Thursday, January 13. 2005
Is Mac Mini the answer?
Tim Bray asks a variation on the question I've been asking for 2 days now -
Is a Mac Mini the answer for my wife?
We're about ready to set K up with an office in the new house. Wireless is available, but the lathe-and-plaster construction makes it iffy - so I've got a few pieces of Home-Powerline networking equipment to solve that problem. But she still gets frustrated when the computer doesn't cooperate. I can put together a decent computer for a good price, but linux is out for her, the interface just isn't ready for a user like her. So that's an extra $200 for the OS on her computer - and then maybe Office, although I think I'll be able to switch her to OpenOffice. But with all that, a sub-$600 computer is going to have occasional issues, and she wants it to just work.
So she needs good quality hardware, speed, stability, and an easy-to-use interface. My buddy timroff has been telling me Mac is the answer for a long time, but the cost was just outtahere.
But at $499, or even $599, the OS is included, it's a stable, proven operating system and interface, and it includes some neat software. What it doesn't include is Office, but like I said, I think OpenOffice is a possibility.
So chime in. Is the Mac Mini the answer? Or do I just get the best quality components I can and pony up for XP Home?
Is a Mac Mini the answer for my wife?
We're about ready to set K up with an office in the new house. Wireless is available, but the lathe-and-plaster construction makes it iffy - so I've got a few pieces of Home-Powerline networking equipment to solve that problem. But she still gets frustrated when the computer doesn't cooperate. I can put together a decent computer for a good price, but linux is out for her, the interface just isn't ready for a user like her. So that's an extra $200 for the OS on her computer - and then maybe Office, although I think I'll be able to switch her to OpenOffice. But with all that, a sub-$600 computer is going to have occasional issues, and she wants it to just work.
So she needs good quality hardware, speed, stability, and an easy-to-use interface. My buddy timroff has been telling me Mac is the answer for a long time, but the cost was just outtahere.
But at $499, or even $599, the OS is included, it's a stable, proven operating system and interface, and it includes some neat software. What it doesn't include is Office, but like I said, I think OpenOffice is a possibility.
So chime in. Is the Mac Mini the answer? Or do I just get the best quality components I can and pony up for XP Home?
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