In these tough economic times the Macalope is sure that it ’s hard to resist the siren ’s song of troll for smash . especially when hits ante up the bills , like they do over at DealMac .
Dear Steve Jobs : The Mac miniskirt Is Crap(tip o ’ the antlers to SS )
The only crap is in this flame bag you left on our doorsill , Jeff Somogyi . rent ’s get right to its “ thesis ” about the updated Mac mini Apple reveal last week .
The one , believably - necessary update they did n’t give this ‘ lil computer ? A cause to survive .
Sheer awesomeness is n’t enough anymore ?
With such a fast CPU , one might assume that the mini is mighty enough to tackle all but the most intensive tasks . And you ’re credibly veracious — for now . The job is , software program will start out to bloat it .
First of all , your use of the transitive here does n’t make any sense . The software bloats , not the ironware . secondly , when do you expect this bloat overload to hap ? Three age is kind of a standard lifecycle for a computer . Do you really remember the Mac mini is n’t live to be useful for that long ? The Macalope hasan other 2006 minithat ’s only just now been outpace by Lion . Still function Snow Leopard like a champ .
Anyway , whatever , dude . More Mac minis for the rest of us .
When you have a desktop , how do you handle this position ? You break open up the subject and replace all or some of the following : CPU , RAM , video card , or hard drive .
CPU ? It ’s too bad it ’s now a cliché to say “ 1998 called and they want their computer hardware lifecycle back ” because , seriously , 1998 actually did call and they really do want it back , and now it just sounds like a jest . But , really , the Macalope just beat off the telephone with them and they ’re pretty ticked off .
When you need to upgrade your Mac mini , you’re able to handily crock up start the case and … interchange just the random access memory . If that was n’t your trouble , well , then you ’re out of circumstances .
in reality , no ! Not only can you upgrade the stock difficult crusade , you could install a second punishing driveway .
We are babble out about the same Mac mini , right ? The one from Apple ? The society whose logo is an apple with a bite out of it ? Because , read this , one might get the printing that you have absolutely no approximation what you ’re talking about .
As an added bonus , this “ screen background replacement ” has drop the optical drive completely .
You know what else it fell ? A hundred Pearl Sydenstricker Buck . You know how much an extraneous SuperDrive is ? $ 79 .
It uses a work - around that enables you to wirelessly synchronise your Mac mini to the DVD driving force of another computer . So … hold back . What ? for to the full use this computer , you have to have another computer ? Hilarious !
Please define “ fully use ” in the context of the current computing era . Because the last time the Macalope used the optic movement in his MacBook Pro was belike two long time ago , when he upgraded to Snow Leopard .
With the promo cloth proudly sport its 2.7 - lb . free weight , you might think that Apple is put the mini as something portable .
Sure , if you have no idea that it take a monitoring gadget , keyboard and mouse . But if you ’re illiterate you ca n’t take the system of weights specs . That ’s a fleck of a catch-22 , is n’t it ?
On the other hand , the Mac miniskirt ’s diminutive weightmightbe of involvement to people in IT department or those who want tostick a mess of them in a rackand do some coolheaded things .
Oh , and since the brassy mini is almost $ 600 , we ’re pretty sure you’re able to easily get a laptop for that Mary Leontyne Price . Or , you be intimate , 80 of them .
Right . alternatively of a Mac mini we ’ll just buy a Windows laptop computer . It’salmost exactly the same thing .
Apple ’s call that it can “ connect … to your HDTV with a single HDMI cable television service ” might go you to believe that it ’s the best option for a home theater microcomputer .
Or it might conduce you to thinkit can link to your high-definition television with a single HDMI cable television . Which is not just a “ call , ” discover as how it actuallycanconnect to your high-definition television with a undivided HDMI cable .
But when you mean about it , it looks more like a jack of all trades , trying too grueling to appeal to too many groups , without doing any one thing particularly well .
Which , when you remember aboutthat , is actually a pretty good way to make an entry - level computer . range a all-encompassing net , because you could never be trusted what people are planning on using it for .
Of of course , praising the Mac mini belike is n’t going to get as many hits , so forget the Macalope even mentioned it .
