Delivered Today!
I had to write in caps for my title cuz I was excited. I got my HP printer (free with rebate), and my 2.53 GHz Mac Mini w/applecare (auto-enroll) at the student discounted price. This computer is pretty worth it. I plugged in my external HD from my MBP and I restored my mac mini with my documents and programs from my MBP and it's "n'sync" bye bye bye...PC.
I've never owned a desktop Mac before and it really does feel like a different experience of having a mac laptop and desktop. It looks downright sexy too just sitting next to my 24" ACD. It's such a sleek and simplistic design, my folks were like "WTF is that really a computer?", "So cute!", "It looks so simple but I heard it's powerful now". My friends who are still PC users wanted to look for a mac desktop on a budget and they're getting the same thing I am since they have their own monitors, speakers, and peripherals. Soon they'll buy a MB or MBP from what they told me. ANYWAY.
I'm using it right now as we speak. I tried loading some videos from my 3GS but I'm no techy and I didn't know the video wouldn't come out the way it's view on my iphone if i turned it sideways, sorry guys. The Mac Mini does not take up much space at all. My monitor isn't all that large like the 27" and its good enough for my eyes, I can still multi-talk by reading PDF files and writing pages or word.
Speed performance? It's pretty fast IMHO. Slightly noticeable when compared to my other friend's mac mini (2.0ghz with 2GB RAM). Biggest difference I see is in launching of media such as movies and large photos. Loading of webpages seems a little quicker. Just everything is quicker but not drastically quick which is better than nothing. The front reminds me of The Day The Earth Stood Still w/Keannu Reaves (?spelling?) robot dude. I'd say the black printer fits in nicely here in this setup. Not only are all of this sexy here, it's functionally great in performance. I'm happy with my new mac mini and I'm going to make sure I make use of it well for a LONG time. Any other upgrading in the future will be software only as I don't need anymore than 4GB RAM. I may get a new computer lets say every 3-5 years?
I played around with the new imacs in the apple store and the 27" is too big. 21.5"...eh... I had the stuff, so all I needed was something like the mac mini. If you're not a professional photographer, extreme graphics artist, professional commercial movie maker, this mac mini is for you if you're on a budget. To me, it seems like you can do some of the big boys stuff on the mini. Any questions or concerns? Feel free to ask.
Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXzBnlQSJRk
Sorry about bad video. I'm still learning.
