I'm seriously considering it. I have an early 2009 iMac that's beginning to have problems. I originally held out for the new iMac to be announced, but after seeing the release, I started giving the mini serious consideration.
Here's what I use my Mac for:
- Web surfing, email, etc
- Watching TV shows/Movies
- Rip DVDs (strictly for archival purposes)
- Transfer/Convert Tivo recordings
- VPN into Work using Remote Desktop
- Virtualbox for running one or two VMs
I do need two monitors, but based on the above, I'm not sure I'm going to see any benefit to a discrete graphics card as I don't plan on gaming. I'm probably going with the mid-level mini simply for the upgrade in the CPU to the quad i7. I happened to transfer and 24 Tivo recordings and used Toast to convert to MP4. This took about 14 hours on my existing machine. I'm going to assume it will be a lot fast on the i7.
My biggest decision now is which monitor I want. I'm tossed between Apple's Thunderbolt display, the Dell 30" U3011 or 27" U2711. I like the idea of the Dells since I can use it on other computers without the thunderbolt connector.
I'm probably going to pick up the mini this weekend and decide on the monitor over the next couple of weeks.
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Can you tell me which Dell monitor you went with?