Apple hits a grand slam

The Mac mini is a hit out of the park, across the parking lot and into the freeway for Apple. I can easily see buying five or six of these things in the next year. It's exactly the box I'd been hoping Apple would make since I first started using Mac OS X. I can finally move my entire family off that abomination called Windows and onto a system that actually works without all the annoyances. I've been trickling down my old Macs, but that's a slow process. Damn, a $500 headless Mac, it almost doesn't seem real. OK, it's not real as Mac OS X runs like garbage with only 256MB of RAM, but $570 isn't too bad for a 1.2GHz G4 512MB Mac without a built in monitor. And the fact you can practically fit the thing in your pocket ... man I hope Apple can actually produce enough of these things.

Oh yeah, those iPod Shuffle and iWork things are pretty cool too, but I think the Mac mini is one of, if not the most important products Apple has ever released. Not only is it cheap enough that us Mac geeks can buy it for others in our family, it's also cheap enough, small enough and business friendly enough to slot right into all those spots within businesses where there's already a decent flat panel, mouse and keyboard. With Mac OS X the XServe and now Mac Mini, Apple is finally ready to start tackling the business market. Note, I said business market, not enterprise market, of course there might be a few of those around that are enlightened enough to move.

Posted by Kimbro Staken