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Welcome to my new review BLOG on the \t\t\tApple Mac Mini.<\/font><\/p>\n Yes, I am aware of the new Intel based Apple Mac’s but lets \t\t\tface it complete upgrades hardware architecture always result in a \t\t\tperiod of adjustment. I’m not going to wait another 2 years \t\t\tbefore Apple gets it together again.<\/font><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n The reason why I got one was because I was tired of \t\t\tthe viruses, spam, adware, ever increasing costs of anti-virus \t\t\tsubscriptions and now firewalls, increasing CPU usage and site management problems with the \t\t\tWindows based computers. I figured there must be a easier why \t\t\tto maintain a website and stuff like that. So the Mac Mini is \t\t\tto test out Apple stuff in general. – Hmm Long Term Window user. \t\t\tSo here’s my Apple Mac Mini review.<\/font><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n I mean the config required when my main internet \t\t\tdevelopment machine \t\t\tfails for what ever reason or I need to reinstall – it takes days to \t\t\tget it right again. So we’ll see if a full migration to the \t\t\tMac is worth all the hassle and cost !<\/font><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n The event that prompted the acquisition was the \t\t\tfailure of the Norton Internet Security program. This program \t\t\twas supposed to safe guard my work machine a decent ASUS V6V \t\t\tnotebook, which I must add has performed without any problems what \t\t\tso ever since purchase earlier this year. Anyway over the new \t\t\tyear an update of their software caused the firewall side of things \t\t\tto fail. I didn’t realise this until I got back from holidays \t\t\tand tried to use my email program which is Eudora 6.2. I use Eudora \t\t\tas my main email program because its easy to use and has never been \t\t\tbuggy or had security issues. I use Palm desktop for the \t\t\tcalendar etc.. because it works perfectly with my <\/font>Palm TX<\/font><\/a>. (Yes I \t\t\thad a MS based PDA but it was a forgettable experience)<\/font><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n So when I tried to get mail things started playing \t\t\tup. I thought it was just a temp bug 9when you’ve used windows \t\t\tfor years that’s the sort of thinking you get into) but realised that this \t\t\tmachine doesn’t play up for no reason. I thought back to how \t\t\tsluggish the shut down process was before the new year and a \t\t\tmysterious Norton error – but the message only appeared once so I \t\t\tignored it. Anyway I spent at least a day trying to work out \t\t\twhat was going on as the Eudora appeared to the problem. So \t\t\tvirus checked the whole machine – nothing. Ran the MS – virus \t\t\tchecker – Nothing. Checked Eudora versions etc.. – nothing. \t\t\tThen checked the firewall – Yes. Searched the web and came up \t\t\twith only one article about the problem.<\/font><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n To cut the story short I had to erase the firewall \t\t\trules and reset the thing. I no longer trust Symantec or \t\t\tNorton products and will probably not ‘upgrade’ it this year. \t\t\tSpeaking of which I let Norton subscription lapse after the trial \t\t\tperiod (it came with the V6V) to see whether it was cripple-ware and \t\t\tworked out that it wasn’t working properly – it stopped removing \t\t\tviruses (yes a 1 year old one that will remain nameless for testing \t\t\tpurposes). What a joke ! I updated \t\t\tthe subscription this year to verify that this was the case and what \t\t\tdo you know – confirmed my assessment. Hmm…I might try again this \t\t\tyear and report my findings.<\/font><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n Anyway back to the Mac Mini review – Why did I put up the \t\t\treview page ? I’m not exactly attached \t\t\tto Apple products. (This is the first in 20 years Shock Horror – I \t\t\tdon’t even have a iPod.) but I couldn’t \t\t\tfind what I wanted with internet searches so I decided to add one \t\t\tmore site. <\/font><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n So what’s the spec of my Mac Mini ? It’s a 2006 model – Apple Mac Mini<\/font><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t1.42GHz PowerPC G4 \t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n I didn’t purchase any additional software apart from what came in the box for the \tApple Mac’s so it will be interesting to see what I’ll havee to get. Hope you can hang \taround.<\/font><\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to my new review BLOG on the Apple Mac Mini. 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\n1GB RAM
\n32MB ATI Radeon 9200
\n80GB HD
\nSuperDrive (DVD\u00c2\u00b1RW\/CD-RW)
\nBuilt-in AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth
\nMac OS X Tiger 10.4.4
\n<\/span>iLife ’06 <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n