Urgent Help Opinions On Buying An Apple Mac Mini Wanted

violet0019 · Oct 18, 2005, 05:02 PM

I have been using a PC for the past 7 years and now there is a big change coming - I am purchasing a 1.42ghz, 80 gb, combo drive MAC MINI. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW if I should purchase it online via apple.ca, or at Best Buy.

The price is the same $749. (canadian dollars). It comes with a l year warranty and plus, if I pay for it using my credit card I will receive an extra year of extended warranty (via a plan they have with an insurance company)!! That sounds great! AND ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE APPRECIATED, BUT I NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU ASAP PLEASE!! THANKS! (PLEASE: no big words .I DO NOT UNDERSTAND COMPUTER LINGO AS I AM SELF TAUGHT AND BASICALLY KNOW JUST INTERNET SURFING AND EMAIL!)

violet0019 · Jan 23, 2006, 09:29 AM

Thanks for your reply.
I DID purchase a MAC - MINI, and so far, I am very pleased. And yes,
definitely less problems with viruses!
I appreciate your opinion!

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Originally Posted by bausman

Violet,

I have used both Macs and PCs and find Macs the easiest to use and configure, especially for what you are trying to do. They do not get as many viruses but they can get them, especially from pornographic web sites. It would be well worth purchasing Norton Anti-virus to put on the Mac to protect it.

I don't agree with ScottGem on the Mac being a specialized machine. I manage a large network and out of the 5 administrators there, all of us run PowerBook G4s (Mac laptops) to manage the network. With the advent of OS X (the operating system on Macintosh) it has become the most versitile machine i have ever used. Our network has Unix (Solaris), Linux, Windows, and Macintosh machines and we can control them all from a Mac - I can't do that from a Windows machine. For me, it is a great machine.

I hope this helps.

jc105 · May 2, 2006, 12:29 PM

I am going to give my pro-mac story.

I'm a tech, I've worked on amny PC's for families. EVERY family has had followup problems within 6 months, spyware etc. My one friend got me to give him my old G4...

Not a word, we are onto 1 year and 6 months. there are 2 adults with no computer knowledge and 4 kids. Thats like a freaking honeypot for virii if I ever heard one!

All I have to say is the native explorer, Safari, may not be perfect but like others have said, less virii in general and less people trying to exploit Macs. The techs that write the exploits prolly hate MS as much as the rest of us. Apple makes a standup product, nothing to complain about.

In reference to Best Buy vs. Apple online store. Go with direct from apple and DEFINITELY get the extended apple care. Its always worth it. You may want to watch a deal on them may come out anytime.

violet0019 · May 3, 2006, 06:23 AM

Wow I was surprised to receive your opinion/reply as I had posted this last autumn!! Thank you, anyways. And just to let everyone know - we DID get the Apple Mini, at Bestbuy and I am VERY VERY glad - all is well - I will NEVER switch. I am Apple Addicted!!

8more · Jun 23, 2006, 11:03 AM

I have used a mac for over 12 years and also pc. With the new mac mini which runs on the Intel chip you can run both mac os and windows os. thus you can run all the pc programs you have. That said, I love my mac, my pc laptop is just for some specialized business software. You may find that the included i'life software addicting. Take your photos and video and create dvds, blogs, etcs with music that you can import or create.. I have found it one of the most personally gratifying things I do with a computer and my family and friends are extremely grateful for the shared memories.

I also run much of my business off the mac. Accounting, creating marketing material, databases, etc. BTW, in twelve years, never a virus or hard drive replacement due to failure. Once I had a defective board in an old laptop. It was covered under an extended warrenty so I got a new laptop at no additional cost after using the Wallstreet model for 2.5 years.