Two notes:ġ)The comparison Dell and the mini is fair but Dell doesn't sell any standard configuration computers. jaxcs2002 - Thursday, Februlink Hey good aricle but you tried to discuss too many things with this article.It's not the monster of spec benchmarks, but, most people, including technical people who you might think would care, simply don't care about those numbers.
The Mini is a pretty good computer, and a very good *product*. It's not quite the standard Solaris, BSD, or Linux environment, but it's close enough for most things. If you're in the Unix niche, a Mac is nice because it has Unix under the hood. These things matter a lot if you work with documents. Even the old AppleWorks clip art is pretty good (not really good, but, ok for "free" clipart). Printing is smoother (and the addition of gimp-print is a big plus). (Yes, I'm getting one of those too.)Īlso, going with any Mac at all gets you the better aesthetics that Windows lacks, and Linux totally lacks.
#Iwork for mac review Pc#
A fairly comparable SFF PC (like the AOpen that's quiet) with the same RAM and larger hard drive, and slightly faster CPU, costs almost the same, and lacks the software. A SFF PC / OS combo to match the Mini simply cannot be purchased. The price/performance ratios suck, but the overall fit and finish, and very nice software, more than compensate for the approximaely $150 premium you pay for going with a Mac. There's definitely something to be said for carrying your entire development environment around, but without spending all the $$ for a laptop.
#Iwork for mac review portable#
It is a decent development machine, at least for smaller database driven websites, and is portable enough to tote to the office. It's very quiet (meaning it doesn't add to the noise in the office), reasonably quick, and very easy on the eyes.
#Iwork for mac review software#
I've been mostly using Pages and I don't make presentations too often, so I will save in-depth discussion of Keynote 2 for a later article, but there are a few things that I did find nice about the software that I'll mention here. Pages is a document publishing application in its first iteration Keynote 2 is the second version of Apple's presentation software. Priced at $79, iWork is cheaper than a single copy of Microsoft Word and obviously cheaper than Microsoft Office, but only comes with two applications - Pages and Keynote 2. Although it doesn't ship with the Mac mini, Apple's new "work oriented" application suite, iWork, was released alongside the mini.
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