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Mac Mini business use... any good?
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<blockquote data-quote="James" data-source="post: 70822" data-attributes="member: 7582"><p>I know what you mean, when I first purchased my PowerMac G5 and the iMac G5 for the wife I couldn't believe the number of messages i saw from people complaining how noisy they were...NOISY?? I couldn't believe how quiet they were after running a P4 3.o and an Amd 64bit, both water cooled gamers...As for the second bunch of complainers, they are always there no matter what. If God would come to earth and put a new computer on the market there would be thousands *****ing about it...</p><p></p><p>Your right, quite a few business would be able to use the Mac Mini to do word processing and other non intensive jobs, but that really isn't where the most usage will come from as most business are rather locked into the Winders world. The main customer for the mini will be the home user probably looking for a cheap way to get on the internet and want a low priced system. From what i can see, the mini will fill that bill just great.</p><p></p><p>The ease of use of OS X and its power will make the mini a force to be dealt with amoung low priced systems. I know personally i would much rather have the Mac Mini than the Dell $499 system, or any other system out there under $1000.</p><p></p><p>You talk about Office 2004 being great, have you seen and tried Open Office?, great stuff there and free...or on the Mac, better yet try NeoOfficeJ which is an OS X version of Open Office, also free... can't beat the price and both are Word/Excel/Access compatable...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James, post: 70822, member: 7582"] I know what you mean, when I first purchased my PowerMac G5 and the iMac G5 for the wife I couldn't believe the number of messages i saw from people complaining how noisy they were...NOISY?? I couldn't believe how quiet they were after running a P4 3.o and an Amd 64bit, both water cooled gamers...As for the second bunch of complainers, they are always there no matter what. If God would come to earth and put a new computer on the market there would be thousands *****ing about it... Your right, quite a few business would be able to use the Mac Mini to do word processing and other non intensive jobs, but that really isn't where the most usage will come from as most business are rather locked into the Winders world. The main customer for the mini will be the home user probably looking for a cheap way to get on the internet and want a low priced system. From what i can see, the mini will fill that bill just great. The ease of use of OS X and its power will make the mini a force to be dealt with amoung low priced systems. I know personally i would much rather have the Mac Mini than the Dell $499 system, or any other system out there under $1000. You talk about Office 2004 being great, have you seen and tried Open Office?, great stuff there and free...or on the Mac, better yet try NeoOfficeJ which is an OS X version of Open Office, also free... can't beat the price and both are Word/Excel/Access compatable... [/QUOTE]
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