So, a question for anyone who has used one, and more familiar with Mac world performance that I am - how does it stack up against the rest of the range.
So far, after a few days of use, I'm quite impressed with the mini. I've got the bog-standard model with bog-standard RAM and it performs very nicely. No problems with bog-standard computing (eg running Safari, Pages, Camino and a handful of other apps).
I found that even with the bog-standard configuration I've got, the mini has so far been extremely responsive and perfectly fast enough to get everything I wanted to do, done.
The only resource-hungry thing I've tried with it is Garageband; after adding the fourth loop in a 30-second-long song, the computer started to complain. I was only noodling around, but you get the idea.
At this price you're not getting anything more than the basics. But I think that as a computer for basic tasks, the mini is hard to beat. If I had a school age child pestering me for a 'puter right now, I'd get them a mini. And if my brother hadn't gone and bought a Windows PC for my mum, I'd buy her a mini too.
I'm not so confident about upgrade paths. I've never been very confident messing around with the innards of computers, and I wouldn't want to try anything more adventurous than a RAM upgrade on the the mini. I've no doubt that more confident hardware geeks could have all sorts of fun with it, but it's worth remembering that there's very little room for manoeuvre in that tiny case. One flick of your wrist in the wrong direction and you might break something important.
- Giles
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