On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:14:50PM +0100, Chris Hallsworth wrote: > Sorry for my ignorance, but if a mac mini is a desktop, what's the point of > having wireless when you can't move the thing? Just curious. Thanks!
The only reason the Mini is a desktop is because it doesn't have a battery or a display, and the keyboard and mouse are also external. Apart from that, it's quite tiny, say, the size of your basic CDROM drive. Sounds like a great box to build something like, say, a DVR around. But aside from the fact that you *can* move it (because it's light), I can think of several reasons you might want wireless in a desktop. In fact, I can, because two of my desktops (not Mac) have wireless. If routing ethernet cable is difficult or impossible, wireless in a desktop is the best option. For instance, I have an IRLP node (which is a ham radio/Internet gateway) in my attic. Getting an ethernet cable from the first floor, where my DSL router is, up to the attic, would be at least a small problem and just a little inconvenient. Therefore, it's on a wireless connection. Melanie's desktop is on another wall from the router, and to get from one point to another would involve routing an ethernet cable across a doorway and in a fairly inconvenient manner...so she, too, has wireless, even though her computer is maybe 10 feet from the router, as the crow flies. Of course, there's the issue of running out of ethernet ports on the switch and having a wireless access point handy but not another switch. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or phone 888-75-BUDDY I'm giving you a free mall. Visit this page and claim yours: http://www.powermall.info >From Kitchen Disaster to Culinary Master, make meals and baking easier and faster: http://www.tastyshop.net
