Thanks to all for the pointers. I will be setting up the Mac Mini this weekend, and ponder the info provided.
Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Malcolm Greene > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 12:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Opinion Needed about "The Dark Side" > > > Gil, > > I would use a professionally hosted email service (lots to choose from > these days) and store all your email and calendar data on a remote > server. This way you avoid the entire hassle of choosing a > multi-platform email client and you free yourself of all the > problems/risks associated with Outlook PST files. If you're paranoid (a > guess!), you can do weekly backups and/or redirect your incoming email > to multiple email services so you have a backup if your primary service > fails in some way. > > Another advantage of this approach is that you can access your mail and > calendar across any one of the growing family of workstations you seem > to be accumulating<g>. > > Malcolm > > > ----- Original message ----- > From: "Gil Hale" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:29:15 -0500 > Subject: Opinion Needed about "The Dark Side" > > Greetings all! > > I am seeking input from my associates re: a project that is actually for > me > this time. > > I picked up a Mac Mini the other month, and have yet to deploy it in my > office, although that was the intent. It kind of made its way into the > living room for testing with the new NetFlix capability of using both IE > and > FireFox, and now for both Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X, for on demand > movies over a high speed Internet connection. It has worked well for > that > purpose with the wide-screen TV/Monitor, but represents a huge waste of > the > investment into the Mac Mini, as well as not allowing me to deploy the > Mac > where I intended it to go anyway. > > The other week Lynda (wife) ordered an Asus 900 Netbook (Notebook) from > BestBuy.com. Initially I snickered as usually these Netbooks are so > pathetic in terms of delivering the kind of punch I felt I need. But > when > it arrived I set it up and am now a believer that weaker CPUs with the > 1Gb > of RAM this unit shipped with (I still pumped it up to 2Gb RAM, just > cuz), > with a 120Gb HDD, can actually be useful. I was so impressed with the > unit, > and the Sale Price of $249, that I ordered two more, but with the Atom > CPU > for hyperthreading capability as opposed to her Celeron M CPU. I also > got > 160Gb HDD and a 10" screen as opposed to her 9" screen. I must admit > that I > like her smaller unit more, just out of appreciation of its power in > such a > nice and small package. Also, the Atom CPU runs at 1.6Ghz as opposed to > her > Celeron M at 900Mhz. The Atom handles hyerthreading. But side by side > I > can not detect any practical difference in performance, although I am > still > running with the basic 1Gb RAM for now. Okay, on to the matter at hand > now > that you have some background... > > I figured the Asus 1000HD unit I got for myself (the other one is for a > friend of ours) will never replace my current HP notebook I travel with > (1024 x 768 for the HP notebook vs 1024 x 600 for the Asus netbook), but > will come in handy for demo and projects I do not want to run on my > regular > notebook for "whatever" reason. When not in use I plan to use the Asus > with > NetFlix instead of the Mac Mini, so I can now deploy the Mac where > initially > intended - as my replacement primary eMail and communication PC instead > of > replacing my older AMD 1800 PC used for that purpose with yet another > Windows PC. > > So, the question... My AMD 1800, 2Gb RAM, eMail/Communication PC is > running > M$ Office 2000 with Outlook being used for my eMail, Calendar and > Contact > Management management. I have both Mac Office 2004 and Mac Office 2007 > available to use with the Mac Mini. I retain eMails, with attachments, > form > clients for very long periods of time. My Outlook.pst file is archived > via > Outlook every few months, but is still weighing in at a swollen 571Mg in > size! And it is working well. For all the bad things I could say about > M$, > I must admit I have never had any problems with Outlook 2000, other than > performance at rare times - but that is obviously self-inflicted given > the > size of the Outlook.pst file. > > My concern is that in the Mac (or Linux) I may never get that kind of > application reliability with the amount of info I retain. I need to > know if > anyone has any opinion about any Mac OS X compatible Mac eMail, Calendar > and > Contact Management apps, to include the Mac Office offerings, that they > have > heard or found to be reliable and easy to deal with as Outlook. > > Many thanks in advance. > > > Gil > > > > Gilbert M. Hale > > [email protected] > > 585-359-8085 - Office (Rolls To Cellular) > 585-202-4341 - Cellular/VoiceMail > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
