[Cialug] OT: mac-mini?

[Jerry Weida]

I agree. I use the mac-mini in a windows environment and find that I pretty
much never need to go back for anything. The builtin Samba, NFS, Apache, SSH
is truly great.

I like Safari, but it has a few things that are just kind of wierd. I use
Camino (Mozilla's Mac-Centric browser) and I absolutely love it. Very Safari
like, but uses some of the more conventional things that I've grown fond of
in Firefox.

On 10/20/05, Bryan Baker <ka_klick at mac.com> wrote:
>
> It uses a fairly recent Samba (3.x) for windows style networking. But
> with a bit nicer interface than most *nixes.
> TCP/IP is pretty painless. IPv6 support is there out of box, has built
> in one-click ssh, ftp and apache as well, also NFS, etc. so, it
> networks nicer than XP for my money. MS provides a nice RDP client for
> it too, so you can even do remote windows sessions, it's pretty slick.
>
> I use a Mac laptop as my primary workstation on a Windows/Samba network
> where this (and our Xserve web server) are the only 2 macs in the
> place. Rarely need to use the XP machine sitting next to it, and I'm
> the network admin here.
>
> I love Safari and use it almost exclusively on the Mac. Firefox,
> Mozilla, Opera are all still good and viable options as well, though IE
> is now officially dead on the platform - Hopefully that will help
> pressure some IE-centric websites, but probably not much. Hopefully
> soon they'll release the official version of webkit (safari's core)
> that passes the ACID2 test.
>
> On Oct 20, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Dieke, Steve wrote:
> > I have been thinking about it as well but also have been hesitant. How
> > is the networking aspect? I assume it can connect to XP and *nix
> > systems with relative ease? Also how do you like Safari?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> > Behalf Of Tony Bibbs
> > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 12:37 PM
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] OT: mac-mini?
> >
> > Yeah, simple application. Figured it'd be considerably cheaper than a
> > G5 laptop. Got the keyboard/mouse taken care of.
> >
> > --Tony
> >
> > Bryan Baker wrote:
> >> Don't have a mini, but do know Macs.
> >> If you're not expecting a screaming gaming rig, the mini should be a
> >> good way to dip a toe in.
> >> One caveat, the KB & Mouse will need to be USB - you probably have a
> >> mouse that fits the bill, but maybe not a KB and the mini is BYOKB&M.
> >> It should come w/ a DVI to VGA adapter, so an existing XGA or DVI
> >> monitor should work fine.
> >>
> >> One bonus, if you decide you don't like it, you could use it as a
> >> fancy DVD player/media center, and there's always PPC linux. Macs also
> >
> >> tend to hold a bit more resale value than PCs.
> >>
> >> One other down side of the mini's is they are G4's, but as I said, if
> >> your needs are modest, they're fine.
> >>
> >> On Oct 20, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've been hesitant to jump into a mac desktop or laptop for the sheer
> >
> >>> cost and the change it would impose on me. However, my wife and I
> >>> are looking at buying or building a relatively cheap PC for our kids
> >>> and one we could wire our ipods up to. I immediatley thought this
> >>> might be a good excuse to buy a mac-mini...it would help me determine
> >
> >>> if I like mac's, has decent games for the kids and, obviously, would
> >>> work fine with our ipods.
> >>>
> >>> Figured I'd ask if anybody on this list has a mac-mini and, if so,
> >>> what they think of it.
> >>>
> >>> --Tony
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