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• austinbarry 29th Oct 2008

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  Good Points: Tiny (about the size of a stack of 6 CD cases)
  Virtually silent
  Built in wifi and bluetooth
  Works with any keyboard and mouse and monitor (I hooked up a widescreen, and it looked perfect without any tweaks)
  Plays and burns CDs or DVDs (I have the more expensive version, the cheaper version doesn't burn DVDs)
  Surprisingly fast.
  It's a mac - things just seem to work together.
  For Unix geeks, it has Unix under the hood. For non-Unix geeks, you can ignore this fact, and just marvel at the fact that it rarely crashes.

  
  

  Bad Points: Sub-par audio quality (I ended up and recommend getting an add-on USB audio adaptor). I should have expected this, but for a machine which seems to be designed around home entertainment I'd have expected at least Ipod quality sound (this is why I didn't give it a 10)
  Very difficult to open (to upgrade memory, internal disk, etc)
  All USB connectors on back, and not enough of them (4)
  It's easy to unplug the power cord while reaching behind the machine
  Default configuration has way too little memory

  
  

  General comments: I got a mac mini thinking that it would make a great heart of a home entertainment system. The size is certainly right for this. Installation and migration (from another mac) was a piece of cake. In fact all I did was connect my vintage macbook and 30 minutes later all my programs (yes!), settings, etc were copied. At home, I am mostly doing email, web browsing, managing my photo collection, and managing my ever increasing audio collection, tasks which the mac is well suited. Any application can print to a PDF, and word documents can be opened (sort of) without MS Word (I have MS word, but rarely use it). There is not as much freeware/shareware as there is for Windows, but what's out there seems to be of slightly higher quality (and most malware simply doesn't work). Also, a lot of Unix software works (though Xwindows based software is a little awkward). I have not attempted to dual-boot XP, but it's possible.
  
  Now the bad points (minor)..
  The first thing I did was hook it up to my stereo. Sound was not natural sounding. When I hooked up an external USB audio adaptor (buy carefully - some don't work with a Mac), things got much better, but it sometimes reverts back to the internal speaker after a reboot. 1gb memory is simply not enough. I brought a third-party memory card, and opening up the case involved using a putty knife (the memory vendor had a detailed video on this). Max memory in my box is 2gb, but I think newer ones can take more. Another thing I brought was a USB adaptor - I suggest buying one (or two).
  

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• kjs82 11th Nov 2007

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  I'm a computer science student - so i am fairly handy with software etc.
  
  The mac mini is great as a standalone system, but when connected to peripherals you get very basic options (if they work at all), and many websites and other applications fail to interact properly with mac based browsers and other software.
  
  If you have powerPC software - some of it runs fine on Intel - others crash or fail to respond.
  
  If you use Skype, then your microphone won't work in the line-in socket withou ...

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• sandmansam 11th May 2007

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  I generally love my Mac Mini, it's simple to use and does everything you would expect from a full size PC, in a box the fraction of the size, it is also much faster then you would expect for such a small machine.
  
  The software that comes with the mini is generally excellent but I must admit I added MS Office to my one, well worth the extra cost.
  
  Like all Mac Computers it has an excellent built in firewall and net filtering software, enough security for most home users, you can however add m ...

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• rhysharrison 27th Feb 2007

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  I've got an Apple Mac Mini and i wonder why people are still buying pcs, it cant all be because of the software compatibility, can it?
  Macs are far superior to pcs and they have no viruses. I would recommend Mac. mini 100%brilliant machine

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• spellacy29 16th Jan 2007

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  I've owned my Mac Mini for over a year and I wonder why I ever bothered with a PC. It performs beautifully, very rarely freezes, isn't bothered by viruses nearly as much as a PC and produces excellent work. Quality, style and exclusivity are built in and once you get used to them, they're a joy to use.

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• joeburton 12th Apr 2006

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  The Apple Mac Mini works straight out of the box, turn it on complete the few steps and away you go. Connected straight into my wireless, remote is great for playing music and watching dvds. The Apple O/S is so easy to use and looks great. I had a pc in my room it made so much noise the Apple is very quite and looks fantastic.

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• gerrards 3rd Jun 2005

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  Apple Mac Mini - I support computers, so I need both PC's and a Mac. Unable to afford a standalone G4 I've had a cumbersome eMac taking up far too much desk space. Until the Mac Mini, that is. It was an impulse buy the weekend it came out and I haven't regretted one moment of it. With its footprint only a little bigger than a CD case I've been able to use my Windows keyboard, mouse and TFT screen via a KVM switch, and so have reclaimed a continent of desk space.
  
  The Mac Mini is simplicity its ...

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