Apple Mac mini (M9687LL/A) Desktop

Pros: Small, beautiful, SILENT!
Cons: CoreImage not supported, limited expansion

I recently set up a new law office, and with the exception of a single (very cheap) PC for the rare IE-only website, decided to go exclusively Macintosh. A pair of PowerBooks for me (15" for the office and 12" for everywhere else), a 20" G5 iMac in the ...

Pros: Beautiful, compact and quiet design.
Cons: Minimal installation software, minimal memory, hard to expand, annoying registration process.

The Mac was my first love. Sure, I was first introduced to the TRS-80 back in junior high, and I had some good times with the Apple II in high school. But that summer before I went to college, when I saw the Mac sporting the same variety of scalable ...

Pros: Design, design, design
Cons: Bad customer service experience. Bought a dud.

I purchased the "fully loaded" Mac Mini as my Apple rep put it. Superdrive, bluetooth, AirPort, 512 RAM (only thing I chinced on, only because a few reviews said you can find the 1GB RAM cheaper elsewhere, like crucial.com). I also added on the ...

Pros: An affordable, painless introduction to the Macintosh and OS X Tiger.
Cons: Cooling fan and optical combo drive are sometimes noisy.

My big, heavy aging Dell Dimension won't run Windows XP, which means it also won't run Windows Vista when it's released. Conversely, my wife's iMac DV, with a retrofitted bigger hard drive and some extra RAM, WILL run Mac OS X Tiger. The decision: Buy ...

Pros: Its all a desktop should be: small, sleek, and capable, taking up little room.
Cons: Registration and setting up the wiring in the back panel can get annoying.

Ever since sending out the clones in the '90s, Apple has shown little interest in commodifying its computers. Yet now, in a move signaling confidence rather than desperation, it introduces its least expensive Mac ever, the Mac Mini. Problem is, it cost ...

Pros: Small, inexpensive, quiet. Adding free software turns it into a student machine.
Cons: Not very expandable. DEMANDS more RAM than Apple ships as standard.

There's plenty of life in the PowerPC Minis despite Apple's new range of Intel-based machines. I bought my Mini not long after they came out, mainly in order to write a series of articles for IBM about building the Mini into a multimedia appliance. ...

Pros: Apple. Remote. Small. Quiet. Stable. Stylish. Well Supported.
Cons: Learning a new O/S. Marginally more expensive but still a better VALUE IMHO.

Small, fast and sexy, and by the way; it's one heckuva computer as well!!! I was reluctant to switch but got tired of the constant problems maintaining my Winbox (YMMV). I had resisted peer pressure for YEARS before finally purchasing this product and ...

Pros: Powerful performance in a small package at an affordable price.
Cons: None for me.

This is my first Mac. I've been stuck in Windows OS hell for the last 10 years. If you're fed up with shoddy windows-proprietary computers like I was I would definitely recommend considering a mini-mac. Starting at $499, there's not that much risk ...

Pros: Super Fast System, NO VIRUSES AND VERY STABLE
Cons: None

This is my first Mac ever. I never liked the Older Macs, like OS 9 and OS 8 on the ugly Blueberry iMacs. I thought they would be the same. I was looking for a new desktop system and so I went to CompUsa, This sales guy asked me to follow him to the Apple computers. I looked at the OS and the System and I was amazed on how much they ahd improved in OS X vs. OS. I saw the Mac Mini and LOVED IT. SO I bought it. I bought one with the seceret upgrade. The 1.5 GHz Processor, 64MB VRAM, 512MB Ram, Superdrive, DVI Outputs. Now the new Intel Mac Mini Core Duos came out, I am going out tonight to buy one.

Pros: A bargain, sleek, convenient, easy to use.
Cons: 256 RAM is not enough.

Apple has done it again. For those of us who have one Apple computer, already have a monitor and mouse and keyborad (or don't mind paying $20 or so for an Apple keyboard), this is the computer for you. It's a breeze to setup, fast, sleek and cool.

Mostly, the functionality is great. It's fast, very easy to install and sync with old Apple computer (one button turns your old computer into a hard drive and pulls all the old files onto your new computer). The CD burner works great (much faster than my iBook, for example). And it comes loaded with the newest Apple software.

Only two problems: first, if you need to lock yours to a desk, you'll be annoyed that the lock hatch is below the earphone jack, making it a bit difficult to change earphones, speakers, etc. Second, processor speed is great but RAM is a bit disappointing. 256 standard is not enough.

Pros: size, speed, ease of operation, price
Cons: Key Chain, passwords and setup problems

I have had the MAC-Mini about 4 weeks now. I love its small foot print and speed. It does require a separately purchased monitor. Everything seems to meet expectations except what MAC calls its "Key Chain". Between the Key Chain and its built in password protection, I was totally frustrated in setting it up. The store manager even came to my house to try and help me. He left baffled as well. He contacted Apple and solved most, but not all, my problems. It also has a near un-reversible user "set up" user name that if you get it wrong is almost impossible to correct. For some unknown reason, it also changed my ISP's address that I had to figure out and reset.

It does have a easy to use "preference" index for each application that I like. I do like its "Tiger" software and the free software up date that it checks for automatically.