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Mac mini "utterly unlike anything else on the market"

updated 02:55 pm EST, Fri February 4, 2005

BusinessWeek praises \'mini


In his latest article for BusinessWeek Stephen Wildstrom praises the Mac mini, and says it was "" for Apple to debut such a product. Wildstrom cites the Mac mini's tiny form-factor and low price point: "the real importance of the Mini is that it overcomes the twin barriers that have kept Apple out of many homes: cost and lack of design flexibility." Mr. Wildstrom says "it is utterly unlike anything else on the market" and while bargain-basement PCs may cost even less, "you'll get a box that's big, ugly, and a lot noisier." Wildstrom also observes that the lack of an Apple keyboard or mouse is "mostly as a packaging gimmick," but the PC equivalents work fine with the Mac mini.


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  1. teardrop

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    02/04, 03:25pm | report spam | Reply |

    Dell to follow...

    Yeah, it oughta be about one month until Dell comes out with their tiny Mini Dell copycat PC (and then a Dell Shuffle too). Let us count the days it takes Mike to copycat...

  1. AirRon

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    02/04, 03:42pm | report spam | Reply |

    dunno bout that Dell copy

    It may take a little, gasp, engineering to get one of those Pentiums into a small box without turning it into a tiny little flaming toaster oven.
    I guess the Celerons or a Centrino motherboard would run cool. . . .

  1. cmoney

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    02/04, 04:04pm | report spam | Reply |

    re: dunno

    yeah and once they do all the R&D to build a machine that doesn't use off the shelf parts (since no micro-atx board will get you down to mac mini form factor), they'll have to price it at 2x the mini's price.

  1. legacyb4

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    02/04, 04:15pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: Security

    So OS X's security advantage is mainly because of the fact that few hackers try to break in...

    [quote]
    Mac fans usually overrate OS X's security advantage over Windows. A big part of its edge is that it has not been challenged seriously by hackers, and Apple sends out -- very quietly -- about as many security patches as Microsoft. That said, the Mac does have inherent security advantages, and it is much less prone to the sort of mysterious glitches that often make Windows a challenge.
    [/quote]

  1. adamschneider

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    02/04, 04:29pm | report spam | Reply |

    maybe mainly

    I don't know if it's "mainly" because of the numbers, but that's a very important part of it.

    It's important not to get complacent, lest the Mac market share creeps up to where it IS an attractive target for hackers.

  1. gambit23

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    02/04, 05:01pm | report spam | Reply |

    re: hackers

    Um, doesn't less hackers automatically imply more security anyway? After all, security - while still mattering - DOES need to have hackers to try to break the security, right? So, given that, how is that over-rated compared to Windows?

  1. ecrelin

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    02/04, 05:24pm | report spam | Reply |

    ahh that coffee aroma…

    Suddenly Apple has good enough software? Suddenly you can hook PC peripherals up? Suddenly Apple "got it" and came out with something that "took so long", How zat? Same old security bull that's been going on for years, hacking contests give more points for Apple and *nix derivitives than "the sieve" from Redmond. Apple's security patches are not only proactive, they don't just turn off things, they don't blow your machine up and actually most are for many of the applications like apache and php (not Apple software) not the system. There is no ActiveX and many many many less holes. There hasn't been one successful breach. Do some research… Dell can't touch this, they're just monkeys putting other peoples parts together and their iPod killers are just gathering dust on the shelves. Gotta like all the cozying up though, well welcome aboard this is the future of computer form factor, there is no reason at all for big ugly boxes. 10.3 runs admirably on 5 year old iMacs, how does XP run on 5 year old machines? Think Longshot will run on cool running celerons and centrinos? Ha! It'll still take Apple years and years to ramp up production enough to meet market demands to get big marketshare but they will…

  1. davidvesey

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    02/04, 07:32pm | report spam | Reply |

    It's not the computer..

    Apple is not selling a computer, it's selling OSX and iLife inside a capable computer. Dell doesn't have OSX, so they can't match what Apple is selling.

    dv

  1. mjtomlin

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    02/05, 12:59am | report spam | Reply |

    hackers and security...

    If all hackers are looking for is glory .. wouldn't at least one of them want to be the first to create and spread an OS X virus? This is why the "Security through obscurity" line fails normal logic. I mean come on, imagine being the first hacker to break down this perceived "insanely safe" OS. After fours years... no one has attempted this!?

    Hackers will continue to target Windows based machines because the default install of Windows leaves many, many available openings for something to slip through.

  1. Jonathan-Tanya

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    02/05, 11:54pm | report spam | Reply |

    yippee

    I tell you what, I have a mac mini now. I love it....just so freaking cool, reminds me of the same thrill I got when I bought an Amiga 500 oh so many years ago.

    Finally, a fun, home computer again. And I tell you what, including Xtools for free is brilliant...I love programming the little thing too....used to be all computers came with a programming language...I mean a computer is supposed to 'compute' dang it....

    I tell you what, with mac's going for what they do on the used market...I will buy every revisioin of a mac mini that apple come's out with...sell the old, buy a new... for $150, I can upgrade ever year...

    Apple...you can't rev' this thing fast enough...I will buy every rev'....so get crackin!

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