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I stopped by my authorized Apple reseller this morning, The Mac Guys, just to check on my mini order from last Friday and they said, "How did you know?"
The mini had just come in 5 minutes earlier. I was going to use it with my pc monitor and so I stopped at Best Buy to pick up a kvm switch. When I questioned the BB guy about which switch to get, telling him I had a Mac, he said "I hate Macs". Give that guy a gold star for great customer interaction.
The switch was about $53 and so I went over to look at the monitors, especially the 17" Westinghouse widescreen that matches the mini. It was on sale for $50 off at $249. I considered that minus the cost of the kvm switch it would bring the cost down to $200, so I got it. It looks great and I also got the Apple wireless keyboard and a wireless Kensington 2 button mouse.
Unfortunately I had a hard time getting the mini set up, which was very frustrating. It was frustrating because I work 3rd shift and Friday (today) is the start of my weekend and I don't sleep after work on Friday morning. So by late afternoon when I was trying to get the mini set up I had been up for over 24 hours and was figuring it to be a slam bang job and it wasn't. The trouble was that the mini could not recognize the wireless Kensington mouse.
My first 2 calls to the store I talked with a guy who was not my salesperson.
He treated me with that calm voice and demeanor like I was a child or the village idiot and I wanted to slap him. The 3rd time I talked with my salesman and he said to just come on down and he would lend me a mouse and keyboard for the weekend to get things set up and that did the trick. From then on it was clear sailing, even for a new Mac user. Amazingly I have been up for 32 hours now, but this is a great looking system and the monitor is great for the price.
The mini had just come in 5 minutes earlier. I was going to use it with my pc monitor and so I stopped at Best Buy to pick up a kvm switch. When I questioned the BB guy about which switch to get, telling him I had a Mac, he said "I hate Macs". Give that guy a gold star for great customer interaction.
The switch was about $53 and so I went over to look at the monitors, especially the 17" Westinghouse widescreen that matches the mini. It was on sale for $50 off at $249. I considered that minus the cost of the kvm switch it would bring the cost down to $200, so I got it. It looks great and I also got the Apple wireless keyboard and a wireless Kensington 2 button mouse.
Unfortunately I had a hard time getting the mini set up, which was very frustrating. It was frustrating because I work 3rd shift and Friday (today) is the start of my weekend and I don't sleep after work on Friday morning. So by late afternoon when I was trying to get the mini set up I had been up for over 24 hours and was figuring it to be a slam bang job and it wasn't. The trouble was that the mini could not recognize the wireless Kensington mouse.
My first 2 calls to the store I talked with a guy who was not my salesperson.
He treated me with that calm voice and demeanor like I was a child or the village idiot and I wanted to slap him. The 3rd time I talked with my salesman and he said to just come on down and he would lend me a mouse and keyboard for the weekend to get things set up and that did the trick. From then on it was clear sailing, even for a new Mac user. Amazingly I have been up for 32 hours now, but this is a great looking system and the monitor is great for the price.