Got my Mac mini!

A few hours ago, the good people at UPS dropped off my new little Mac mini (a name which I still don't like).

I'm still amazed at how small this thing is! It fits [comfortably] underneath my monitor stand with room to spare. Of course, we went for the upper-end mini, with 512 megs RAM and included wi-fi. I haven't had a chance to install any software on it, but looking forward to putting the whole Macromedia Studio 2004 suite on there later today.

And it was nice to see that it also includes iLife 05 so I can see how horribly the computer will fail with GarageBand 2. Which reminds me, I was shocked to hear a bootup sound when the Mac first loaded up and prompted me to register. This thing is barely bigger than a regular CD-ROM drive and they somehow managed to squeeze in a tiny speaker!

If you want to check out more on the Mac mini, I'll be posting pictures here shortly (after I transfer them from the digital camera and resize them), but in the meantime you can check out the fantastic page at the AppleInsider.

























Posted by peter on January 21, 2005 at 04:13 PM
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Does anybody have any good recommendations for a nice KVM switch with at least 2 (preferrably 4) ports and USB support?

These darned futuristic Macs don't have PS2 ports, so my piece of crap Linksys 2 port KVM is useless.

Looking at the "Belkin OmniView SOHO Series 4-Port KVM Switch with Audio", but it is getting less than encouraging reviews on Amazon.

Posted by: peter at January 21, 2005 04:19 PM