac store and came home with an impossibly small box that was supposed to be the answer to all my problems. (It wasn’t but that’s not the computer’s fault.)
The set up of this computer could not be easier. Getting used to Mac’s insistence that all edges should be fuzzy and rounded is not so easy, at least for me. I’ve been working with it for awhile and I don’t revert to the PC quite as often as I did in the beginning. Installing Firefox with some of my favorite addons helped a lot. I’m sure that it will continue to grow on me as I work with it more.
The best thing about the Mac mini, in my opinion is that it’s so portable. I can bring it with me to work and to my partner’s house and, since those places both have monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc I just have the little box and the really long cord to carry with me. The cord takes up as much room as the computer.
The processor speed is the same as my full size pc and the less robust graphics doesn’t really become an issue for this computer’s intended use. I chose to get the most basic configuration since it was never intended to be my primary computer. I do love that it starts up fast. I don’t have time to make coffee waiting for it to get up and running. The price is pretty amazing for a hot little machine. It amazes me that they can pack so much into such a little box.
Apple Mac mini MB138LL/A (1.83 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, Combo Drive)
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I think my comment may not at all what you expect it to be. But I have had a similar problem with Macromedia/Adobe Flash. The newer Flash couldn’t open .fla files made with older Flash versions. Kind of annoying, then again, I hardly use Flash anymore.
I am a Mac fan, even though I don’t have one. They’re a bit too expensive for my budget. But I’ve wanted a Mac for about 10 years. My mom wouldn’t buy one for me (I was a teen and lived at home back in those days). And eventually I got myself a home made PC. But I didn’t stop wanting one.
If you would have to advice someone (a designer, programmer, gamer – basically an all-round computer user), what would you say? I really don’t know which Mac I should consider saving for?
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