Re: My oh my, what you can buy (for a lot less than the Mini)...

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:27:48 GMT, George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Also, neither has a CD burner nor a DVD burner and 256 megs of RAM is
>pretty niggardly by today's standards. I don't see either of these
>bottom-feeders as a particularly good deal (but the laptop is definitely
>a better deal than is the desktop). The Mac Mini is starting to look
>better and better. No cheap printer included, no worthless CRT monitor,
>just some excellent and useful apps like Appleworks, iPhoto etc. If you
>already have a nice monitor and printer that you like, you're in like
>Flynn. The Mini has more memory, a CD burner which will at least READ
>DVDs. No, these Office Depot offerings might look like they give you a
>good deal for the money, but on closer inspection, I suspect that most
>people would prefer more memory to the cheap printer, and a DVD/CD-RW
>drive to the CRT monitor.

Read the fine print yourself. For another $250 you could upgrade both
machines to 512 mb, get 80 mb on the desktop, add wireless to the
laptop, get a DVD on the desktop, and upgrade the desktop printer to a
very nice all-in-one. That would give you 2 nice, basic, machines for
under $700.

And so what if they don't run OS X. That just means that 512 mb of
ram is plenty!
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My position is that Windows is workable

TravelinMan
14:17:58 CST, 11/10/2005
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