My MacMini arrived yesterday and I was playing the better part of the evening and a small part of the night (yawn) with it.
First impressions:
It’s small It’s quiet (unless it get’s really busy, at which point the fan kicks in - and that’s one noisy fan) Setup was very, very painless. I let my wife do it, and she went through the whole experience in a couple of minutes. the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) is immensely high the kids loved the included games (which led to tears when it was bed-time) connecting to sauron was a breeze iTunes was about 5 times faster re-importing my 12000 tracks on a Samba fileserver, than the Windows version on my Dell Laptop Connecting my iPod just worked - now I have to redo my smart playlists Fast User Switching (or whatever it’s called on OS X) works very well Installing / Deinstalling Software is easy a 1024*768, 15" screen is just a tad too small. A 17" wide screen would be nice - why doesn’t Apple have one? the “dead-slow”, “braindead”, “old piece of junk” graphic in the Mac Mini is absolutely fast enough Amazing that the whole thing cost just 20 swiss francs more, than my 30GB iPod about a year ago OS X is - just nice thanks to byteborg, rsz and vowe for initial support Open Questions: feel free to comment, I haven’t done much research on those yet
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