Mac Mini

Took delivery of one of these yesterday to play with in the office and test
some software on.

From the online ordering process on Apple's web site to the packaging; from
the hardware set-up to the software, the whole thing just oozes *SLICK*.

It is a delightful bit of kit.

I'm very impressed.

Shame it doesn't run KDE and its applications aren't X clients or I might be
swayed.

 

You can run X apps under OSX fairly easily, although they jar a bit with the
rest of the GUI environment (positioning of menus with respect to the
window/screen etc) - although I can't think of anything from the KDE
environment that I'd really need to run on a Mac, give the alternatives.

IT's a shame there isn't a proper OpenOffice port, though.

 

I was given an Ipod Nano for Christmas. However as I get a discount
through work I ended up ordering it myself.

They charged me twice, never phoned me back, never confirmed they'd
made an error.

ITunes is horrid.

The nano itself isn't bad, but it's hardly ground breaking - and not
being able to delete a song off the thing without using Itunes seems..
odd.

So "SLICK" is not quite the word I would use, but there you do. UKRM
always has someone who will disagree.

 

That's one of the best features imo, mainly because SO's rap & hip-hop
loving son now has an iPod full of Elton John & the Carpenters, & no
idea how to get rid of them. That'll teach him to leave it laying it
around ;-)


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Me neither, i deal with Apple quite a lot and the minimum time to get
to talk to someone with regard to warranty repair is 15 mins, like
earlier today.

Apple, there best eaten.

Alan

 

Made me laugh like a drain ;-)

 

Doesn't the OO port for FreeBSD work, perhaps you may have to re-compile
it? After all Mac OSX is based on FreeBSD.

 

And if Anne's nano is anything to go by they are a pain as they
"disappear" from iTunes from time to time.

 

'Ve haff to be cruel to be kind'.

Phil

 

#We've only just begun...

You sick man.

 

*lovely*

 

Yes but I wanted to run Safari over an SSH connection on an X desktop on
another PC. We had to make do with VNC in the end.

KDE is brilliant and properly written KDE applications are very neat. But
you're right, you'd probably not want to run KDE apps on a Mac. Although a
Mac Mini makes a nice cheap X terminal.

 

My ex land lord got a new Powerbook, the upgrade and copy of his old
applications, data and desktop setup was as hard as connecting both via
a firewire cable, switching on the old Mac while holding down the T key,
and then turning on his new Mac.

Easy peasy, and very slick indeed.

 

That used to work with old MacOS ones too - it effectively turns the
old laptop into an external SCSI disc.

It does remind you know and then that Macs were designed for use by
graphic artists - ie people without a shred of computer ability - and
hence designed to be as simple and easy as possible.
Which is irritating when you want it to do something that isn't simple
and it won't let you - and unlike unix/linux there isn't a nice .cfg
file to manually edit. Mind you - Windows is the same..

I hate them all equally.

Phil.

 

Ahh.. that's good.

It was great, even my ex land lord had no trouble moving computers.

Strong thing to say, but valid if you have to work with them all day. I
don't and have become just another user, which is a very good thing for
me indeed.