Mossberg on Mini
Walter Mossberg is all about the Mac mini today:
WM doesn't really get into the Mini's specs or performance in any meaningful way other than how it works as a media center--which pretty much seems to sum up how Mossberg views it. Essentially, he's looking at it purely from its capablities as a media center.
Speaking from personal experience, that makes sense. Our mini is almost entirely used as a media center (and this is the old model, before Front Row). When I want to do some, you know, computing, I unplug my display and jack it into my PowerBook. Aside from the odd iChat or web browsing, it pretty much exists to deliver music to the home entertainment system.
This is a review of an interesting new entertainment-center component that happens to also be a personal computer -- a computer fully capable of, say, creating a spreadsheet, but one you might never use that way. This new product also happens to be a new Macintosh model from Apple Computer, but, in its entertainment-system role, it works perfectly with Windows computers.OMG! Snap!
WM doesn't really get into the Mini's specs or performance in any meaningful way other than how it works as a media center--which pretty much seems to sum up how Mossberg views it. Essentially, he's looking at it purely from its capablities as a media center.
Speaking from personal experience, that makes sense. Our mini is almost entirely used as a media center (and this is the old model, before Front Row). When I want to do some, you know, computing, I unplug my display and jack it into my PowerBook. Aside from the odd iChat or web browsing, it pretty much exists to deliver music to the home entertainment system.
