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Mac mini - I love it!

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  1. I.T. Guy

    I.T. Guy F1 World Champ

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    I just bought a Mac mini with Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. I love this thing! It's hooked up to dual 22" monitors. Awesome and cheap. Highly recommended!
     
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    Sweet! Those little guys have come a long way in the past couple of upgrades. I assume you already had the monitors?

    Did you switch from Windows? Anything you can't do now that you did before? ;)

    Cheers,
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    Control + Alt + Delete to reboot from a crash...

    :D :D :D
     
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    Yes I had the monitors already. I have all Mac at home but this unit replaced my work pc. I only Remote Desktop windows and servers all day so I'm missing nothing! :). I might play with parallels and windows 7 but no real need by using RDP all day.
     
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    and it doesn't crash !!!
     
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    That's one slick little device. I wonder how it performs with a modern OS on it.
     
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    great little machine ... no complaints ...
     
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    I just upgraded to 8GB of memory,
    And installed Parallels with Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010.

    Now I do not have to RDP anymore into a windows box I have everything in dual screen goodness right here on the Mac when PC work is required.

    Works awesome!
     
    I.T. Guy, Nov 29, 2010
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    Oooo What type of RAM cards does it take? I may do this myself. Currently running on 2GB .
     
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    I've out of the loop for a while but I didn't know the Mac Mini could support two monitors. Very impressive.
     
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    Kingston part number kta-mb1066k2/8g is the complete 8gb kit (2x4gb sodimm) apple compatible but 1/10 the apple price :)

    Make sure you have a mid-2010 2.4 or 2.66 mini as you can only go 4gb max if it's an earlier model.

    I love it - with windows and osx both open I still have 5gb free so opening and leaving stuff open it never swaps which is great for keeping Fchat fast while working :)
     
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    Yeah what a great CHEAP desktop. It's tiny and has everything including hdmi!
     
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