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Thursday, January 20, 2005
Right-sized Mac mini
This is the way office PCs of the future should look like. Unfortunately no PC (read: PC running Windows) provider has gone this far yet, but might due to likely competition from Apple. Of course the Mac mini is not good for high-end 3D gaming and such, but for all-things-office the CPU power etc is there.
For a PC provider to succeed with the same feat they need to make a custom mother board, but if you've looked in a notebook (I have) the mother board is very small there, so the best choice for mini-PC technology is what you have in your Dell (or whatever) notebook. Then you also get low power-consumption, very low heat dissipation, a silent (or no) fan etc etc.
There are no (and there's no need for) expansion slots. All relevant connectors are integrated.
It's actually so small that you most likely can't put the screen on top of it (if it even would be able to carry the weight).
Apple - Mac mini
Reviews and previews:
CNET - Apple Mac Mini
arstechnica - The Mac mini preview
About - Mac mini review
ExtremeTech complains that the price is too high, but in a corporate setting the initial price is not the issue, but long-term maintenance and user hazzle. Not many companies understand that though.
ExtremeTech - The Mac Mini: Less Than You Think
For a PC provider to succeed with the same feat they need to make a custom mother board, but if you've looked in a notebook (I have) the mother board is very small there, so the best choice for mini-PC technology is what you have in your Dell (or whatever) notebook. Then you also get low power-consumption, very low heat dissipation, a silent (or no) fan etc etc.
There are no (and there's no need for) expansion slots. All relevant connectors are integrated.
It's actually so small that you most likely can't put the screen on top of it (if it even would be able to carry the weight).
Apple - Mac mini
Reviews and previews:
CNET - Apple Mac Mini
arstechnica - The Mac mini preview
About - Mac mini review
ExtremeTech complains that the price is too high, but in a corporate setting the initial price is not the issue, but long-term maintenance and user hazzle. Not many companies understand that though.
ExtremeTech - The Mac Mini: Less Than You Think
