Buy Used/3rdParty More product information	Apple Mac mini M9686LL/B (1.25 GHz Power PC G4, 512 MB DDR SDRAM, 40 GB Hard Drive, DVD/CD-RW Drive) List Price: $510.00    Our Price: You Save: 100% Manufacturer: Apple Computer MPN: M9686LL/B Availability: This item is currently not available. Features: Mac OS X version 10.4 Tiger, iLive '05, Mail, and more included 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 processor with 167 MHz system bus 512 MB DDR SDRAM (expandable to 1 GB), 40 GB hard drive, slot-loading Combo Drive (DVD/CD-RW) One FireWire 400 port, two USB 2.0 ports, DVI output, and VGA output (adapter included) Built-in 10/100BASE-T ethernet
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Customer Reviews A mixed bag I'm a long time Windows user, but liked the elegance of Macs and was keen to try something that "just works" as the sales pitch goes. We'll the Mac Mini is a mixed bag. It makes a great table ornament, and it's great to marvel at what is a masterpiece of design and innovation. But I was hoping for more than that. There are pro's to this machine. 1. It comes with heaps of bundled software. However, you're going to get much the same functionality with Windows and any piece of software bundled with hardware that you might buy (eg. DV cameras etc.) 2. OS X is quite elegant in its design. But there are major cons. I'm not sure whether this is because the machine is underpowered, or whether Apples are just not as good as the zealots might claim: 1. It crashes! Far, far more than Windows XP. Occasionally it's a turn-the-computer-off situation, but usually it's just an application crashing, often an Apple application. I think XP is more stable than OS X, despite what people might believe. 2. It's slow. Now this might be because of the low-spec computer, but I think an ugly Intel/AMD box costing about the same would be much faster. 3. Peripherals and drivers are not nearly as well set up for Apple as they are for Windows. The scanning part of my HP MFC just cannot be used on OS X, although it works perfectly on my wife's archaic laptop. My Sony-Ericsson K750i phone does not sync iCal with the USB cable, although it immediately works on Windows/Outlook. 4. The expansion options (apart from the fiddly RAM upgrade that I did) and speeding up the HDD, are negligible. 5. OS X is not nearly as customizable as windows. To customize things (and get some things working) you need to go deep into the directory structure and play around with text files. 6. I find OS X less intuitive than Windows XP, perhaps because I've grown up with Windows. My advice: avoid the Mac Mini. Either don't make the switch, or invest more and buy a better spec'd machine and be prepared for the odd crash and incompatibility issue.