On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote:
On 10/05/2009 12:36 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
Apple hasn't been as free with their hardware in the past (the 68k
systems) and the iPod/IPhone are in that group, but the x86 systems have
been fairly open to different
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Hewitt_Tech hewitt_t...@comcast.netwrote:
What bugged me about the way Apple sells the Mini is their deliberate
withholding of information from the customer so that the customer
Tom Buskey wrote:
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com
mailto:kluss...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Hewitt_Tech
hewitt_t...@comcast.net mailto:hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
What bugged me about the way Apple sells
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
I bought a mini in March to use as a media center. I bought the Apple
remote which just works. I had USB keyboards. I bought a bluetooth
keyboard and mouse - they just worked. I bought a mini dvi to VGA adapter
that just
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Joseph ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey Everyone,
I agree with all of your assessments thus far. Woudn't it be great if Apple
opened up it's hardware model to allow for 3rd party hardware companies and
just sold the OS? I don't think I would buy it even then
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Joseph ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey Everyone,
I agree with all of your assessments thus far. Woudn't it be great if Apple
opened up it's hardware model to allow for 3rd party hardware companies and
just sold the OS? I don't think I would buy it even then
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote:
I just spent about 30 seconds on their site, and found the Mac Mini tech
specs. You need this:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB570Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQmco=MTA4NTYxMDQ
Alex mentioned VGA. That adapter provides DVI.
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
I got a mini displayport to composite adapter. *bzzt*. ... I had to get
a vga to composite converter to get analog output to my TV. That was about
$30 and not available from apple.
...
... the mini just works for everything
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
FYI, Mini DisplayPort is apparently Yet Another Apple Proprietary
Connector. Apple does love making goofy connectors. I guess it's
somewhat forgivable in this case, given the small form factor of the
Mini. And at least
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote:
I just spent about 30 seconds on their site, and found the Mac Mini tech
specs. You need this:
Hi,
I have been watching this conversation for the past couple of days, and
I would just like to throw in a small observation.
People like Apple because of their design, because things plug together
seamlessly, because everything works well.
One simple reason for this is that Apple controls, to
www.apple.com
In the top navbar, click Mac
In the navbar that comes up under that click Mac Mini
In the Mac Mini navbar, click Tech Specs
There is a section In the box that describes what it comes with (which
does not include a keyboard and mouse) and there is a section called
Graphics and
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote:
Alex mentioned VGA. That adapter provides DVI.
Perhaps you should have spent more than 30 seconds. ;-)
Actually, he said my existing monitor, keyboard, and mouse without
specifying.
*sigh*
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:
Hi,
I have been watching this conversation for the past couple of days, and
I would just like to throw in a small observation.
People like Apple because of their design, because things plug together
seamlessly, because
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
I got a mini displayport to composite adapter. *bzzt*. ... I had to get
a vga to composite converter to get analog output to my TV. That was
about
While I find the Apple OS to be pretty sweet, mostly due to the fact that it
is Unix based now, I just don't see any justification for the cost of their
systems. Someone I follow on twitter tried to convince me of how cheap
their systems are and I ended up halting the conversation with a small
To be completely fair, there are a considerable number of other hardware
components in a Mac than: Screen size, RAM, Hard Drive space, and CPU.
Let's take the screen, and I have some experience in this dept. as I've
been working on a project for the past couple years that has evaluated
about five
While you make valid points, it definitely comes down to the person.
I am and will always be a person who LOVES their desktop real estate and you
are correct, my max resolution is 1440x900. But, I am also able to adapt to
a slightly smaller resolution considering the money I saved.
While I am
Hey Everyone,
I agree with all of your assessments thus far. Woudn't it be great if Apple
opened up it's hardware model to allow for 3rd party hardware companies and
just sold the OS?I don't think I would buy it even then but it would be a
break from their monopolistic hardware/software
A couple of notes about the Mac Mini. The general stance Apple has taken
over the years is that the Mini only exists because customers insisted there
be a model like it in it's price range. It is not Apple's you're new to
Mac, but this system. When Apple wants to sell a new-to-Mac user a machine,
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