Sarah, you are mistaking on thinking the mini comes with a Bluetooth
keyboard. You're thinking of the IMac. I know this based on both my
internet research, and the fact that I bought a brand new mini for myself
last February, as stated in my initial e-mail, and it didn't have any sort
of thing with it. All you get is the mini itself, the power cord, the
adapter, and a getting started pamphlet, and maybe the paperwork for the
extended Apple care, if you get that, which I've not as of yet. I need to
though.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah k Alawami" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: I need some advice regarding the purchase of a new
Macintoshsystem
I think but I'm not sure that the mini comes with an apple bt keyboard. so
you might be fine there. If not you can get her the apple usb full size
keyboard. The specs look good and maybe get her a monitor from wally world
on clearance. and maybe the magic track pad of the 1 button mouse won't
work.
Take care.
On Apr 7, 2013, at 7:37 PM, "Chris Gilland" <[email protected]>
wrote:
I know it's not May as of yet, so I have a bit still yet to financially
save, but I do want to be at least going ahead and doing my homework on
things.
I myself am a huge Apple fanatic. By now, you all should know that. I
have IPhones here, IPads, a mac mini, a Mac book, a few apple TV's, etc.
Needless to say, I love! Apple! With this said, here is the situation.
My mother currently has an old Dell Demention desktop Windows tower
machine. Hold on, before you,Gordon or Lynn chew me out saying this list
isn't Windows related, let me finish my comment, then you'll know why I'm
mentioning the Windows side of this, as believe me, this post has hardly
anything! to do with Windows. I say this though so you all know what
she's got currently. So, it's running Windows XP SP3, I'm not sure the
ram nor hard disk size. I know she bought the thing back in 2004. I
want to say a 50 or 80 gig drive, roughly, I'd say around 512MB ram.
This thing's got spyware galore on it, probably viruses left and right,
and honestly has not been scanned nor updated in probably over 2 years.
I keep telling her to do it, but that leads me to why I'm writing this
e-mail...
She is extremely! basic when it comes to computers. When her company
made her stop using a Blackberry (or as I'd call it, a Crap berry,) she
went into using her work IPhone 4S kicking and screaming. Between myself
and one of my mom and I's best friends who's like a brother to me, and
like a 2nd son to her, we both worked with her, and got her to where now,
she doesn't do a huge amount with her phone aside texting and e-mail, and
maybe using her camera a fair amount etc. I think she's used Pandora
maybe once or twice, and she uses Downcast almost constantly. Point is,
she's not a huge techy like I am, or a lot of us are on list.
She has seen my Mac computers and said they actually looked really easy
to use from what little she saw. I told her compared to windows, I
personally had to whole heartedly agree. To me, the mac makes way more
sense. It just seems to be way better laid out, and for beginners, seems
to be extremely intuitive. With this said, her birthday is May the 6th.
I'm going to be getting her a Mac Mini with Mountain Lion, as frankly,
she really! does need a new computer. And, she's really starting to get
more into the Apple line of things. She's got an Apple TV 2nd
generation, and watches Hulu Plus all the time! on the thing, plus her
Netflix. She's in heaven with the thing! That was her BD gift last year.
Also, her sister gave her an IPad 1st generation which she swears by.
So, I come to you all, for advice. She probably wont' do much more than
browsing the web in Safari, or maybe in Chrome/Firefox, she may do some
basic and I do, mean, very! very! basic photo viewing/editi
ng, like cropping or resizing in Preview/IPhoto. (She's sighted.) She'll
probably check E-mail a fair amount with the Mail application, and
probably would want to do some stuff with Itunes, and she'll probably wind
up using IWorks. Also she may use the native DVD player app a bit to
watch movies. She's not going to be doing a lot of heavy duty stuff. No
audio editing, no video editing, no hard powered core photo editing, just
more the very basic stuff.
She currently has a monitor with her Dell system, but it's V G A only.
The minis require HDMI. Yes, I know about the adapter that comes in the
mac mini box to convert that HDMI, but she doesn't have a port that even
would fit the adapter, and her monitor doesn't have HDMI either. I
thought about getting her maybe a Dynex, or Samsung, or Acer or some
really inexpensive flatscreen HDMI ready television that she could hook
to the mini, but I wonder if you all know of any good make/model with
built in stereo speakrers. This way, she also wouldn't have to be
concerned with getting a set of pc speakers. Actually, she's already got
a pair, so if worst came to worst, we could use the ones she already has.
Also, do you all think the I5 4GB ram model with the 500GB internal drive
would suit her fine based on her needs listed above? I'm thinking by far
and away! it would, plus! probably would give her plenty! of wiggle room
to learn and explore. I bought the $70 CD/DVD USB sup
erdrive with my mini, and I absolutely swear by it, so I may eventually
down the road get her one a those as well, although it's not something
right now she really desperetly needs.
Also, what type keyboard do you all suggest I get her if I wanna get her
a native Apple keyboard? I don't want her having to use a Windows PC
keyboard on a Mac system. Yes, I do realize it would work just fine, but
I'd rather get her something a little nicer. I personally have the white
flat metel aluminum wired USB Apple keyboard with the num pad included,
but I'm not sure if Apple is still making it. I think I paid in the
neighborhood of about $49.99 for the thing. It was, so! worth it though!
I'm just wonderring between the TV, and the keyboard, plus the mac
itself, do you all think I'm looking at the right avenew? I really do
think that the I7 may be a bit over-kill for her need.
Chris.
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