Its fine to experiment with round pegs and square holes, also. But,
if things don't work out, that is an obstacle for you to overcome or
forget about. Round pegs weren't designed to work in square holes,
and the people that make either won't have a lot of sympathy that you
aren't using their products as intended.
Bryan
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 1:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: My Mac Mini
Hello,
I think people are confusing portable with mobile. It is a small
difference but a difference none the less between the 2. The mac
mini is a portable desktop. It was not meant to be moved from room
to room like a cordless phone. lol. This Is why there is no
battery. You can move it easily enough but really. Its a stationary
machine. It not working without a monitor is not a bug. Who but
blind people would even dream of using a computer with no monitor.
What if there is a problem where you require sighted assistants? Do
you then scramble to get a monitor, or must they bring their own to
the party. lol. A macbook is a mobile computer. Meant to go with
you anywhere. Note the battery and keyboard built into the machine ,
with trackpad and monitor. I just kind a feel like some people are
trying to put the round peg in the square hole here.
On Apr 1, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Joe Plummer wrote:
> No, I dis agree with this. They made it small and portable just so you
> could move it around easily. Now for the monitor part you can get real
> small monitor like a 7 or 9 inch monitor to do what you want that is
> very portable and some even runs off a battery.
>
>
> Sign,
> JP ( Joe Plummer)
> [email protected]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bryan Smart
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:25 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: My Mac Mini
>
> I think that people are getting the concept of the Mini all wrong.
>
> The Mini is not a laptop. If you try to use it like some sort of
> portable, then you're of course free to try, but Apple has not
> designed it to be a portable computer, and so, if it doesn't work like
> that, they won't care that you can't make it suit that purpose. Its
> also not intended to be a headless Mac for blind people.
>
> The Mini is designed to fit two types of situations only.
>
> 1. You don't know if Mac is for you, and you want a cheap way to
try it > out.
>
> 2. You need a low-powered Mac to handle some basic tasks, such as
> being a home or small office server.
>
> That's it.
>
> If the Mini feels underpowered, it is because its underpowered. It is
> powered by a mobile processor, uses laptop memory, and slower laptop
> hard drives.
>
> If the Mini sucks at being a portable computer, it is because it isn't
> a portable computer. Its a cheap desktop Mac.
>
> If the Mini sucks as a headless Mac, then that is because it isn't
> designed to run without a monitor. People are supposed to buy a Mini
> to use with their existing PC hardware, as part of evaluating if
> they'd like to really use Mac in the future. Of course, using a Mac
> with a PC keyboard and mouse means that you miss out on a lot, also.
> Stil, it is a way to try this stuff to see if you'll like it, or if it
> will be a waste of money, without forcing you to pay a lot for the
> chance to try it out.
>
> If you're serious at all about using the Mac, you probably won't stay
> with a Mini for very long. The internal hard drives are slow, the
> capacity won't go any higher than 500GB, the memory won't expand very
> far, the processor is underpowered, so on and so on.
>
> Not trying to rain on your parade. I love hacking around with what's
> possible in equipment. The thing is, if, after using a Mini, you've
> become serious enough to get frustrated with what it can't do, then it
> is time to sell your Mini to another newbie, and upgrade to a MacBook,
> an IMac, or a Mac Pro that will do more.
>
> For example, if you're moving a computer from room to room to browse
> the web, then you really should be using a MacBook.
>
> Bryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris G
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 8:30 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: My Mac Mini
>
> Hi,
>
> It makes it more convenient to move the mini from room to room within
> ones house. Now you need to move a monitor just to browse the web.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 07:23:44 -0400
> Ricardo Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was just wondering why people find this so important? Monitors are
>> very
> cheap and you can even hook up Your Mac to newer TVs.
>> On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>
>>> I myself have not reported but I might even though I own a macbook.
>>>
>>> Take care.
>>> On Mar 31, 2010, at 5:34 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good evening,
>>>>
>>>> Has this issue been reported to [email protected]? Perhaps
> there's nothing that they can do, but it might be worth sending a
> quick message.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Everett Zufelt
>>>> http://zufelt.ca
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2010-03-31, at 8:31 PM, Dan Roy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yes, that's definitely true, I wish I had known that before I
> purchased the mini, but, live and learn.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:35 AM, M BROWN wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Several months ago I bought a Mac Mini without a monitor.
>>>>>> Everything
> went well until I tried to use Safari to browse the web. To say the
> least, it was painfully slow, and at times refused to open the web
> page at all. All I got was Safari busy. However, when I attached a
> monitor, all the above problems went away. Even though I do not have
> the monitor powered up, it still works perfectly. So, just a warning
> to anyone buying a Mac Mini who intends to browse the web, forget
it > unless you have a monitor attached.
>>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>>> Martin
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