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)
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[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
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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.
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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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