Mac Mini provides maximum fun

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Category: Reviews
Link: Mac Mini provides maximum fun (http://www.macbytes.com/link.php?sid=20050315164713)
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Approved by Mudbug

[nagromme]

They picked up on a couple things often ignored:

"One way to reduce costs when producing an economy PC is to skimp on software. That's not the case with the Mini. It includes the iLife '05 suite of programs that Apple bundles with its higher-end machines. iLife's applications let you manage and edit digital images (iPhoto), manage, play and purchase digital music (iTunes), edit video (iMovie), author DVDs (iDVD), and create music (GarageBand).


Another shortcut taken by computer makers is to unload the burden of processing graphics onto a system's main processor and memory. That's not Apple's style. The Mini has a dedicated graphics processor, the ATI Radeon 9200, and 32 megabytes of dedicated memory to handle its graphics chores."

Now add DVI, Firewire, and anti-virus/spyware software, and you've covered most of what a low-end PC leaves out :)

It's too bad that MiniView KVM/audio switch didn't work well. It looked like a nice unit to me.

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It's too bad that MiniView KVM/audio switch didn't work well. It looked like a nice unit to me.
Agreed on review points, nice to see he gets the real value of the Mac mini. Shame about the KVM, but didn't Belkin have a KVM issue with DVI input, so maybe these things are a little fussy.