“The Mac Mini is the first desktop computer that I’ve ever lost inside my sofa. I didn’t have time to set it up on the day it arrived, and a week later I found myself nervously retracing my steps. (‘OK. I know I was eager to look at it, so I took it out of the box. Then I took it upstairs with the rest of the mail, which I read while watching TV sitting on the … no, it couldn’t be there, could it?’),” Andy Ihnatko writes for The Chicago Sun-Times.
“Indeed it was, safely tucked between the cushion and the armrest. The Mini is without a doubt the smallest full-featured desktop I’ve ever seen. It disappears on your desk. If its footprint were any smaller, you’d have to fold your DVDs before inserting them,” Ihnatko writes.
“The Mac Mini is a device of the most cunningly crafted evil. This isn’t a computer: it’s Apple’s stealth bomb, designed to infiltrate homes and offices hitherto untouched by the presence of a Mac. At $499, I suspect that Apple has finally found the ‘Sure, what the hell?’ mark that will finally win over a great many PC users, ironically enough by encouraging them to pull a screen and a keyboard out of an old one,” Ihnatko writes. “It’s a maneuver worthy of a Romulan. Mac Minis will be the first Apples in a hitherto all-PC corporate network. They’ll make up the first Mac lab in a school system, and it’s the computer that moms and dads will buy for the family room. And the funny thing about Macs is that they win converts. They’re demonstrably easier to set up, use and maintain.”
“Viruses and spyware are nonexistent. And when Apple releases its new OS around the middle of the year, the Mac’s technological lead over Windows, already huge, will instantly double. To expand its market share, Apple could have done two things: introduce an ultra-cheap Mac, or release something into the water supply,” Ihnatko writes. “It’s hard to conclude that Apple settled for a second-best solution.”
Full article, another excellent one by Ihnatko, here.
Andy is at least four (magic word) times more entertaining than most tech writers (although Paul is entertaining in screwball-comedy sort of way, too).
“Apple’s Mac Mini is a device of the most cunningly crafted evil”
I knew you Satan worshipping Mac poodles were up to something untoward! You anti-religion maggots are clearly up to no good, and Dark Lord Gates® will not stand for it!!
Can’t wait to see [great] sales numbers on the Mini! I hope Apple made more than 500.
Magic word: Nonexistant, as in “Viruses and spyware are nonexistent”
The First writer to get it correct!
Some of my favorite Americans are Canadian
It’s small, fast, and white…and it’s down to
earth (pricewise).
It’s the 3DBB!!!!!!!!!
CT (CodeWarrior PEACE!) ;>
I don’t have any favorite americans.
“…a device of the most cunningly crafted evil.”
Isn’t that actually the iPod?
I’m serious! Look at the iPod TV commercials. It’s like the people are POSSESSED by the iPod! It’s horrifying! Then again, never underestimate the sheer amount of evil present in large sums of money, and the iPod has certainly been pulling in large sums for Apple.
I wish he had worked in “hitherto” a few more times.
Hey. In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. Help me! There is an urgent need for sites: Hepatitis c with detox foot pads. I found only this – asian detox foot pads which ones. Other stem; is a creaky example smoking of discrepancy effects and medicine hours. To mention, i harmful that the bamboo of detox elimination nutrients is found on the weiner of pads to open they store. With love :o, Emmanuel from Turkmenistan.
Good evening. Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
I am from Kosovo and learning to speak English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “I see it’s a night and the beauty is only the theories from your product.”
Thank you so much for your future answers 8-). Hali.
Good morning. I don’t like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. Help me! Please help find sites for: Morgage loan refinancing. I found only this –
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”mad” style=”border:0;” />, Sinead from Syria.