Apple Mac mini MC239LL/A Desktop

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5 Reviews

1. So glad I got this–and just in time! They are now discontinued; replaced by an ugly, skinny/hard to stand on it’s side “new” model with less RAM and a slower 2.4GHZ processor. The graphics in the “new” one might be “better” but I’m not a gamer and I don’t give a rat’s patootie about HDMI. And the jury’s still out about the built in power supply–if my power supply dies, I plug in another one instead of replacing the whole motherboard like with the “new” model. Bottom line, I’ll take this 2.53 with more RAM and faster processor for $100 LESS than the “new” $699 “improved” Mini anyday

2. I have been a MS PC person for over 25 years, not really by choice, but by exposure and necessity. My Apple experience was extremely limited to the Apples at school and as most people of the 80′s and 90′s know, those were absolute garbage. While I could appreciate what the higher end Macs were capable of, I was never going to be exposed to one and could not afford one and therefore have put off Apple for many years.

   The price was still an issue. I didn’t even know the Mac Mini existed until I saw one at work(not a Mac friendly place). I realized that the price was no more an issue.

   I received my Mac Mini three weeks ago. I was surprised at how quickly it started up.

   I immediately started putting it to the test. Can it see the router? No problem. Can it go online? I didn’t even have to ask. Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office? They all work great. My RAZR(yeah, i’m old school) was a nightmare to sync in Windows. iSync said that it needed a device added to sync to and I knew that I finally got it. I was the asked if I wanted to add my RAZR and away it went; the Mac probably saw the phone in the other room. Microsoft and Motorola couldn’t do this why?

   I have Parallels running XP in a virtual machine. That works just fine. I can run my Windows version of Adobe CS3. I can print postage labels through PayPal on my Dymo label printer; PayPal does not support label printers on Mac for some reason.

   This is also an extremely compact machine. It is quite the space saver.

   This was the best $800 I ever spent!

   The one problem that I encountered is that the power cord does not seem to be very secure. While plugging in USB devices, the power cord inevitably gets hit and seems to fall out very easily.

3. It is working as expected. No surprises. The only downer was the firewire connection provided did not fit my old mini and the connection for the monitor of my old mini did not fit the new one.

4. Unbelivable that macs do not support AVCHD or bluray nativelly .Anyone who has bought an HD camcorder in the last 3 years will be frustrated trying to use a mac to edit there videos. APPLE’s solution is either to use there own codec which either creates very poor qualty videos almost like standard definition or creating huge files 5 times the size of your original. Even worst is that they deliberately cripple there dvd drives using some feature called Riplock that slows the dvd drive to a crawl if you wish to backup your dvd collection. I gues it’s back to windows untill Apple solves these problems

5. It is my 11th computer, all the others have been PC, I am very happy by joining the Mac family. Its is the best of all computers I have known. It is very fast indeed, nevertheless, I miss a microphone.